Why it is important to never sacrifice yourself for a man you are the PRIZE👑

RadioactiveJoy · 2020-07-07T03:22:21+00:00

Dude no that’s not the point of the story. Mermaids like about 300 years but they have no souls, so when they die there’s no heaven for them they just turn into sea foam. But if they can get a mortal to love them and marry them they will get a soul of their own. So she wants to live forever and goes to a sea witch who tells her her plan is stupid but tells her she can make a potion that will give her legs. But! The transformation will be incredibly painful and her feet will feel like knives and her feet will bleed (a them with Anderson) she would also have to sacrifice her voice and gets her tongue cut out. Also there’s a time limit and death if she doesn’t succeed in time (forgot the time scale) But she wants a soul so she takes the potion anyway.

She’s only 15 when she transforms, she can’t talk and has no idea how the world works. So when she finds the prince he takes care of her. But the prince is older and it’s more of a platonic/little sister type relationship to him all the while the adventures he takes her on makes her fall in love with him more. Again her goal is getting a soul not a man, but she catches feels. During this time the prince meets a princess that he mistakes for the woman that saved him during the storm and they plan to get married.

Ariel is participating in the wedding even dances at the after party. This is also the last day of her live because of the magic and she takes in the ocean as she braces to die into nothingness when her sisters show up. They traded their hair for a special knife. If “Ariel” kills the prince and drips his blood on her legs she can become a mermaid again and possibly live another 285 years.

She’s absolutely terrified of dying but she loves the prince and can’t do it and tosses herself into the ocean expecting to turn into sea foam. Instead she lifted up into the sky by the daughters of the air. Beings who earn souls through doing good deeds. Because “Ariel” saves the prince from drowning and didn’t kill him when it benefited her she became a daughter of the air like them. They are angels in purgatory and they get out by witnessing/influencing good deeds.

Which is the moral part I guess telling kids to be good so more angles will get into heaven type stuff. But the little mermaid was an adventurer she wanted to live where the humans did and explore a new world and “live” forever. She did what she had to get what she wanted and like any adventure she was put through the ringer. Again all of it was her choice. The prince was a means to an end for her to do what she wanted and in the end she found her happy ending. a destiny that she can control and earned through her own merit and not bestowed upon her by the prince like she originally planned. She moved beyond him.

Her journey was brutal but all of Anderson stories the hero suffers a lot. The ugly duckling is dark AF. You also have to consider that the little mermaid is Anderson and the prince was his former lover who was getting married to a woman. Anderson sent him this story with a note talking about how he loved him like a woman and how their affair had to remain a secret. The whole story was a love letter from one man to another.

So obviously there’s a lot going on. The prince wasn’t bad, The little mermaid wasn’t naive, Anderson was hella gay. Take what you will. The end.

ethnicallyabiguous · 2020-07-07T02:11:41+00:00

Oh man the symbolism is perfect. The ocean is a symbol of the heart and creatures who dwell within are symbols of emotions. The so called prince gaslights her to stop being “so emotional” and become more “grounded” like him. It’s painful because she isn’t herself. Then he leaves her for someone else who might be “more authentic”. Talk about a tale as old as time. 🧐😩😒

skyerippa · 2020-07-07T06:52:51+00:00

Oh look it’s me 😂

outside-perception · 2020-07-07T02:33:54+00:00

One of the most beloved childhood stories back home and we often forget this.

onthechainwaxx · 2020-07-07T04:18:49+00:00

I have sacrificed far too much for men in the past and I am really struggling to not berate myself over it. I know it's not my fault, in most of the cases they were abusive and I was still buying into society's bullshit, but ugh. Never ever again.

bt21shooky · 2020-07-07T09:27:58+00:00

I really like Louise O'Neill's "The Surface Breaks" which is a feminist re-telling of The Little Mermaid, with many details of the original version including all the mutilation she goes through and leading her to despair when she realises she's put herself through this for someone she in reality barely knew and didn't "love" her. The ending isn't a happy one but it does allow her a chance to fight back

crypytotoads · 2020-07-07T14:24:29+00:00

All "stories" like this have been copied and arrange their original shape. They have been twisted to keep people from thinking for themselves. So many anti women messages and tropes, I can't even watch shit like this it makes me ill. Even the brothers Grimm did their key part to fuck up our collective storytelling heritage. I believe they were either paid or blackmailed by the church to do so.

There's a reason why do many people and children can't swallow this kind of bullshitting and call it fairy tales.

Title	Why it is important to never sacrifice yourself for a man you are the PRIZE👑
Author	Chantelmorris345
Upvotes	410
Comments	16
Date	July 7, 2020 1:51 AM UTC (6 years ago)
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