So while we're talking about how bad culture has become the new Disney remake of the Little

Mermaid is out, and I had to choose between going to see it or driving a screwdriver into my

forehead repeatedly, but luckily I had access to the person who may be the greatest expert on

Disney princesses in America, Faith Moore, who is the author of Savian Cinderella, what feminists

get wrong about Disney princesses and how to get it right. She is a freelance writer and editor.

She has a novel coming out with The Daily Wire, this Christmas apparently the jacket looks great,

by the way, and she is also the stay-at-home mother of two of the most attractive and intelligent

boys ever to existed, I think, in the multiverse as far as it is. Faith, it's good to see you.

I'm also your daughter, hi, Adam. Oh my goodness, hi. I'm so exciting. I'm so thrilled to hear that.

Well, you know, I was thinking back, we saw this, I guess the original Little Mermaid came out when

you were maybe seven or eight, and I remember. I was a six, nineteen eight nine, and I remember we

went with a friend of yours and I was sitting next to her father and during the big fight scene when

Ursula became the seawitch, became a giant, I turned to him and said, whispered, this is actually

pretty scary, and he was pinned against his seat with his wide eyed look of terror. How did you

experience the original one? That's sick. That's actually the only scene I remember from that.

I remember that I was six, we went with my best friend, it was raining, I was wearing snowboots,

rainboots, and Ursula became giant and Eric stabbed her with the prow of a boat and her skeleton came

in a flash of lightning, and it was absolutely terrifying. And that's all I remember, but then of

course after that, I mean, that was the summer of playing mermaids. I mean, you know, this is how

you play mermaids, you tie a sheet around yourself, you test your friend to tie the other side,

so you're completely immobilized, you sit on the floor, you wave your arms around like this,

and everybody played mermaids that summer. I mean, that was, so we'd never seen anything like that.

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