G.I. Joe No Great American Hero, Group Says

CNSNews.com ^ | 11/16/01 | Michael L. Betsch

[xp38]

Anyone remember the Johnny Seven One Man Army toy gun? LOL Imagine what this group would say about that one!!

[Clovis_Skeptic]

"At one developmental stage, it may just be a doll for the kid, but eventually they may begin to emulate that character and begin to do things that that character does. And, that will include violent action eventually."

I suppose she would approve of the boys playing with the Gay Billy Doll, or whatever it was called

Why doesn't she just cut to the chase and admit she wants all young male to be castrated, and put in pink frilly dresses, like her son I would assume.

[Okies love Dubya 2]

You gave me the first laugh of the morning! As I was reading the article, I thought that a GI Joe would make a good gift for my 3.5 year old daughter for Christmas--he can keep away that punk Ken from my daughter's Barbie doll house!

BTW, happy birthday to my husband who is celebrating his last year as a 20something!

[Enough_Deceit]

Hehehe! I forgot about that commercial and how it made me laugh. My Barbie never dated that pansy Ken. Good for you getting good toys for your cousins.

[warchild9]

I remember several years back walking out of a Manhattan toy store with a closed bag full of wargames. A crowd of wild-eyed women out on the sidewalk were chanting: "NO MORE WAR TOYS! PEACE AND LOVE TOYS!" Fearing violence from them, I kept my bag shut and walked rapidly away, eyes down, as the good Manhattanite I was learning to be (Southerners adapt when outside God's country)...the Kid.

[gnarledmaw]

"...when rested on top of the shoulder, they were bazookas."

Everyone knows you have to turn the fat end of the bat forward when its a bazooka or youll shoot your own troops. Ill have to remember to never play guns with you!

[skeeter]

BUMP for Mitchell Paige, Medal of Honor winner & original model for GI Joe. What a guy.

[BlueLancer]

"Everyone knows you have to turn the fat end of the bat forward when its a bazooka or youll shoot your own troops. Ill have to remember to never play guns with you!"

NO, IT AIN'T ... the flared end was always the end where the bullet/rocket came out. If you don't like it and won't play nice, I'll take my bat and go home.

Nyaah, nyaah, nyaah ... you poo-poo head!
8')

[martin gibson]

Lion & Lamb Project's Executive Director, Daphne White

A rat is a dog is a pig is a feminist...

(with profound apologies to rats, dogs and pigs.)

[Teacher317]

"Our message has always been, as far as children are concerned, violence is not child's play," White said, especially "when there is so much real violence going on in the world."

Has this guy ever seen two kids at play for more than an hour? Left alone, they wrestle, argue, hit, and insult each other for fun, as early as they can waddle on their own two feet. That doesn't come from TV, movies, toys, or parents. That's simply biology. Heck, watch two puppies for an hour and tell me there's not a natural inclination for fighting.

As for "so much real violence going on", I would venture to say that the world is a more peaceful place in the 21st Century than in any other. The 20th saw Socialists kill 100 million of their own citizens for not being on the same ideological page, and two world wars taking almost as many. Every previous century had people struggling to survive the elements, and find enough food. Fights/gunfights/duels/fatalities occurred between men for something as absurd as refusing to tip your hat. Simply staying alive was a daily fight. Just because we've grown the most sensationalizing media ever conceived does NOT mean that our troubles are the worst in History.

[LaBradford22]

The "Lion & Lamb" is a perfect analogy for what's wrong with the logic of these people. In the liberal pretend world that these clowns live in, the lion and the lamb get along perfectly and everyone sings kumbaya. In the real world, lions eat lambs...

[aculeus]

Prediction: today's photos of US Special Ops soldiers on horseback will soon be replicated in toy form.

[Lizavetta]

My boys loved to play with Barbies when they were of preschool age. Now they use them as targets for their guns. All in all, a well rounded childhood.

[xm177e2]

My mom didn't let me play with GI Joe, I had to make do with TMNT--And look how I turned out! So much for "don't let your kids play with violent toys"

"Problem solving, cooperating, getting along - I think that's the kind of world we would all rather have," the Lion & Lamb Project's White said. "I think most parents want to teach those values to their children."

Look at what we've done since 9/11: We've built a coalition, made friends with the Northern Alliance, cooperated, coordinating airstrikes with ground attacks, and we're working on making the Pashtuns in the south into our friends as well. Sure, we're killing large numbers of people, but that's not really the point.

[discostu]

Wow these people really hate everything that might make boys men. I grew up in the perfect time they heyday of GI Joe and Evil Knievel. The acid test for every toy in my childhood was how well it interacted with those (the action figures were pretty much the same size, though Joe was a little to bulky to ride well in most of Knievel's machines, but the two together saved the world many times in my backyard). And let me tell you, when it comes to damaging boys nobody beats Knievel, not the psyche mind you, the body. The most endangered species in the world is a boy with a bike and an Evil Knievel fetish, especially when they're building a house nearby and there's plenty of "snake river canyons" to jump over (actually knocked myself out cold on one failed attempt, never broke a bone though, much luckier than Knievel).

[Cold Heat]

blah,blah,blah,blah!yata,yata,yata,etc......................................................................................................................

[Freakazoid]

I loved my Major Matt Mason figures. I had the moonbase, the vehicles...ahhh...I and my friends on NAS Miramar (now MCAS Miramar) spent hundreds of hours (no exaggeration) playing with these toys. G.I. Joe occasionally got into the action but since he was a few inches taller he was often treated as some freaky alien character and dispatched with extreme prejudice.

Don't get me wrong. I loved G.I. Joe too. Our favorate activity was sort of a "Lord of the Flies" type thing where we stripped him down to his skivvies and slid him down a string tied from the tree to the swing-set. Then several screaming, lunatic little boys would throw at him everything we could find as he was sliding down. We could sure frighten some moms with the antics we pulled.

I'm going out and buying my 3-year old a G.I. Joe.

In Your Face, you bedwetting wussies!

[gridlock]

"Problem solving, cooperating, getting along - I think that's the kind of world we would all rather have," the Lion & Lamb Project's White said.

Sorry, Ms. White, that is not one of the choices. Either you live in a world where you are willing to use force when necessary, or you live ground beneath the heel of the boot of the despot who is.

Make your choice.

As for me, they can have my GI Joe when they pry my cold dead hand out of his vicious Kung-Fu Grip!

[ag2000jon]

But violent action figures such as G.I. Joe are not role models, said McIntyre. "At one developmental stage, it may just be a doll for the kid, but eventually they may begin to emulate that character and begin to do things that that character does. And, that will include violent action eventually

But witchcraft books such as Harry Potter are not role models, said McIntyre. "At one developmental stage, it may just be a book for the kid, but eventually they may begin to emulate that character and begin to do things that that character does. and, that will include witchcraft eventually.

[ag2000jon]

I forgot to add that his reasoning is stupid...I had G.I. Joe action figures my whole child hood. Me and my friends wore our Vietnam era fatigues everyday and had gutted M-1's that we "shot" each other with probably 200 times a day...We even built punji(?) sticks and made traps so that if one of our buddies wasn't paying attention, he paid for it...man, those were the days!!!!