hey son let's beat up some pixelated hookers and then have a chat

[wanttobeatree]

BY THE WAY, I've been meaning to say! Way back in the day, my dad was doing an MA on observed violence in people with learning disabilities, or something along those lines. (He had to quit two thirds of the way through, as his employers decided they no longer wanted to give him one day off a week to help him manage twenty hours of study on top of

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[jolietjones]

OL THAT IS SO INTERESTING!

As a terrible mother of three, It would have been perfect however if the findings had been that children who watched violent TV unsupervised grew up to be less violent than those who never watched any violent TV. Ah well, can't have everything.

It's ok though, as my son is now 15 and playing terrible awful gory and violent games on his xbox and I've made him promise that he will turn out to be a well-adjusted normal person. He's promised, so all is well. *whistles*

ETA Fuck html

[wanttobeatree]

Hahahaaa, WELL my dad's research is very out of date now. I'm SURE if he were to start over again it would turn out that the unsupervised observers of violence are EXTREMELY WELL ADJUSTED AND PROBABLY KEEP THEIR ROOMS TIDY TOO.

(Fuck punctuation.)

[jolietjones]

Keep their (AHAHAHAHA) rooms (AHAHAHAHAHA!!!) tidy? Of course.

So obviously my Friends page has to be on the left. And is it just me or do you find that you end up with a bazillion tabs? Mine are OUT OF CONTROL.

[thehighwaywoman]

I? I AM RIVETED. (mostly in sympathy for firefox!fail. GRR ARGH UPON THEM.)

Although! That is darned interesting. Isn't it what they say -- take the mystery out of it, and once you understand a thing and its ramifications...

[prairie_grass]

I FIND THIS VERY VERY EXTRA INTERESTING! (What? I do.)

I can believe that though, it makes sense in terms of helping develop the concepts of fantasy and reality in children. It always annoys me when people make this huge leap to be like, 'kids who watch violent movies will go on rampages and kill people!' More recent studies have shown (I took a paper on this! Woo!) that that sort of thing is much more based on the social environment than some creepy cause and effect result of watching TV.

(Your Dad should totally finish his MA thoooough.)

[ibroketuesday]

It makes sense. It can become an ~educational~ experience.

[tazical]

I DO find that interesting! In fact, I did a similar not-very-but-pretend-it-was study for my university dissertation on how women react to TV violence.

One of my conclusions was that women who watched violent films/TV when young tended to be MUCH better at managing negative emotions in adulthood without using violence or verbal abuse themselves. There was also an overwhelming pattern that the same women were far less prone to be victims of domestic violence than those who weren't exposed to violent media because they were much more willing to walk out the door and/or fight back rather than put up with it.

So! There you go! Violence is great so I'm gonna go beat someone up now because I watched He-Man when I was 8.