Comments on: Mermaids

By: Ms Q

Ms Q — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:25:55 +0000

I wonder if Ariel ever got her period….. 😉

By: A Girl in Canada

A Girl in Canada — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:55:56 +0000

For me The Little Mermaid is the story of a girl who takes a chance on love and finds a new kind of happiness and independence. While the prince has to always be reminded of what could have been and endure a lifetime of sorrow. But I read a translated version from czech so it might have a slightly different ending. Namely the prince sees the mermaid only when it is too late to recipricate her love.

By: kate

kate — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:15:11 +0000

are you kidding? i hate this story.

By: tartandtreacly

tartandtreacly — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:47:59 +0000

Those who are into Japanese animation might want to check out The Mermaid Saga, a rather dark and occasionally gruesome series about people who ate mermaid flesh in the hopes of living forever. It gave me the creeps when I watched it as a kid.

I recall the mermaids in the series were portrayed as rather nasty, spiteful beings, and Bad Things inevitably happened to those who looked to them for a meal.

By: Dru

Dru — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:58:00 +0000

^ oh, Paddington. I loved him so much because he was small and brown and foreign like me, and we both liked orange marmalade (though I’m not a bear).

Also by the time I was eight, I liked Roald Dahl best. There’s a gleeful sense of nasty running through a lot of his stories, and something about that really got me – I mean, who doesn’t like the idea of nasty aunts flattened by a giant peach? Or horrible principals scared out of their wits?

By: Andra

Andra — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:30:37 +0000

I thought all so called fairy stories were damned scary.
The only stuff I liked was Winne the Pooh – and, I’m delighted to say I still do.
I also love Paddington bear but he came later, when my own son was little.
All the Brothers Grimm and the rest scared the crap out of me.
I love Oscar Wilde’s children’s stories but I read them for the first time when I was adult.
I dunno know about them for children. I’ll have to read them again and find out.

By: Alias Clio

Alias Clio — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:02:34 +0000

But did she actually die at the end? (I told you I didn’t remember the story very well!) Or was it just that, having given up her ability to speak in order to gain a soul so that she could marry the prince, the prince abandoned her anyway? I thought that was the tragedy/triumph of that story, but I could be wrong.

I must admit that when I was a child I did not like having Hans Christian Andersen’s stories read aloud to me. Their sadness used to hang over me for days like a pea-soup fog. Oscar Wilde’s stories too.

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:32:48 +0000

Alias Clio – It’s great to hear from you! I’m aware of the soul part of the bargain. But what good is having a soul if you have to be dead to get one?

By: Alias Clio

Alias Clio — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:22:51 +0000

My memory of The Little Mermaid, which may be wrong because it’s so long since I looked at the story, is that those readers who interpret it primarily as a story about giving up everything for love – the sexual kind – are misreading it.

The Mermaid may have lost her prince, but her bargain was that she gained a soul when she gave up her voice and her underwater life to be permitted to marry him. That was the point. In fact, by the story’s lights, romantic “love” wasn’t worth much, but gaining a soul was.

By: Andra

Andra — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:49:36 +0000

Oh Juri, I’m so sorry.
Still, think of the poor mermaids. No genitals at all. It’s tits or nothing.
You’ll just have to do the best with what you’ve got.