Little mermaid was my favorite -- made me sob. However, even the first time I read it I thought the little mermaid was incredibly stupid. Somehow giving everthing up before you even could talk to the guy-- How was anyone supposed to love you if they never talked to you. That's why I cried.
You got fired, and you still hang around here like a big loser. Why can't he?
Cordelia ,'Chosen'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
beth b - Oct 28, 2009 12:24:59 pm PDT #28377 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
P.M. Marc - Oct 28, 2009 12:25:47 pm PDT #28378 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Don't get me wrong; I think that pretty much all of the fairy tales presented -- Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Goddamn Mermaid Who Gives Up Her Voice For A Dude -- are horrible stories that instill patriarchal values into little girls before they have the ability to reason and see that they're bullshit. Feh.
See, and I think that's why The Disney LM makes me spit fire! Because, damn it, IT IS SUPPOSED TO END POORLY AND SERVE TO WARN YOU ABOUT THAT STUFF.
Laga - Oct 28, 2009 12:25:58 pm PDT #28379 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I remember Penelope Pitstop coming on after Wacky Races.
Cashmere - Oct 28, 2009 12:26:41 pm PDT #28380 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Mulan is the only Disney Princess I can tolerate at the moment. I have yet to see The Princess and the Frog, though, so I'm holding off.
Aims, if it helps, one of Liv's classmates, PUSHED ANOTHER GIRL INTO THE POOL during swim class--when the teacher was too far to grab the fallen child. The girl's mother had to fish her out, sputtering and coughing. There was Big Time Fallout. So at least Em didn't try to drown another kid!
Polter-Cow - Oct 28, 2009 12:27:05 pm PDT #28381 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I think people who don't like The Little Mermaid should watch Princess Tutu, which takes a similar idea (water creature becomes human to woo a man) and makes it way more interesting and awesome.
tommyrot - Oct 28, 2009 12:28:24 pm PDT #28382 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Because, damn it, IT IS SUPPOSED TO END POORLY AND SERVE TO WARN YOU ABOUT THAT STUFF.
Yeah, that's why I liked the HCA story - it had a horribly sad ending!
beth b - Oct 28, 2009 12:31:45 pm PDT #28383 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I HATE the Disney version. So I pretend it is another story.
Cashmere - Oct 28, 2009 12:33:31 pm PDT #28384 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
On the Special Edition DVD of The Little Mermaid, Disney put an animated short of The Little Match Girl on to the disc. DH had never read the story and was completely freaked out by it. He asked me, "What kind of Disney Snuff are you buying?" I told him The Little Mermaid was supposed to end in her death, too, but Disney punked out.
Laga - Oct 28, 2009 12:39:30 pm PDT #28385 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I was going to argue that the little mermaid doesn't die but I guess being sea foam isn't really living.
WindSparrow - Oct 28, 2009 12:43:38 pm PDT #28386 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
The Little Match Girl always made me so sad, and yet I loved it when my mother read it to me.