From: bashley101@gmail.com   
      
   On 07/21/2019 09:30 PM, Mark Shaw wrote:   
   > fredseaborne@hotmail.com wrote:   
   >   
   >> As a youngster I was always deeply traumatized by any scenes of   
   >> death or serious injury in children's movies; I would often have   
   >> nightmares about stuff like this.  A reason it affected me so much   
   >> was that I was completely "laid open" emotionally while watching   
   >> movies, eagerly and trustingly assuming that the films would be   
   >> clean and joyfully-entertaining, and so whenever anything violent   
   >> or harsh like this happened in the story, it would always "strike   
   >> hard and deep" into my soul.  (More than once during film-showings   
   >> in school, a student would start crying and want to leave the   
   >> theater because of a scary/upsetting scene; sometimes even an older   
   >> student than myself)  I don't think children's movies should   
   >> contain negative or scary stuff like this.  It needlessly upsets   
   >> children during their tender years.   
      
   I cried.  I still cry at stupid stuff (including Bambi's mom), even when   
   I KNOW I'm being manipulated.  My granddaughter and I cried all the way   
   through the goddam Notebook, and I resented every stinking minute of it.   
      
   But traumatized? HAH!  Even when I was tiny I knew it was just a movie.   
     OTOH, I knew that Psycho was just a movie, but I felt really strange   
   getting into a shower for years afterward.   
      
   > Now me, I've always been traumatized by people writing long strings   
   > of text without any FUCKING LINE BREAKS.   
   >   
   > But maybe that's just me.   
      
   Me too.  It's not like the damn things cost anything.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Bev   
       "I read about this syndrome called hypochondria in a   
        magazine. I think I've got it."               -- DA   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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