I'm reading the reviews for the new children's movie, Madagascar. I'm a little horrified, to tell you the truth. One of the main plot lines is following the existential crisis of the main character, a lion, and whether or not he'll decide to eat his friends - a zebra, hippo and giraffe.

I'm tired of having to exist in a world where people see entirely in black and white. It's almost as if people walk around with a death veil over their eyes, covering and diffusing their sight so they can't see in color anymore. We live in The Wizard of Oz, before the Technicolor. There's an evil witch, she's bad. There's Dorothy, she's good. Pick a side, and don't look back.

I've never lived in that world, and I refuse to live in that world. Life is a delicious shade of grey - to each and every situation there is no wrong or right. There is only the representation of your personal ethics. Without allowing for this, people are doomed to walk the earth as the living dead. Check a box, pick a line, zone out.

This definitely spills over into sexual relationships as well. With black and whites, only heterosexual, monogamous, missionary sexuality would be (and, unfortunately, is in most situations) the only accepted sexuality. This doesn't allow for homosexuality, bisexuality, cross-dressing, doggy style, anal fucking, transexuality, bondage, voyeuristic sexuality. And that world is totally fucked.

More on this later, I'm getting sleepy.

This entry was posted by Mellie, on Thursday, May 26, 2005.