I was watching a documentary about clown fish today when I realized that Nemo's true family It should be very different from the one in the movie "Finding Nemo."
And it seems a shame that we could not enjoy a story that, if it were more suited to the biology of these fish, would have given children the opportunity to meet and appreciate other family models and sexual diversity.
Some characters of children's drawings and stories, normally concealed, give us clues about a non-heterosexual sexual orientation: Epi and Blas, Timon and Pumba and the wonderful transvestite Peakley of Lilo's films. And they can help us prepare children to accept and understand that not everyone is equal in our sexual orientation.
Clown fish are not monogamous. No. A female, the mother, has a male as the main partner but also has a group of other males who live near the main couple and also fertilize the eggs. That is to say Nemo's true family It's polyandric: a mother and several parents.
But it is more, if the female dies as it happened to Nemo's mother, the main male takes his role and changes sex to turn him, in turn, into a female. That is, Marlin would have changed sex.
If the screenwriters had focused on respecting the biology of clownfish, Marlin would have been a transsexual hero, who as a female would have crossed the seas to save her son.
I suppose that if they had been more faithful to biology they would have suffered many criticisms, they would have accused them of immoral (are clown fish immoral?) Or they would not have been so successful, but I would have liked that my son could have seen the story from Nemo's true family: polyamory and a heroic dad-mom transsexual.
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