LogFAQs > #968061742

On one hand, the live-action remakes tend to suck and Disney has a track record of having very surface-level representation in their movies. This is better than the slew of "first gay characters" in Beauty and the Beast, Star Wars and the MCU, but I'm somewhat wary because of how terrible Disney's track record has been with these things.

On the other hand, it really is harmless and I'm so fucking sick of the dumbfuck troll takes about "redhead erasure". It feels like "great replacement" bullshit, where they pretend to uphold the cause of redheads as a minority whose few visible role models are being erased in favour of other ethnic groups, when the real point of concern is "ThEyRe bLaCkWaShInG tHe ChArAcTeRs!!!! AfFiRmAtIvE aCtIoN!!!!!!!". It's really fucking stupid. I genuinely feel like those people are the same shit-for-brains making jokes about gingers having no souls and shit back in the 2000's, it's so transparent what they're doing.

They made the same disingenuous horseshit comments about Annie, they did it with Titans, and they've been doing it with the Little Mermaid. I'm so sick of this shit.

Every iteration of the Little Mermaid still exists. Even if this movie is terrible, the first one will exist. People are excited for this movie, there's nothing fucking wrong with having black mermaids, shut the fuck up. People are going as far as to explain that mermaids couldn't be black because they would be too far underwater to develop melanin. Like suspend your disbelief you drooling moron. It's a fucking kids movie about mermaids.

Edit: this post isn't pointed at anyone itt, it's just a general rant about this sort of stuff going on.