DISSECTING FAIRY TALES
POSTED AT 11:19 PM

hephaestus

Fairy tales are not actually far from what is real.

‘Cinderella and the Glass Slipper’ is not actually a tale about a stepmother mistreating her stepchild, or how kindhearted women like Cinderella are rewarded for being good.  No!  I think it’s a story of how we can use love as a reason to mask our motives to find a lifetime partner who can almost give us the entire world.  I mean, do you really think Cinderella loved the prince because of that midnight dance?  Cinderella married the prince not because the slipper fits, but because he is rich.  He is financially stable.  He’ll be a good provider.  If we are going to put Cinderella in year 2008, I think she’ll be surfing the net, chatting with Westerners until midnight until she finds the one person who can give her a green card.

And what about ‘Beauty and the Beast’?  If you think it’s a very romantic story because it proves that love looks beneath the surface, you are dead wrong.  If I may recall, at the end of the story the beast was turned back to a handsome prince which means humans fall in love not because we really accepted the other person’s entire character including the flaws, but because we want to change something.  A lot of people these days go into relationships with shut eyes, praying and hoping their partners would eventually change and become better persons.  And maybe this is where divorce, annulment and legal separation comes in.

‘The Little Mermaid’ will not be crossed out from my list.  I am referring to the real story of the Little Mermaid, and not the Disney version.  In the original story, the mermaid traded her voice for feet hoping that she can finally be with her prince, but alas, despite her attempts the prince married another woman.  Her sisters decided to trade their hair for a dagger which she must use to kill the prince to get her fins back.  But because of her love, she decided to jump off the boat and was turned into sea foam.  This is a really tragic story.  In my opinion, the voice symbolizes something that is very valuable.  Mermaids are known for their great singing voices.  Imagine, trading something so special just for love.  If I am going to put this in a more modern and realistic context, I would say the voice is an object representing something that each woman treasures the most — her virginity.  A lot of teenager girls would commit premarital sex not because condoms are readily available in different flavors and textures but because they thought giving it to the man they love would make them stay.  Unfortunately, with our ever changing world becoming more liberal-minded and less traditional, virginity may not even get close to a mermaid’s singing voice.

BLAME IT ON THE CONDOM
POSTED AT 12:04 AM

hephaestus

WARNING:  This post is not for the narrow-minded.

This is just my opinion.

Why would people, especially the religious leaders, blame the increase in sexual activities and promiscuity of this generation to the sale of condoms?  I mean, condoms are just condoms.  We can burn all the condoms in the world and still the world will bear witness to unwanted pregnancies, illicit sexual activities, and all sorts of sexually related moral disintegration.  Yes, I have to agree that the sale of condoms pushes an individual to commit immoral sexual activities, but still, I believe the issue is not actually the sale of the condom or the condom itself, the issue that should be addressed is — what pushes a person to buy that condom and commit what is called an immoral sexual activity.

The problem is not the condom, I think.  The problem lies in the inadequate guidance of parents, and proper control of printed materials.  Parents, nowadays, are too busy.  They cannot afford to sit down with their growing children and give them a more proper sex education.  Without proper guidance, teens get their knowledge on sex through friends, magazines, and websites.  And like a dry sponge, they would absorb everything that they learn, without even bothering to filter any unnecessary information.

But then again, I think sex is really not something that an average family would talk about.  It seems like the word itself is cursed.  We have a different suggested meaning for sex — it’s bad.  Sex is not bad.  It’s not an evil thing.  Without it, we won’t even be here.  The only thing ‘bad’ about sex is abusing it.  Teenagers (and some adults) equate love with sex, which I think should not be the case.  Although in cases of married couples (for a more moral perspective) sex implies love; it does not follow, however, that sex is love.

Another reason for the increased libido of this generation is because sex is actually a commodity.  It sells!  It’s everywhere!  Have you seen the ads these days?  People are always half-naked if not naked at all.  Products are sold through erotic images.  Magazines with sexual contexts are selling like hotcakes.  And since it is everywhere, it stimulates our mind in a way that we forget that there is actually a moral obligation attached to sex.

So what am I trying to point out in this post?  That people should not blame inanimate objects for the wrong and stupid things they have been doing, or what this generation is committing.  Humans are the ones doing the thinking, not some piece of lubricated latex.