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David In Indy:

--- Quote from: opinionista on September 10, 2007, 06:46:13 am ---That video is definitely disturbing and shouldn't be watched by a sever year old. However, I disagree with you when you say things have changed. I think kids from all generation have been exposed to violence in one way or another. Maybe the ones who grew up during the 50s didn't see too much violence on TV but they sure played with toy guns and stuff like that. I grew up during the 70's and I recall all those shows you mention. But I also remember the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood movies and how the kids from my neighborhood wanted to play cowboys and indians, with toy guns. The liked to play to kill one another, steal women and all that.

Also, cartoons are extremelly violent and so are fairy tales. IMO no matter what you do, it is very hard to shield your kid from the reality of violence, because it is everywhere. TV, literature, games everywhere. The best thing to do is being realistic about it, teach them what violence means, and what can it do to them and to others. IMO that is.

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Hi Natali!!

Well, I still say there is a huge difference between a mouse hitting a cat upside his head with a frying pan in a cartoon, and this terrible video I posted. Yes, we saw violence on television when we were kids, but it is so much worse now. And it's ALL THE TIME. We can't turn our telvisions on, even in the daytime, and not see it. It wasn't like this back in the 60's. Not to this degree. Not even close.

And it's not just the violence. I can't imagine what folks would have thought in the 60's if they saw a commercial on television about vaginal dryness or errectile dysfunction. People didn't even talk about these things amongst themselves, much less on television! I consider myself a very liberal person, but I suppose I'm a bit conservative when it comes to this. Maybe it's my midwestern upbringing. But I don't think seven year olds should be subjected to these things; especially ALL THE TIME like they are in today's world.

David In Indy:

--- Quote from: jstephens9 on September 10, 2007, 02:41:42 pm ---
But yes David I do definitely see where you are coming from. What you didn't watch "The Munsters?" I never will forget that when I was little I had a nightmare that they captured me and wouldn't let me out of their house  :D

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I watched The Munsters too, but I was more of an Addam's Family kid. Boy that sounds like a freaky dream! That sounds like the kind of dreams I sometimes had as a kid.

opinionista:

--- Quote from: David on September 10, 2007, 04:22:18 pm ---Hi Natali!!

Well, I still say there is a huge difference between a mouse hitting a cat upside his head with a frying pan in a cartoon, and this terrible video I posted.
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I'm going to go OT to reply to your post so I apologize. I wish cartoons were just about a mouse hitting a cat with frying pan. I suppose you talk about Tom &Jerry. What I remember was those two trying to kill each other in every possible way. Sometimes, Jerry would take the skin off Tom with a knife. Yosemite Sam is always pissed off trying to kill bugs bunny with shot guns. Cartoons are extremelly violent. I agree that children are more exposed to violence in the media today than before they did before because of technology, but in terms of content, in my opinion, things haven't changed that much. I'm enclosing a link about violence in cartoons. It has more to do with smoking but it is relevant to this discussion. The author talks about old shows that were targeted to children and were very violent. Like the Three Stooges.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060828/COLUMNIST23/608280443

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