Further Oppression of Our Youth

[madamemacabre]

I was other at Anime News Network just now for...aw hell, I forget, and I saw some article on how in Arkansas there's a law or something that restricts access by minors to more "mature" reading material, and apparently it initially meant just softcore bookstore pornography and the like, well, it looks like at some point or other that this has been

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[madamemacabre]

It aggravates me to no end how protective parents are getting. I mean, within reason it's acceptable, but like, a person I used to know that shall remain nameless(and heartless until the end of time, but that's another post) seemed to be constantly shielded by their parents, getting scared and curling up into a fetal position when something even remotely uncomfortable, not even painful would come up in conversation, and would get scared during movies really easily. This same person is also against the concept of war or violence of any kind for the most part. It's an admirable idealism, but it's hard for me to live in this world knowing what's going on outside the safety of my paradigm to not believe that there are bad things out there. You hear every so often that videogames and movies are training our children to kill. I know I'm not a parent yet, but you know, I think I'd rather have children that had good reflexes and wouldn't crack under pressure than ones that would just freeze if something bad ever happened. God only knows how realistic that is though...

Interstingly enough, I just read Stephen King's review of the new Harry Potter. He quotes an old addage from his mother: "if they(children) understand and enjoy something, let them be with it. If it gives them nightmares, take it away." To quote, well, every kindergarten teacher that ever lived, each child is unique. They will each take to life and aspects of it differently. It should be decided on a case by case basis what children are exposed to, by their parents, not by their well meaning but overly shielding government.