An alert reader noticed something interesting at the margin of that Instagram photo that Susie Green, now-former CEO of Mermaids, posted a few days ago. Green added in the text of her post that the dog was scheduled for neutering at the vet.
Except that she casually, flippantly referred to cutting his “nuts” off. One imagines her saying it in the same tone that she referred to her son Jackie’s micropenis from the early puberty blockade she had installed to ease her husband’s homophobic anxiety about the child’s toy preferences.
Although the background is blurry, you can still make out that this is an actual Disney product. One that seems rather chilling, given her glib attitudes about sterilizing children. It’s a stuffed bear version of Ursula, the underwater witch who offers Ariel, the Little Mermaid of franchise fame, a devil’s bargain: legs to walk on land in exchange for her voice.
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