Hi Tom.
Also I've noticed a massive gender bias. Violence or torment of a man is
seen as far more acceptable than the same thing of a woman or a child (and
lets not even get into the subject s/xual violence against men), a great
example of this is the film kickass, which features the super hero hit girl
who is a 12 year old girl who guns people down, knives them, and laughs
about it often with lots of profane comments. That is sort of the point of
kickass, it's intended to disturb people's perceptions, and indeed lots of
crytics complained that hit girl's gender should be changed to male.
Then again that is a debate for another day.
Personally, while I agree with you cultural standards change, equally it
would help if short, advisery messages appeared on various media forms.
"shows torture" "shows blood" shows nudity", "shows crime" etc. That would
likely be far more helpful than existing age ratings which are often worked
out on a very silly system, since that depends upon what is actually! shown
in subject matter, and simply gives parents or guardians the choice.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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