A benchmark for "normal?" Just what IS that, anymore?
Can't help it. Watched a recent film, "After Yang" the other night, and aside from the fact it was an odd journey that didn't have a decent resolution, it pissed me off.
This is a futuristic film, where we're able to buy humanoid robots. This family wanted their adopted young Chinese daughter to have a babysitter, playmate and mentor who could teach her about her ethnic background and culture, because Caucasian Daddy and androgynous looking black Mommy, are way too involved with their respective careers to provide enough attention to their kid (so why the fuck did they adopt a child?!). That's it in a nutshell, folks.
I'm a live and let live person. I don't give a flying fuck WHO you sleep with, or how homogenized your family is due to your interracially blended choices~ I just think racial mixing on TV commercials, movies and series has become ridiculously gratuitous. I mean, when was the last time YOU saw a TV spot with a white on white or black on black or Asian on Asian couple?!
I'm sorry, I have nothing against interracial marriages. People fall in love, and it's all that should really matter~ because "Love" comes in all shapes, sizes and colors, don't ya know.
I DO however, resent the shit out of being constantly subliminally programmed by the media at large. Some years back, the powers that be wanted to eliminate violent video games, due to the very real potential of de-sensitizing and subliminally programming our children to accommodate, accept and normalize VIOLENT BEHAVIOR.
THOSE games (and any remedy that was suggested to deconstruct this negative influence on our kids) got shot down of course, but look at the world around us today! Teenagers are highjacking your car at gunpoint, and in some larger cities (like Philadelphia) this crime committed by CHILDREN is not only rampant, it is condoned, sanctioned and never punished!
Yes Hollywood, it's fine if you feel a need to indoctrinate us into loving and marrying someone of a different race~ but how about ya QUIT trying to shove it down the throats of your viewing audience? Are you regarding us as morons who haven't figured out yet we 're ALLOWED to love who we love? So STOP all the subliminal programming, will ya? It's ILLEGAL to use subliminal suggestion on viewing audiences, and it always HAS been!