SIM Ep 313 Chops 137: The (feminist) little mermaid

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The Little Mermaid is a much-loved fairy Hans Christian Andersen tale that became a Disney film classic. But boy oh boy is it problematic. Author Louise O’Neill has written The Surface Breaks a cracking retelling of the story, in which our protagonist learns a few things about the silencing of women, and the sea witch is truly a hero for our times. Louise chats to our Mickey about weak but controlling men, strong but ostracised women, and the joys and strengths of self-acceptance.

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0:22.2	This episode of the Standard Issue Podcast is sponsored by A.J. Bell Money Matters, helping women
0:27.6	to feel good investing. No doubt you'll have heard us talk about the gender pay gap, but did you know
0:32.2	there's also a gender investment gap in
0:34.7	the UK of 1.65 trillion pounds. So after spending our whole working lives worse off
0:42.3	the men through a lack of pension, savings and investments,
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1:13.5	Listen to it wherever you found this podcast. A.J. Bell Money Matters, helping women to
1:17.8	feel good investing. Standard issue for all women. Oh, hi, Mickey here.
1:34.0	Welcome to this week Sunday Chops, in which the Little Mermaid discovers feminism.
1:38.0	I shit you not.
1:39.0	Author Louise O'Neill has written The Surface Breaks,
1:42.0	a cracking retelling of the Hans Christian Anderson
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