“My best feature is my voice, so I sold it for plastic surgery.”

20 Jul 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in CTG, characters, girl stuff, hilarious, movies, music, 1 Comments

The Little Mermaid was one of CTG’s favourite movies from approximately 1989 – 1993. That’s a lot of begging my mom to make me a mermaid tail / forcing my friends to ‘play Little Mermaid in the pool’ / having a ‘mermaid party’ and then insist that I be the only mermaid and that everyone else dress as crabs or fish / accusing my tomboy pal of ‘being mean’ when he refused to believe what I told him about how I was ‘actually a mermaid’ and was ‘pretending to be human so my parents don’t get angry’…

One can only imagine that this movie had a huge role in shaping the CTG consciousness. This is an ‘alternative interpretation’ of the messages within The Little Mermaid, which I don’t really have a problem with. It’s good to know the timeless values of manipulating your friends, running away from your parents, talking to men like babies, hoarding and stealing, changing your appearance to ‘look prettier’.. etc are relevant and accessible even without the broadway song-and-dance production (although that’s a part we do very much enjoy).

This is fun and all, but more videos might be tedious. So here’s a handy summary of some of the classic super girlpower messages you’ll come across in the ‘mainstream storytelling media’ from the last couple of centuries (yeah we could blame Disney but they didn’t even make the stories up… think that was that Anderson bro. And those Grimm bros.) :