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So @gayfergus sent me these amazing pictures of two rare Disney Dolls that came out in the 90s of a couple of Mermaid girls meant to be Ariel's friends
Kayla:
And Shelly:
Don't know why her box art tail and shell colors are different then the dolls but gotta say I adore how she has a underwater Walkman xD
Nothing says 90s Teen like a Walkman! Even if its under the sea and before the invention of electronic x)
I dunno the 'Swimman” probably works with magic or 'eel-lectricity' or something xD
Looking up these two led me to find Ariel’s other “Cool Teen” friend (my gosh that’s so ‘Hello fellow kids’):
Pearl!
Who apparently has a “Shell-o-phone” (can’t be a Shellphone cuz it has a seaweed cord I love it xD)
Also Cool Teen Ariel apparently came with under water Pizza xD
But I love that this adds to Ariel have more friends/peers and that so many of them are POC!
So here’s a little doodle of them all, including Urchin and Gabriella from the tv show
“transition poses some ethical questions. Such as, from what age should you be allowed to irreversibly change your body.“
This of course completely ignores the fact that puberty makes irreversible changes to your body. But let us just rephrase the question: “from what age do you gain bodily autonomy?” Now it gets very easy to answer: From the moment you’re fucking born.
I’m sorry, I’m reblogging this twice in a row it is that important
Stand up and say it again for the people in the back row.
This is all completely true and correct, of course, but on the topic of changes that irreversibly change a child’s body, prithee, go and talk to a fucking ballet dancer.
If you start ballet at 16, you are too old to ever expect to be able to do it seriously. If you start at 12 you’re too old. If you want to do ballet as a serious thing, as a career, you need to start at like eight years old or even younger, because your bones and joints need to be trained while they’re still flexible in order for you to be able to perform many of the required motions and stances of ballet. In particular, you need to be able to perform turnout of the hips, but all of your joints in your legs and feet will be affected, and this irreversibly changes your body.
And yet! Nobody talks about this as a negative thing! Little girls say they want to be ballet dancers, and if their parents have enough money, that’s what they get to be! Does it cause problems in later life? Yeah, sometimes! Often, even! But nobody talks about that because it’s a thing for cis people to do and so naturally it’s all fine!
Go and talk to a fucking ballet dancer.
Even common everyday sports do this.
If you play soccer for a few consecutive years sometime between the ages of 8 and 15 it will permanently affect your knees.
If you play a lot of soccer and for longer it will affect the entirety of legs, muscle and bone, and not for the better.
Almost every soccerplayer in the world has a shortening of the back of the thigh muscle that will cause pain as they age.
Most develop severe knee problems by the age of 30.
People don’t age out of sports in general around 30 because they’ve “passed their prime physical condition” in the sense that age has taken it’s toll, but in the sense that the sport itself has taken it’s toll.
And yet, no one is advocating against letting children play sports.
My brother started playing PeeWee football at 10 years old. TEN. And you can call it ‘flag football’ or ‘no tackle football’ or ‘limited contact all you want, they’re putting 10 year Olds in a helmet and pads because it’s a contact sport.
It will always be, accidentally or on purpose, a contact sport.
He played until his college team interfered with his education, and then quit. He was 20. For ten years, he played football. He had 2 major concussions that I know of. One required hospitalization, one required round the clock monitoring.
That’s what we know about.
And from what we now know about CTE and traumatic brain injury, that second severe concussion was enough to escalate his risk of Altzheimers, dementia and associated disorders. It may help explain his extreme anxiety in his early twenties. It might have contributed to his depressive episodes.
By the age of 19, his choice of sport may have changed him far more than hormone blockers or a binder. How many people argue boys shouldn’t be able to make that choice?
Frappuccinos aren’t that good, to be honest.
i veeeerry rarely see fat gay men depicted as feminine or delicate and that’s disappointing because hey! those ppl exist and are very underrepresented
Not to be like that but fucking vote for democrats down ballot. The less republicans in congress, the less republicans as governors and attorneys general, as school board members and sheriffs and district attorneys, the better.