P.S Crazy you should keep your opinion to your self!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sincerely: not your friend Nathan. :(

What do you think of the Peanuts? When I was a kid, I never understood why their parents were never around. Did they leave them at home at such a young age to persue adult things, like whoring around and drinking? Why were they always watching TV? And why oh why was Lucy always such a bitch?

I’ve also been wondering what mothers think of Caliou. I’m still pregnant with #1, so I really have no excuse to have been watching stuff like that. Still, I was fascinated by his lack of hair. And his whining.

Sheesh.

My daughter likes “The Little Mermaid.” The original story is about a 15 year old mermaid girl who is in love with a prince so she makes a deal with the sea witch to get legs. If she doesn’t get the prince to marry her in a few days she will die. To get legs, she loses her voice and will have horrible, endless pain in her legs. For love, she goes through all this horrible suffering and potential death. When the prince marries someone else, her sisters make another deal with the witch that if she stabs the prince with a knife she can save herself. She can’t do it and sacrifices herself so she dies.

Tell me what that tells women about themselves, about love and about men.

Apparently we need more female children’s book authors. I had no idea the LIttle Mermaid was so damn disturbing!

I do remember being completely disturbed by books as a kid. The ones that really troubled me were the animals that die books. Charlotte’s Web was a favorite of mine. But I was so disturbed as well. The ENTIRE book is about a spider working herself to death to keep a pig from being slaughtered. It was exhausting.

And Watership Down? Sweet jesus, I am still trying to remove the knife from my heart.

Another: Long Eared Xmas Donkey. That little dude was ridiculed for having long ears and his mother froze to death trying to keep him alive during a blizzard after HE gets thrown out for being a freak.

Curious George is curious indeed. If you were to swap out that monkey and put a little boy in his place, that little boy would be accused of doing some mighty questionable things. But since it’s a monkey, I kind of question Bill and the Man With the Yellow Hat. What are they doing with that monkey?

I guess I wasn’t all that speechless after all.

It tells me, women these days are just plain not as awesome as mermaids!

(Amber: gonna stay FAR away from that one.)

Only IDIOTS think it’s a question of nature vs nurture. It’s actually more complex:

nature vs nurture vs curious monkeys

We were successful in the 80s, proving that the Smurfs were satanic. It’s now time to rid our libraries of these perverted monkey books!

I’ll buy the fertilizer.

I’ll skip the vagina and take two tits straight up.

Television and movies are another story, though. I’m constantly outraged at how very adult material is easily accessible to small children and that stuff makes little Curious George looks perfectly innocent. There is little or no effort in our culture today – from TV commercials, advertising, movies, billboards, etc. – to keep the images floating around at a kid-friendly level.

We live in a culture for childless adults with poor impulse control, despite any lip service to the contrary. Everything is made available.

When I was a kid, in the 70’s and early 80s, adult content wasn’t on until after 9pm at least. I saw the Holocaust miniseries when I was a kid, and that was very adult but they let it on in prime time because of the important historical content. I saw a scene of a girl getting raped, by today’s standards a very tame scene, and I was freaking traumatized for weeks. I can’t imagine what it would do to a child to see repeated graphically violent images on primetime television day after day, year after year. And you know that’s what most kids in America are doing…watching TV unsupervised. I think we’re dehumanized by all this content and it makes me want to cry because I see the repercussions everywhere I look. I will take Curious George any day. At least George isn’t intentionally evil and he doesn’t kill people.

I never want people to not speak their mind. Y’all teach me stuff, like about vagina-less mermaids.

Plus, I don’t think he was directing it at you per se. Really.

But, yeah, I got you beat!

http://www.psy.fsu.edu/history/wnk/ape.html

And Michele, I have wondered the same things about mermaids. Mainly ever since I saw Splash.

Nature vs nurture vs monkey is still serious business, though!

Does no one else get icked out by this scenario? No? Just me?

little boys and curious monkeys get to have fantastical adventures – girls just dream about prince charming, beautiful dresses and sacrificing themselves for a man. not fair.

Granted, I’m sure that wasn’t the lesson my mom wanted me to learn, but it seemed pretty clear to me when I read the books.