Last night, I (27F) went to watch the new The Little Mermaid with my male live-in friend (28m).
We had our discussion about the whole "should Ariel stay white"... I personally don't care, and I am excited about the remake. If they had made her Asian or white, I would've been just as ecstatic as I was going to see the remake.
He preferred she stayed white. Which is fine. movie begins, everything is good, but I noticed he wasn't paying much attention to it, shuffling around, looking at me (I can see him in my peripheral). I'm immersed in it, I love Disney movies. Any childhood remakes for that matter and looking forward to how the filmmakers and directors incorporated new ideas and little tweaks.
We get to the part where Prince Eric's mother, Queen Selina, appears on screen. I didn't expect him to have a black mother or a black queen at that. I thought "huh cool, maybe his stepmom, either way, it's fairytale." My friend, on the other hand, scoffed and called it bullshot, "it doesn't make sense.. *scoffs* They're trying to push an agenda..".. I tell him what I thought, "she could be his step-mom and just calls her mom bc they have a bond, and she raised him. ".. he continues to complain about "woke movement" and how they are pushing forced diversity. At this point, I got tired of lightning up the mood since people kept turning around to us. I told him "stfu it's just a fairy tale. People can hear you, and you call your step-dad 'dad' sometimes when sharing stories about him. Why can't it be the case here? " He literally YELLS at me to shut up and not talk about his step-dad because he doesn't call him,"dad. ".. a whole spectacle. We go back and forth, I'm trying to quiet him down, and he's still raising his voice how diversity is being pushed on us.
We had our discussion about the whole "should Ariel stay white"... I personally don't care, and I am excited about the remake. If they had made her Asian or white, I would've been just as ecstatic as I was going to see the remake.
He preferred she stayed white. Which is fine. movie begins, everything is good, but I noticed he wasn't paying much attention to it, shuffling around, looking at me (I can see him in my peripheral). I'm immersed in it, I love Disney movies. Any childhood remakes for that matter and looking forward to how the filmmakers and directors incorporated new ideas and little tweaks.
We get to the part where Prince Eric's mother, Queen Selina, appears on screen. I didn't expect him to have a black mother or a black queen at that. I thought "huh cool, maybe his stepmom, either way, it's fairytale." My friend, on the other hand, scoffed and called it bullshot, "it doesn't make sense.. *scoffs* They're trying to push an agenda..".. I tell him what I thought, "she could be his step-mom and just calls her mom bc they have a bond, and she raised him. ".. he continues to complain about "woke movement" and how they are pushing forced diversity. At this point, I got tired of lightning up the mood since people kept turning around to us. I told him "stfu it's just a fairy tale. People can hear you, and you call your step-dad 'dad' sometimes when sharing stories about him. Why can't it be the case here? " He literally YELLS at me to shut up and not talk about his step-dad because he doesn't call him,"dad. ".. a whole spectacle. We go back and forth, I'm trying to quiet him down, and he's still raising his voice how diversity is being pushed on us.
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10 mo
moved seats after telling him he is embarrassing because he is a grown 28-year-old man acting like that over a live action remake of an animated movie from 1989. After moving seats, he followed me to it, and I moved again 3x, and he followed. I gave up and left to the restroom, came back 10 minutes later after gathering myself, and moved to another seat where he finally left me alone.
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10 mo
If you have reddit, the rest of the story is under r/Luz_Aeternaaa
