Yeah, so it's all the rage to jump on people who don't "get" the Internets like you and I do. We're all hip and edgy adults who loves us some violent cartoons. She's an old fuddy duddy who wants to take our rights away.
I'm not so sure. First, well, these kinds of articles aren't real news, they're water cooler articles. This woman is the kind of author who makes money writing a few articles a year and who has to have a gimmick to get noticed.
Secondly, she clearly states that a teenager showed her 9 year old the cartoon at a summer camp, and the 9 year old showed it to the 6 year old. She was watching the 6 year old online, because she saw the cartoon turn from cute to violent, so the accusations of her not being attentive enough aren't supported by this article.
If I was a mom, I'd be mad, too. Not at the Internets but at the summer camp for not exercising more responsibility in the content shown to young children. One of her two suggestions is for summer camps and the like to have more responsibility in this area. This doesn't sound unreasonable. I don't know who she's addressing her article to -- does she want the government to regular summer camps? -- but it's a reasonable enough request.
The other suggestion she makes is for advertisers to not sponsor such cartoons. Whether you and I like it or not, that's how advertising works. Instead of people protesting advertisers who show commercials during "Maude", it's people protesting banner ads on violent cartoons. Whether any protest even happens or causes Toyota to pull their ads is a completely different story.
Yeah, the author says a lot of idiotic stuff. I'm not a big fan of her fury that the creators of the cartoon are making money. If there's an audience for the site then good for them, that's the way capitalism works and she may want to get used to it. The claim that Tom & Jerry never pulled a knife is silly. She's clearly oblivious to the classic T&J short where everyone has fencing foils and Tom gets the guillotine ("c'est la guerre!").
She also claims to be liberal but cartoons like this make her want to turn fascist. Whatever. I chalk that up to padding and inflamatory rhetoric designed to make the average reader get all huffy and pay attention to the article.
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Date: 2005-10-24 08:37 pm (UTC)I'm not so sure. First, well, these kinds of articles aren't real news, they're water cooler articles. This woman is the kind of author who makes money writing a few articles a year and who has to have a gimmick to get noticed.
Secondly, she clearly states that a teenager showed her 9 year old the cartoon at a summer camp, and the 9 year old showed it to the 6 year old. She was watching the 6 year old online, because she saw the cartoon turn from cute to violent, so the accusations of her not being attentive enough aren't supported by this article.
If I was a mom, I'd be mad, too. Not at the Internets but at the summer camp for not exercising more responsibility in the content shown to young children. One of her two suggestions is for summer camps and the like to have more responsibility in this area. This doesn't sound unreasonable. I don't know who she's addressing her article to -- does she want the government to regular summer camps? -- but it's a reasonable enough request.
The other suggestion she makes is for advertisers to not sponsor such cartoons. Whether you and I like it or not, that's how advertising works. Instead of people protesting advertisers who show commercials during "Maude", it's people protesting banner ads on violent cartoons. Whether any protest even happens or causes Toyota to pull their ads is a completely different story.
Yeah, the author says a lot of idiotic stuff. I'm not a big fan of her fury that the creators of the cartoon are making money. If there's an audience for the site then good for them, that's the way capitalism works and she may want to get used to it. The claim that Tom & Jerry never pulled a knife is silly. She's clearly oblivious to the classic T&J short where everyone has fencing foils and Tom gets the guillotine ("c'est la guerre!").
She also claims to be liberal but cartoons like this make her want to turn fascist. Whatever. I chalk that up to padding and inflamatory rhetoric designed to make the average reader get all huffy and pay attention to the article.