Gary wrote: > > I am sitting here watching cartoons with the kids and I am amazed at how > violent some of them are. > > For example, Justice League is on (Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, etc). The > league traveled back through time and are g\fighting Germans. They are > clearly killing Germans by blowing up the tanks, trucks and planes that they > are in. > > In my days of cartoons, nobody ever died in the cartoons, to paraphrase the > George Of he Jungle movie, "they just get really big boo-boos"
Bo-ring. I hated those cartoons then, and I hate 'em more now. http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/k/killing-monsters.shtml Kids have a grasp of the difference between make-believe violence (including what they see in TV and movies) and real violence. Should they be allowed to watch Freddy Krueger and Jason at age 5? No, but they shouldn't be isolated from the realities of the world, either. My kids both watch Justice League with me - we watched "The Savage Time" last night, and afterwards, my 5-year old son and I talked about it before he went to bed. Drew knows that a cartoon is a cartoon, and that even if Batman beats up bad guiys in the cartoons, Drew shouldn't beat people up in real life. > Yesterday we watched an old Super Friends cartoon that was from the 70's and > several times my 8 year old daughter commented on how stupid and boring the > show was, but she is glued to this newer, much more violent version, that > was resurrected as "Justice League". Super Friends? Crap. Crappity-crap-crap-crap. So crappy, there aren't words to describe how crappy it is. I wouldn't let my kids watch that as punishment. > I miss the days of Quick Draw McGraw and Mugsey the dog.. :-( Feh. I like the classic Tex Avery and Chuck Jones cartoons, if I'm not watching the new stuff. Adam C. Lipscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Silence. I am watching television." - Spider Jerusalem _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
