Oh, please! As a child, we both saw Tarzan nearly naked. Cinderella arrived home after midnight. Pinocchio told lies. Aladdin was a thief. Toothpaste gave us “sex appeal.” The Coyote charged millions of dollars’ worth of goods at Acme. Batman was speeding wherever he drove (and was never seen without his buddy, who also wore his underwear on the outside, close by). Elmer Fudd carried a gun. The unmarried Snow White lived in a house with seven men. Popeye smoked a pipe, had tattoos, and got in constant fist fights. Pac Man ran around eating pills to enhance his performance. Shaggy and Scooby were hippies that always had the munchies.
And despite being force-fed these images repeatedly every Saturday morning, you and I both turned out fine! At least, I did: I’m now less sure about you.
So let kids have their fun. Teach them values and let them make their own mistakes: they’ll be better people for it, just like we are.
Seriously: kids are generally smarter than their parents, and you survived! Back off.
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Randy Cassingham is best known as the creator of This is True®, the oldest entertainment feature on the Internet: it has been running weekly by email subscription since early 1994. It is social commentary using weird news as its vehicle so it’s fun to read. Click here for the site — basic subscriptions are free.
Comments? Sorry: Facebook retired their commenting system (they didn’t even bother to alert me). Just as well, I suppose, but sadly there is no way to recover the many hundreds of comments made on this site. Lesson learned: never rely on someone else’s site for prime functions, especially “social media”!
Since this site is mostly retired now (maximum of one new post per month), I did decide that since all comments are now gone that I would not attempt to install any new commenting system. -rc
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