Now People Are Identifying as Mermaids

If you can identify as a member of the opposite sex or some other race, why not identify as a different species — even if that species doesn’t actually exist?

When Caitlin Nielsen told her kindergarten teacher she wanted to be a mermaid when she grew up, the kids laughed at her.

People are laughing even harder now that Caitlin is 32 years old and still hasn’t grown up.

She is part of a ‘secret’ community of people who identify as part-human, part-fish and call themselves merfolk.

Caitlin had long dreamed of being a mermaid and watching the Disney movie The Little Mermaid did nothing to ease her aspirations.

So in 2015 the biology graduate quit her job so she could focus full-time on her real ambition: being a full-time mermaid.

You can see why we need a guaranteed minimum income like Finland is trying out. It isn’t always easy to pay the mortgage on your swimming pool while devoting yourself full time to pretending to be a mermaid.

Caitlin isn’t alone:

There is a growing community across America of people who identify as ‘mer’ and spend their time donning elaborately decorated silicone tails that can cost up to $3,500 and take a year to make, swim in the sea and swimming pools and attend mer-conventions across the U.S.

A self-proclaimed mermaid helps us understand the phenomenon of identifying as something other than what you are:

Environmental policy student Tessie was inspired to become a mermaid ever since she attended a magical mermaid school in the exotic Philippines three years ago.

Once she slides her tail on and becomes Mermaid Essie, she says her worries disappear and the magical feeling of invincibility and power arises.

The 24-year-old said: ‘I have a lot of body insecurities, I think a lot of people do. When I am in my tail I don’t feel insecure anymore. Because it suddenly doesn’t matter what size I am because I am a mermaid and that is what people really focus on.’

If only race impostors like Rachel Dolezal and Shaun King would develop some self-esteem, maybe they could drop their silly games and moonbattery.

For now, pretending to be a mermaid is harmless escapism. Only when people start getting their legs surgically grafted together and their feet lopped off so that fins can be attached will this be a serious threat to sanity, like the transsexual craze that the liberal establishment has been promoting so aggressively.

On a tip from Steve T. Hat tip: Say Uncle.