Comments | myniamh: DON'T THEORISE! ACCESSORIZE!

myniamh

DON'T THEORISE! ACCESSORIZE!

Aug 14, 2009 10:45

Documentary: Consuming Kids: Commercialization of Childhood
Creepy, creepy, creepy arsed documentary on advertising to children (in the US). Holy crap.

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nixwilliams August 14 2009, 00:58:33 UTC

AUGH, YOU SAID THE THING! DON'T SAY THE THING!

pee ess *shudders*

myniamh August 14 2009, 03:11:31 UTC

I WANT PINK BLINGY SHOES! GIVE ME MY PINK BLINGY SHOES!

aphephobia August 14 2009, 01:54:04 UTC

Hopefully parents will watch it and start to get a clue and talk to their kids about marketing and advertising and just the general level of shit foisted onto kids nowadays.

Seriously, I remember being on MumsWeb and the women there whinging about how their kids wanted a heap of crap and they had to buy it and my comment of "I suppose you could talk to them about how advertising is geared to make them want stuff in the same way it's pushed at adults" was met with "But you don't understaaaaand, hippy."

Then again, pointing out to these women that the diet industry was huge and beauty standards are unrealistic was met with some seriously fucked up criticism and fatphobia, too. In a way, I can't help but think if people want to be stupid sheep, then who am I to begrudge marketing people for taking advantage and making a living out of that?

myniamh August 14 2009, 03:15:00 UTC

Did you watch the bit about The Nag Factor? Where the kid throws a tantrum and the father feels judged for having a noisy kid? That's part of it all too, parents are pressured to have perfect kids and one way to hide that they cannot achieve that is to just placate them with crap.

People have been very carefully trained from birth to BE sheep.

aphephobia August 14 2009, 03:28:24 UTC

See, that's where I'm weird. Lewis threw MEGA EPIC LJ-entry-worthy tantrums when we were out... because he was autistic. Or because there'd been some change in his routine or something freaked him out or because we were wanting to go do other things and he wanted to look at the stock market figures on the Teletext TVs in Myer or whatever. Toys wouldn't have placated him... hell, I've tried bribery, and that has only a very limited success rate! I've gotten used to being that parent that cops the filthy looks: if it's not because my kids are being demonic hellspawn, it's because I look young, or because I don't dress like a soccer mum or because I'm smoking or because my kid has green hair or because I've sworn loudly. People will find fault with ANYTHING when it comes to parents ( ... )

myniamh August 14 2009, 04:22:46 UTC

Mum used to have to get a baby sitter when she went to the shops, my brothers would chuck such a fit if we walked past the toy section.

You are a good mum, because of all of that.

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labryinth August 14 2009, 03:45:53 UTC

Interesting eh

Can you take us to Mount Splashmore *Grr Stupid French Canadian keyboard giving me a É instead of question mark*

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Re: Ha-Ha! sillyweasel August 14 2009, 22:26:24 UTC

In response to repetitive stuff like this, my mom used to count off birthday and christmas presents when she got annoyed.

One year I was denied Halloween for crap like this.

Re: Ha-Ha! myniamh August 15 2009, 06:35:29 UTC

Mine used to do that too, not that my brothers paid any attention at all.

lab_brat August 14 2009, 03:59:11 UTC

oh is that the thing that was on the ABC last night? I missed it, will have to take a look! thankyou.

myniamh August 14 2009, 04:26:06 UTC

Yup, I only saw half so I went looking this morning.

It reminds me of those beauty industry adds about how many adds with unattainable bodies a girl will see in her life.

myniamh August 14 2009, 04:29:27 UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNFpoAt5PkA

chatalaine August 14 2009, 13:39:44 UTC

God. I've watched this happen, along with the bratty/smart kid vs. stupid/clueless parent in prime time TV, and just felt so disgusted and sad for my country's future. The parallels to the Decline of Rome are becoming clearer all the time...

myniamh August 15 2009, 06:44:23 UTC

It is the Doom Of Men. In a generation, no one will be able to look away. =(

I remember discovering non-commercial ABC/TripleJ (youth youf) radio at about 15. My god. THERE WERE NO ADDS. Within a month commercial radio was unlistenable, the adds were just too obvious and I had forgotten how to tune them out.

Actually that might be a good thing to try on kids, add-free-detox! XD