Isn’t Ariel 16 in the movie?
googles the character
Yup, she was 16 in the first movie.
Also she stayed married to Prince Eric and had a kid? I… didn’t need to know that.
I read a conspiracy theory that Disney movies were designed to teach girls that marrying older men while you’re a child is normal.
I mean, back when, it wasnt uncommon to be marrying young. Cinderella came out in 1950, a time where women didnt go to college, and it wasnt uncommon to be married right after high school to someone who could provide for you, would could easily be 22. Thats for everyday people. I imagine being royalty, where you didnt really have to go to high school or college, shakes those ages up even more
I wouldnt go as far as to call it a conspiracy theory because that wasnt out of the ordinary at the time
A conspiracy among whom?
Who were the folks in a dark room saying, ‘Listen boys: we’re here to uphold outdated gender norms. But to work, it’s all gotta be hush-hush, capiche?’
Didn’t she let him die in the ocean though?
wat?
Leo dumps girls as soon as they turn 26. It’s a thing. It’s weird. So, we make fun of it.
It is a lot weirder to obsess over the dating habits of consensual adults.
Our definition of consent and adult is arbitrary though.
Its 18 now for most places but for most of history you were considered an adult the moment you hit puberty.
Scientifically we know that your brain is still developing “adolescence” till their mid twenties. We have disconnected this term from the legal definition of adults but:
“He is dating pre-adolescent women” is a scientifically correct statement and definitely an uncomfortable patterns to keep repeating.
We also know it’s personal. Its entirely possible for a 16 year old to have a matured sense of sexual consent while someone else at 20 does not. So which one is then ethically more ok to fuck?
EDIT: one very bad mixup of words.
“I love those 25 year olds. I get older, they stay the same age.”
c/outOfTheLoop
Did he break up with someone recently?
He has an agreement with every girl he dates that they will break up when the girl turns 26.
I don’t know how explicit the agreement is but the next one certainly can’t say she’s unaware of the system.
I think he said in an interview somewhere he has no desire to or intention of settling down and starting a family. And he has this idea that women will start to want to do that in their mid-to-late 20s, so he makes it clear to the women he dates that it won’t last. They get to live his lifestyle and whatnot for a few years, then he moves on. He claims to be pretty upfront about it.
The older he gets the creepier it gets, but I suppose if everyone is informed and consenting it isn’t ethically wrong.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/10wt86h/leonardo_dicaprio_still_refuses_to_date_a_woman/ (sorry for Reddit link)
