XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: miyuki@spam-no-way.invalid   
      
   In article ,   
      Dave Watson  wrote:   
   > Galen Musbach wrote:   
   > > Let me consider the point further. Tokyopop is trying to   
   > > protect their retailers by creating a system where only obvious   
   > > parental negligence would result in young children being   
   > > traumatized by material that is simply too much for their   
   > > undeveloped minds.   
      
   > Which brings around the crux of the whole ratings/censorship dilemma:   
   > Parents.  All of these things are the direct results of Western parents   
   > being too chicken/lazy/stupid to do the job that they should have taken   
   > on when they decided to breed.  If the manga and anime companies had any   
   > balls and brains, they would flip any complaints by "concerned parents"   
   > right back at them.  They'd say things like, "Excuse me, but if your kid   
   > is old enough to even begin to comprehend some of the things in here,   
   > why haven't you taught them yet about what they are, what they mean, and   
   > the consequences of these things occurring in the real world?  Raising   
   > your kid is your job--not ours.  Don't keep kids ignorant; that only   
   > makes it easier for them to become victims."   
      
   That could apply to virtually any medium or genre you could mention. Too   
   often, parents prefer to abdicate their responsibilities to television,   
   computers and so forth, and never take any real interest in what is   
   happening until it is either too late or else they pick up some abstract   
   out of context and blow it up out of proportion.   
      
   I still say that Mrs. Browlowski (sp? perhaps I might have been better to   
   say "Kyle's Mom" or "Big Fat Bitch") in South Park is a prime model of   
   such a person.   
      
   Here you have a problem. These people often shout louder than most folk,   
   and politicians, not to mention the sleazier parts of the tabloid press,   
   love to play on public sympathies using such campaigns. "Preserve our   
   innocent youngsters from the rising plague of filth that besets us..."   
      
   Must be interesting to have more than one face. ;)   
      
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