Anyone who thinks Ariel gave up her voice for a man hasn't paid attention to the first 15 minutes of the film, Georgia Aspinall argues. Read more on Grazia.
after determining that the Disney film sets a bad example for young girls. It comes as the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid premiered to rave reviews from critics despite being trolled with ‘review bombing’ bots that initially caused the IMDB rating to plummet.
Faith isn’t the first celebrity to share such a sentiment. Idina Menzel has expressed a similar concern about The‘giving up her voice for a man’, and Keira Knightley made headlines in 2018 when she told Ellen DeGeneres that she banned her daughter from seeing a number of Disney princess films including The Little Mermaid because they teach girls to be dependent on a man or give up too much for them. Demi Lovato too called Ariel ‘some little hoe mermaid’ in an interview in 2014.
Rewatching the original myself this weekend, I too was struck by how off the mark these takes on The Little Mermaid are. In The Little Mermaid, Ariel is introduced to the audience as a rebellious, brave teen who explores the deep sea and fights off sharks in order to find out more about the world beyond her own.
I’m no Disney adult, but I can say that I was obsessed with The Little Mermaid as a child – I quite literally wanted to be Ariel. Did I grow up to believe I should sacrifice all my dreams and powers for a man? Quite the opposite. My mum will tell you I was always a raging little feminist, mermaid tail in tow.
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