Same with the original run of Ren and Stimpy, some of Spongebob, Invader Zim, Cow and Chicken, Rockos Modern life, Chowder, etc. I’d argue they are still kids shows, because kids are actually quite weird.
The attempted reboot of Ren and Stimpy was just terrible.
'cept the analogy isn’t the same. Games filled with guns and shooting present scenarios that don’t regularly occur for most people (most people don’t have guns; most people don’t shoot them at other people).
Whereas as quite a few people who watch porn themselves end up in scenarios involving sex.
It’s a question. It’s a speculation. And it’s a curious one. It’s very different from the games-cause-real-world-harm argument, as the situations do not occur for most people.
As has been pointed out before, if video games influenced behavior, kids exposed to PacMan in the 1980s would have been eating pellets and listening to electronic music in the 1990s.
Yeaaahhh, that was a bit more weasely-insinuatey than I was going for, there…
Considering that I specifically used phrases such as “I don’t have any proof of this whatsoever,” and “To dip another toe into the waters of irresponsible speculation,” your demand for citations lends greater weight and specificity to my words than is warranted.
And yes, I’m claiming harm. So are you:
It is true that some, perhaps even a majority of porn, is produced and presented in a way which is harmful to women (and men).
I’m not declaring “Ban porn!” or “Porn causes rape!” (Though I do recognize that what I wrote certainly implied the latter, much more strongly than I intended…I was thinking more along the lines of general bad behavior and douchebaggery, not stark sexual violence).
But you say there’s harm, I say there’s harm, which means that there’s some agreement, somewhere. So what is that harm, exactly?
You know, I’m beginning to think that the question shouldn’t necessarily, “Why don’t we teach men to not rape?” because I have to tell you, even as a 39-year-old, I know I got bombarded by that message a lot. Rather, I think the message ought to be, “Why don’t we teach kids about sex?” Porn, though it can be entertaining, is a horrible instructor. I mean, if that was my instructor, I just spit on her genitals and just sorta bang away and she screams like it’s the best orgasm ever, right? (What’s with the constant sucking air through the teeth, anyway?)
Definitely not just for kids. But kids love it too. Especially kids with good taste.
Evidently you weren’t reading boingboing circa 2008…
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