OH, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Hey guys! How are you?

I didn’t post anything last week, sorry about that, because I was so busy and this week too actually but I’ll do those stuff later.

So I did get a bunch of suggestions, some are about tips, like life tips, travel tips and relationship/dating tips, and some ask me opinion about Donald Trump and I replied to her by saying “You’re fired!”...haha....and also some suggested me to talk about the Equinox, all I could say is, God, it’s hot out here.

But what I decided to talk about, which some of you suggested, is about Beauty and The Beast. This is not a movie review because I haven’t seen it and probably won’t be able to, but it’s about the topic that’s been on the internet. I’m not sure if this topic is worldwide or it’s just here in Malaysia, and if it’s not worldwide and you have no idea what I’m talking about, just bare with me.

Some of you might already know that the new Beauty and The Beast movie will probably not be showing in cinemas in Malaysia because of the gay-related issue. I’m not 100% sure on whether it was a scene that shows that a couple of the characters are gay or was it in a song because there a lot of uncertain information regarding this. In conclusion, there is a gay character in the new Beauty and The Beast movie.

Actually it’s not just Malaysia, there’s another country or state in US that banned the movie, if I’m not mistaken. I read it on the online news last week and that’s the time I found out about this issue.

Some people feels like Malaysia shouldn’t make this as an issue and just approve it, but some feels that Walt Disney shouldn’t have create a gay character because it’s not necessary and since it’s a fairytale and children will watch it. And they should just cut the scene for the sake of those countries that disapproved the gay scene.

Anyway, I’m not gonna pick any side and I’m not saying this to play safe but that’s just who I am, I don’t like picking side unless I know that the 1 side is wrong because I have tried pick a side and it backfired me. And I also believe that both sides have their own reason for what they do or did.

So here’s my opinion on this matter.

What my country did, the review and the request for cutting out the gay scene are unfair for those LGBTQ+ community. It shows as if Malaysia doesn’t accept the fact that there are a lot of LGBT community out there. Which is wrong, we are aware of the existence.

In other hand, the reason why Malaysia’s government decided to do that is because Malaysia is a Muslim country, though a lot of people said that we don’t practice Islam and that a lot of other religion is also a Malaysian and that some gays are also Muslim. Maybe it is true, but that doesn’t mean the government has to change our label to being a Non-Muslim country.

What Walt Disney did, creating a gay character, for me, I agree with some people opinion, that it is not really necessary. Why not just keep the sexuality of the characters the same as the original? The old characters have no flaws, so why change? And why not just cut the scene for those countries who oppose?

At the same time, I understand why Walt Disney did it. They wanted to show that LGBT exist and that they don’t always live in a sitcom or drama, their live involve around action movie or horror and even fairytale. Yes kids will watch fairytale and they will be curious to know more but we have to expose to them anyway and Walt Disney feels like the best way is through this medium.

And regarding the not cutting the scene, I think they feel like those countries need to accept the LGBTQ+ community and that they might even live in that country. If Walt Disney agree to cut the scene, it seems like they are not determine on what they believe in.

So yeah, this is what my opinion is about the issue.

And I just realize how serious I am today.

*Pretending to be an anchorman*

“We are back on the breaking news”

Anyway....

Why do I suddenly feel like saying the word ‘Anyway’ is cute??

*Looking up*

*Wondering*

Anyway, that’s all I got for you this week. Thank you so much for your suggestions.

So this week I wanna know what do you think regarding this matter? Do you agree with me? Or not? And keep sending your suggestion for my next week’s post.

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Love Always,
Zac

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