The Simpsons: child abuse is funny!
or "What's Wrong With The World (part 48 of 3,752)
I'm angry.
It seems 'dumb' but I'm really bothered.
So I'm watching Simpson tonight, 'cause it's on, sometimes it has good moments …
Anyway, so Bart is making mayhem as is the modus operandi. Then his teacher Ms. Krabappel loses control of her temper and slaps Bart twice(?) Everyone pauses in shock. Krabappel is then 'rubber-roomed', so she can't interact with students.
So that's the plot bobbing along.
Then Bart comes to visit her for giggles.
She even goes on to asks him something of the effect of why is he adding insult to injury? Since he got Krabappel fired. I think he says something about being sorry. I'm not sure she appologizes to Bart if she does, I think it's "I'm so sorry, but you're badness made me do it sort of thing..
Ms.Krabappel gets her job back, and we proceeds to the major plot of Krabappel getting together with Flanders, to underscore the first part wasn't really that big of a deal.
(…)
I obviously shouldn't be shocked. This is Simpsons after all. Their fame is for Homer choking Bart. Back when they were new and edgy from the early 90s. Though I now just sort of accept that, as being grandfathered in. It's a cartoon thing. But now we would never pull anything else like that …
So probably my mistake.
Abused children, most abused children are not so resilient.
This is a cartoon, but it's a prime-time cartoon, which as been running for 22 years.
While we're at it, let's give Bart involved in a gang, give Lisa a drug problem, get Maggie molested, etc. etc. ← funny!
It's not the abuse, it's the handling of it. The moral takeaway seems to be:"Bart is a bad kid, he really should be taught a lesson / kept in-line.
But you're not supposed to hit kids so what can you do?"{shrugs/flippantly}
I probably wouldn't be writing this if weren't for an episode earlier this season
Love is a Many Strangled Thing
Where Homer finally gets called out for his child-abuse.
I really thought this episode was going somewhere when they showed Kareem Abdul Jabar dressed as Homer choking Homer who was dressed as Bart. I thought this was great. To state the obvious, that's what child abuse is - not wacky zany fun of course, but giant(s) attacking you. It's a little twisted/sadistic and bizarre, but it's cartoon, and the take away is:Child abuse is twisted & sadistic.
Though as the plot moves forward, since Bart isn't being 'disciplined' anymore he goes wild with more mayhem than usual, and abuses Homer in true cartoon/situation-comedy fashion, as if this was all zany fun.
Marge catches up with the therapist:
"So whatever you did to my husband was too effective." ugh.
The problem is abusing your children - that's wrong. You need to psychologically dominate them without physical contact.
They go do cockamamie therapy with the twisted therapist, until he, the therapist, becomes so agitated that he ends up choking Bart.
The moral takeaway:"Some kids are so bad, that people can't help but abuse them … but that's wrong - so you shouldn't?"
Yay victim-blaming!
If you're gonna mention child-abuse in a more real context, maybe you shouldn't do it as a zany jumping-off point, or side-show.
Real child abuse isn't funny.
I think this is what's wrong with the world (or a very large part of it).
I'm angry.
It seems 'dumb' but I'm really bothered.
So I'm watching Simpson tonight, 'cause it's on, sometimes it has good moments …
Anyway, so Bart is making mayhem as is the modus operandi. Then his teacher Ms. Krabappel loses control of her temper and slaps Bart twice(?) Everyone pauses in shock. Krabappel is then 'rubber-roomed', so she can't interact with students.
So that's the plot bobbing along.
Then Bart comes to visit her for giggles.
She even goes on to asks him something of the effect of why is he adding insult to injury? Since he got Krabappel fired. I think he says something about being sorry. I'm not sure she appologizes to Bart if she does, I think it's "I'm so sorry, but you're badness made me do it sort of thing..
Ms.Krabappel gets her job back, and we proceeds to the major plot of Krabappel getting together with Flanders, to underscore the first part wasn't really that big of a deal.
(…)
I obviously shouldn't be shocked. This is Simpsons after all. Their fame is for Homer choking Bart. Back when they were new and edgy from the early 90s. Though I now just sort of accept that, as being grandfathered in. It's a cartoon thing. But now we would never pull anything else like that …
So probably my mistake.
Abused children, most abused children are not so resilient.
This is a cartoon, but it's a prime-time cartoon, which as been running for 22 years.
While we're at it, let's give Bart involved in a gang, give Lisa a drug problem, get Maggie molested, etc. etc. ← funny!
It's not the abuse, it's the handling of it. The moral takeaway seems to be:"Bart is a bad kid, he really should be taught a lesson / kept in-line.
But you're not supposed to hit kids so what can you do?"{shrugs/flippantly}
I probably wouldn't be writing this if weren't for an episode earlier this season
Love is a Many Strangled Thing
Where Homer finally gets called out for his child-abuse.
I really thought this episode was going somewhere when they showed Kareem Abdul Jabar dressed as Homer choking Homer who was dressed as Bart. I thought this was great. To state the obvious, that's what child abuse is - not wacky zany fun of course, but giant(s) attacking you. It's a little twisted/sadistic and bizarre, but it's cartoon, and the take away is:Child abuse is twisted & sadistic.
Though as the plot moves forward, since Bart isn't being 'disciplined' anymore he goes wild with more mayhem than usual, and abuses Homer in true cartoon/situation-comedy fashion, as if this was all zany fun.
Marge catches up with the therapist:
"So whatever you did to my husband was too effective." ugh.
The problem is abusing your children - that's wrong. You need to psychologically dominate them without physical contact.
They go do cockamamie therapy with the twisted therapist, until he, the therapist, becomes so agitated that he ends up choking Bart.
The moral takeaway:"Some kids are so bad, that people can't help but abuse them … but that's wrong - so you shouldn't?"
Yay victim-blaming!
If you're gonna mention child-abuse in a more real context, maybe you shouldn't do it as a zany jumping-off point, or side-show.
Real child abuse isn't funny.
I think this is what's wrong with the world (or a very large part of it).