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I have no doubt it affects adults too. And I think about what we (virtually all of us I suspect) accept as fine and dandy in entertainment today. Check it out. You cannot watch much of anything (I would say anything but someone could probably produce something so I’ll hedge there) that doesn’t have some sexual component that would have been considered not acceptable for all audiences when I was a child (which really was not THAT long ago).
The culture has changed in a short 30 years into something I barely recognize and people in their lives now accept what when I was a kid was not considered acceptable. We look a lot more now, like what the movies were showing as cool, then.

Check it out. You cannot watch much of anything (I would say anything but someone could probably produce something so I’ll hedge there) that doesn’t have some sexual component that would have been considered not acceptable for all audiences when I was a child (which really was not THAT long ago).

I will go a step further and say it is pretty hard to find a show that does not criticize conservatism or republicans in some manner.

There was a great show on a couple years back, "Chicago Code" I guess it was to close to truth to let it live. Was up on NetFlix a while back, don't know if it still is.

I remember when I was still a kid and they came out with the TV ratings (Y7, G, PG, etc). My mom kept saying how great it was because blah blah it will keep kids from seeing bad stuff. I was like, “Mom, are you kidding? Right now everything on tv is limited to somewhere around PGish at the worst. Once they get these ratings in they’ll be able to put much worse stuff on tv and justify it by saying that it’s got a rating on it, so if you don’t want to watch then don’t.” My mom totally didn’t think that it would happen like that.

Fast forward and now I’ve got my own very young kids. We don’t watch anything except limited cartoons and limited movies with the kids around. There’s just nothing that I can let them watch. We have a couple of cable shows each year that we watch after the kids go to sleep, and those don’t run at the same time. Often we just don’t watch anything. My parents watched only very tame stuff when I was young, but I still remember a lot of inappropriate content that I don’t want my kids seeing.

There ARE a lot of great educational cartoons out there now, that didn’t exist before. It’s just too bad there’s nothing that all of us could watch together.