XPost: alt.support.childfree, alt.religion.christianity, alt.activism.children   
   From: gg@comcast.net   
      
   Due yourself and the world a favor bitch and hang yourself.   
      
   phamisfake wrote:   
      
   > I was at an arts and crafts event, and during the course of the evening, a   
   > woman started making chit-chat about movies that were coming out in the video   
   > stores.   
   >   
   > Another woman piped up and started whining and bitching about how she was   
   > appalled at the fact that she took her 6 (or maybe 7) year old kid to see The   
   > Hulk in the theater and they had to leave because the movie was so scary that   
   > it "terrified and traumitized" widdle pweshus.   
   >   
   > I didn't skip a beat, and told her:  "Well, I'm not surprised it scared the   
   > hell out of him, it was rated PG-13..."   
   >   
   > She gaped and sputtered like a fish out of water for a few seconds and then   
   > launched into a moral tirade against "superhero" movies that are "targeted"   
   at   
   > small children being excessively violent and scary.   
   >   
   > I came right back with the fact that these movies and the comics they are   
   based   
   > on are not intended for small children.  They're aimed at junior high to   
   adult   
   > aged viewers/readers.  And the movie was rated what it was rated for a reason   
   > and she made a choice to ignore that rating, and she is now having to deal   
   with   
   > the consequences of her choice.   
   >   
   > Her friend started whining about how if the movie wasn't for small children,   
   > why were they marketing Hulk toys for elementary school aged children.  Well,   
   > because they can.  But just because they are selling a toy, doesn't mean the   
   > parent has to buy it or has to take the kid to an age inappropriate movie.   
   >   
   > Of course, I never was able to make her admit that it was her own damn fault   
   > for taking a 6-7 year old into a PG-13 rated movie.  Because of course, we   
   all   
   > know that would have entailed some form of acceptance of personal   
   > responsibility as a parent.   
   >   
   > But, I at least held my own with her and her friend.  Even if they refused to   
   > see beyond their entitlemoo attitudes that everything be "safe" for their   
   > children, they didn't manage to cow me down or make me agree that all   
   superhero   
   > movies should be sanitized and child-"safe".   
   >   
   > She just kept saying:  "Why would a movie studio make such a horribly violent   
   > and scary movie about a superhero, knowing that children will want to see   
   it?"   
   >   
   > Totally, absolutely unable to mentally process the fact that she chose to   
   take   
   > her child into an age inappropriate movie and it was her fault that he was   
   > terrified and traumatized.  Not the movie studio's fault for making the movie   
   > in the first place.   
   >   
   > I closed with suggesting that she only take her child to G rated movies and   
   if   
   > she wants to take him to anything with a higher rating, maybe preview the   
   movie   
   > alone first to make sure it is "safe".   
   >   
   > Of course, her response was "I shouldn't have to preview movies to make sure   
   > they're safe for my child, movies which frighten children shouldn't even be   
   > made".   
   >   
   > Blah, blah, blah...  Talking to a brick wall.   
      
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