In the passage “Mermaids among us today” the quote “The reimagined figure of the mermaid resonates for many today as fluid feminine self possession or playful queerness”. What it implies is that how I see views on people who have that questioning their identity. We do have that question in the back of our mind but where I see it as a interpretation of modern day feminism and it has an impact on our culture. I also see it as a ignorance and it is not society fault for not understanding of the negative side of mermaid culture and Ariel is the face of what Mermaids are that is just a cover of what is hidden.

From pages xxi to xxii the quote ” In the late twentieth century, riding the second wave of Western Feminism, Andersen’s Little Mermaid became Disney Ariel, and her voice and songs memorably asserted her double betweenness as an adolescent mermaid”. It tells me that their way of telling that identity is more than just one image that is a famous Icon such as Ariel. Another series that took off as mermaid is that the latest Disney movie Luca where it is about how mermaids are not accepted and not viewed positively by having a look of disgusted. It is being done by showing how representation is not just a musical about feminine ideal that people look up to and wanting to become a mermaid even though it has been showed to be a ideal creature.

This is relevant because in our modern culture our identities have lately been shifting around and people aren’t really sure what is real and what is not. The meaning of this is that it has been a growing trend to defy the norm of being normal to some degree. Mermaids controversy has added quite a lot of layers of knowing how they are depicted. Illusions has been quite taken as a form of dreaming to be a fictional character who may or may not have existed. There has been stories been told about mermaids show people have grown to only known or never known about the truth behind mermaids themselves.