People often trot out the old cliché “a leopard never changes his spots”, but just how true is it?
It’s not a well publicised fact but I’m actually half-leopard and I find these statements just plain offensive. Barely a week goes by when I don’t see a sensationalised documentary about a leopard with dirty spots, and it’s nothing more than stereotyping of the worst kind.
I’d like to say for the record that I and all the other leopards that I know change our spots regularly. I actually had a new set fitted last week, even though my last set still had a few thousand miles left in them. I actually wouldn’t be seen dead in my 2009 spots, they’re completely out of fashion already and I have a certain amount of street cred to preserve.
It’s all very frustrating. What seems ridiculous is that if you were going to pick on any faults of a leopard then surely it would be our inability to change our patterns of behaviour. It’s a real problem. I feel doomed to keep making the same mistakes over and over again, but I’m genetically pre-disposed to be like that. Why is this never discussed?
I blame society’s current obsession with aesthetic pleasures and the so-called ‘celebrity culture’. Do yourself a favour, ditch Heat magazine and go and think about a leopard’s real problems.
Thanks for listening.
the leopard,s peppered
with unfavourable press.
they say that they go round
in unsuitable dress.
dirty spots do they wear,
they never do wash’em.
it’s stereotyping,
journalistic phlegm.
so, give them a break,
there very clean creatures,
and them there spots
are their best feature
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