Since I don't have children, my opinions on what I would allow children to see are hypothetical...
But I was a child, and I remember we'd get ahold of pages from Playboy; pictures of nude women, and I'd hide mine under the mattress and take them out and look at them. The fact that they were forbidden made them more excititng. I also remember as a young child, not being able to distinguish between the violence in cartoons and reality. Old cartoons like the roadrunner and many others the characters would be hit or something and they would recover from the damage immediately. I remember conciously imitating the violence I saw in cartoons, hitting other children and being surprised when they didn't simply bounce like rubber balls like the cartoon characters did. - T --- In [email protected], "tamarawyndham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Seems to me that it's parents and teachers, who worry most about what is > shown. Children > are such an inspiration to me, but the urge to shelter them can be such a > damper on > things for the rest of us. > > I am (proudly) childless. So I don't have to be concerned about raising > children myself. I > am often resentful of the restrictions made in children's interest. > > What should children be sheltered from? Are children always the real reason > that art is > censored? > > So much of the time children are sheltered from sex, but not from violent > imagery. > > - T > > --- In [email protected], guido bondioli <bondioli22@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > When we had the Mail Art Extravaganza in Dallas in > > > 2003 we had a > > > > mailbox holding the 'scary' mail (from a City of > > > Dallas point of > > > > view) with a tiny lock saying it would be opened > > > on request. That > > > > way everything was there and didn't upset the > > > conservative family > > > > viewers. > > The conservative viewers should not be permitted to > > control anything but themselves. The rest of us > > rolling over for them gives them power over us which > > is illegitimate. We are stupid to agree to any of > > their fears. It is we who are without fear that are > > the leaders. The frightened and gutless ideologues > > have no place in my decisions and I urge you to leave > > them out of yours. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Gee, how did I miss that!!!! It would have been fun > > > to take a peek. > > > > > >  > > > > > > Dragonfly Dream > > > www.dragonflydream.com > > > > > > gotta mail art call to post? > > > go here- > > > http://htmlgear.tripod.com/guest/control.guest? > > > a=sign&u=dragonflydream&i=2&r= > > > > > > Dragonfly's blog- > > > http://www.thedragonflydream.blogspot.com > > > > > > "The great end of art is to strike the imagination > > > with the power of a > > > soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst > > > of a collapsing > > > world." > > > > > > -- Friedrich Nietzsche > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________Sick > sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's > > Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. > > http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222 > > >
