Kind of funny to see all this discourse about literacy and then catch a south park rerun from 2008 that makes extended references to and quotes shirley jackson’s the lottery. Like yeah wow people did used to read.
that awful era in the early 2010s of buzzfeed articles and tumblr posts criticizing the disney princesses for not being woke enough has done so much damage to the brand like you have people genuinely thinking that ariel and belle arent feminist princesses
I really hate when people misremember the plots of Disney movies and then get mad at the thing they misremembered. Ariel didn’t become human for Eric!! She wanted to be human the whole time!! He was just a bonus/inciting incident.
And mind you, none of them were crying over a man, they were crying because they wanted the freedom to live their lives the way they chose, and I think that’s what makes their stories even more beautiful.