Yeah, but it's ONLY a cartoon, right? /dripping sarc
Thanks for the post, AND the other relevant link.
I haven't had ANY TV (no cable in a pretty much cable only area) for 15 years. I had occasion, on a family vacation, to peruse some of the offerings of 'Cartoon Network' on our hotel room TV. When I was a kid, that kind of violence didn't appear in programming targeted at children,. In fact, the only 'cartoon' type place you could find it was in so-called 'comic' books like "Heavy Metal" and, of course, your parents would (rightfully) superheat your arse for bringing smut like that into the house.
http://www.heavymetalmagazinefanpage.com/history.html
Today, more than ever, parents must be gatekeepers of entry points that did not exist when they were growing up.
This point seems obvious, yet I am continually alarmed at the mass obliviousness to it that I find among parents.
Ummm..what time of day was this? You are aware they have "Adult Swim" late in the evenings, right?
Hmmmmm....Brothers Grimm? Mother Goose? Dark tales from medieval forests...
Or try a few Old Testament stories for some real old fashioned eye for an eye stuff.
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