RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] saturday morning cartoons are evil

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

*shrugs* I was watching porn before I was ald enough to grasp cartoons so
I guess I don't care. A lot of things in my life really screwed me up but
that has never made much difference. I was at least 16 before I cared
about sex even though I lived in an area where 12yo's were into
prostitution and my junior high friends held orgies (I'd mostly get bored
of watching and play Nintendo). Exposure from an early age always seemed
to make it more boring to me than my friends.

I won't argue that cartoons do seem to be drawn by horny high school boys
with a crush or their sisters Barbie's though. I think it does cause
problems when children try to look that way and there is no possible way
they ever should look that way. I mean you can't have a pencil waist and
breasts the size of gallon jugs of milk without some serious problems and
we should try to make kids think they are supposed to look that way. I
always wanted to tie bundles of balloons to Barbie's nipples to explain
why she doesn't fall over.

> Call it guilt by association.  "Ooh, he likes her." was the response of my
> 10 yr old brother.  He didn't understand the inuindo totally, but he's seen
> enough for it to be effecting him and sinking in.  The problem isn't just
> TS2, but TS2 is one of the many cartoons that are contributing to this
> all-too-early introduction to sexual nuances.  Even in the low quality
> cartoons, the female characters almost always have disproportionate
> 'anatomy' focusing the childs mind on things they shouldn't be noticing till
> at least puberty.

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