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acroyearget this...
ok, so I can say "damn" 5 times, have some cloud destroy a space station of several hundred people, and some electric alien come in and zap away a main character and get a G rating... (Star Trek 1)
and I can have a teenager shoot his own dog after you've spent 75 minutes getting us to love it and get a G rating... (Old Yeller)...
and I can basically have the main bad guy die by falling a hundred feet to his doom and get a G rating... (basically about 1/3rd of the disney animated films, including Rescuers 2, Tarzan, Beauty, Hunchback, ...)
...but if one person lights up who doesn't really need to smoke (by some other persons standards, of course, not their own), then i have to give it an R??????
some people have some really fucked up ideas of what they think kids should be allowed to see...that's fine, but they shouldn't be the judge of my kids. Hide their own children in a closet.
My children will know the world with my attention and my guidance, not in spite of my ignorance or negligence.
ok, so I can say "damn" 5 times, have some cloud destroy a space station of several hundred people, and some electric alien come in and zap away a main character and get a G rating... (Star Trek 1)
and I can have a teenager shoot his own dog after you've spent 75 minutes getting us to love it and get a G rating... (Old Yeller)...
and I can basically have the main bad guy die by falling a hundred feet to his doom and get a G rating... (basically about 1/3rd of the disney animated films, including Rescuers 2, Tarzan, Beauty, Hunchback, ...)
...but if one person lights up who doesn't really need to smoke (by some other persons standards, of course, not their own), then i have to give it an R??????
some people have some really fucked up ideas of what they think kids should be allowed to see...that's fine, but they shouldn't be the judge of my kids. Hide their own children in a closet.
My children will know the world with my attention and my guidance, not in spite of my ignorance or negligence.
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ok, try this.
Date: 2004-03-10 04:23 am (UTC)when the child is 6-13, then yeah, I'll be there to make sure that he sees things worth seeing, regardless of the rating.
what I lose when the movies that I think he should be allowed to see, but I personally have no interest in seeing, are rated R for *stupid stuff* like "smoking" or "drinking" because Hollywood "glamorizes"* it, I don't get to show my child the trust as an adolescent that they need to grow.
My ability to trust my child's judgement that they won't immitate what they see (and yes, they'll make mistakes, all teenagers do) is hampered by the handful of jerks who can't trust anybody and have no intention of letting their kids have any freedom whatsoever. and its THEIR kids who will do the drugs and binge drinking when the leave the house for college.
I should be allowed to eventually show my child that I trust thier judgements in some cases. The government and these other self-governing bodies seem intent on not giving me that freedom.
*(an accusation that goes back to prohibition days and has NEVER been anything more than a conservative's opinion, not a fact proven by anybody)