I’m so happy Meeshell isn’t in a wheelchair, like all the able body people wanted acting like it’d count as representation, a mermaid in a wheelchair is NOT disabled representation. A wheelchaired mermaids body is an able body. The only reason she’d be in a wheelchair is because she shouldn’t be out of water but if you put her back where she belongs she’s perfectly capable of all movement. There’s no magical pool that I can jump in to fix my cerebral palsy. It’s insulting to actual disabled people to say that’d be representation. Put Raven in a wheelchair, or Apple or any human character. Actually make a disabled character, don’t turn the need for a wheelchair into a cute quirk.
I don’t really wanted Meeshell in a wheelchair, so I’m glad she isn’t but I want a great explanation on the fact Meeshell is on Earth and she has legs AND a voice… it’s totally against her tale, if she has the both on Earth she doesn’t have a story anymore, so maybe if she was in mermaid form in a wheelchair with her voice it could be more…right with her tale, or I don’t know in human form but without voice ? (a character who speaks with the sign language could be kinda great too..)
Mattel seriously has to give to us big explanations about Meeshell’s existence…
