I am outraged. My Ariel is half Samoan, half Puerto Rican and nothing else.BMX Bandit said:
TRIGGER WARNING
Live version of little mermaid on ABC tonight had black Ursula & half Hawaiian half Puerto Rican Ariel
I am outraged. My Ariel is half Samoan, half Puerto Rican and nothing else.BMX Bandit said:
TRIGGER WARNING
Live version of little mermaid on ABC tonight had black Ursula & half Hawaiian half Puerto Rican Ariel
The real triggering will come from millennial husbands dealing with wives gushing over Uncle Jesse as the chef.BMX Bandit said:
TRIGGER WARNING
Live version of little mermaid on ABC tonight had black Ursula & half Hawaiian half Puerto Rican Ariel
Brian Earl Spilner said:
But what is your problem with the casting? Why the issue with her?
That might be Shaggy's next album.MuckRaker96 said:
They should just hire a real crab, record him doing crab noises, then use auto tune to make it sound like it's English. Otherwise it's specie-est
third coast.. said:
Hyphenated names.....even worse on young men.
Vince Blake said:
They should have her sing WAP.
You know, because she's in the ocean.
coconutED said:
This isn't the first time a black actress was cast to play a character with iconic bright red hair.
Now, granted, everybody in that show looked hideous, and canonically, Starfire is an alien with orange/bronze skin, so the situation is a little different here. And yes, the inevitable backlash from Teen Titans fans was labeled "racist" by the usual suspects.
The Porkchop Express said:
I can name 6 of those characters, so I'm going to choose to be 33.3333% repeating offended.
Duncan Idaho said:The Porkchop Express said:
I can name 6 of those characters, so I'm going to choose to be 33.3333% repeating offended.
After knowing which posters are offended by this, I am fully supportive of this trend and hope it continues
The Debt said:
I could answer that question but the truth tends to get me banned in situations like this.Madmarttigan said:
Yeah I look at this thread and have to seriously wonder WGAF about who is cast in this especially since we are predominantly abunch of middle aged dudes
“Representation matters.”
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) September 12, 2022
Black parents on social media are sharing heartwarming videos of their children seeing a Black actress as ‘The Little Mermaid’ for the first time 👇 pic.twitter.com/D1vT7dB7HJ
People are mad that The Little Mermaid is Black? The lady who is also a fish? Who lives under the sea? Whose best friend is a talking crab?
— Lynda Carter (@RealLyndaCarter) September 13, 2022
TCTTS said:The Debt said:
Imagine, for a moment, being a grown, adult man, and posting something like this out of genuine grievance/concern to a public message board.
Image complaining that the lead character of a cartoon made *specifically* for little girls is now a different race than she was in the source material.
Imagine letting that affect your mood or your life in any way, shape, or form.
Imagine how many things had to go wrong, throughout the course of your existence, for you to arrive at such a sad low point.
Than again, this is the same person who I've seen act as a Putin apologist time and again, throughout the Ukraine war, so nothing's surprising, I guess.
TCTTS said:
I just can't get over how dumb and embarrassing this whole thing is…People are mad that The Little Mermaid is Black? The lady who is also a fish? Who lives under the sea? Whose best friend is a talking crab?
— Lynda Carter (@RealLyndaCarter) September 13, 2022