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The Library => The SGA => Topic started by: Kaos on January 30, 2012, 09:45:24 PM
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Was sitting around the other day reminiscing about time spent with my grandmother.
(This is going to be long...)
One of the things she loved to do was play cards. She liked Rummy but when I was five or six years old the rules of the game were a little too much to comprehend. Couldn't hold all those cards in my hand anyway.
Since she liked cards, though and she knew I liked Batman so she found and bought a set of Batman cards. The game was essentially "Go Fish" with Batman characters.
I knew Joker, Penguin, Batman, Robin, Batgirl and all of those. But to fill out the deck there were a few odd characters. One of them was Kidnapper.
Just a face drawn on a playing card. Square jawed guy with a shadowy beard and a black mask.
Wasn't sure what a kidnapper did so I asked my grandmother. She said somebody who caught children and held them away from their parents.
Looking for reassurance I asked her if they were real or fake like Penguin.
Oh they're real, she said without much thought. She told me that some kid in a nearby town had been kidnapped just a few months before.
She thought nothing of it.
I was terrorized. Every guy I saw on the street for months was a potential kidnapper. My parents thought I was stupid for booby trapping my room and checking windows and doors. Branches scraping on the window at night was a kidnapper trying to gain access. Every car that drove by was a kidnapper casing the house. Like an idiot I found a different way to walk to school that didn't involve being on the open street. I navigated storm drains and side streets. In retrospect I was in greater danger there from some random kidnapper than if I'd been on the main road but what does a first grader know?
While turning that over in my mind I considered what my own kids had been exposed to by first grade.
If you watch the news its a constant litany of rapes, murders, robberies and mayhem. You can't escape bullet riddled bodies on CSI, L&O and countless other shows.
I've had to explain concepts like homosexuality, genocide, adultery and fuck all else because of what they hear on the radio and see on TV.
If a drawn face on a stupid playing card could horrify me as a six year old I wonder what the relentless assault of death and destruction does to kids today?
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Your therapist must be one rich sumbish!
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If a drawn face on a stupid playing card could horrify me as a six year old I wonder what the relentless assault of death and destruction does to kids today?
It all depends on what kind of environment they are raised in. It also depends on the child. Some it won't make an impact, some it will.
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We had this discussion in another thread, but I really think so many of them are desensitized to it all. The bombardment of all those things mentioned, through TV, music and especially video games, is so over the top it boggles the mind. Got the kid an X-Box 360. Went with him to Game Stop to pick out some games and I was blown away to see that probably 80% or more had to do with killing in one form or another. I watched one of the TV's doing a promo for a particular game and there was this young guy and girl talking about the game...smiling, happy and perky as if they were doing a commercial for Mentos or Skittles. The guy says....
"You'll die many times...but you'll learn from death."
I had some back and forth with Sani about it and he was talking about making recommendations on games not totally centered around death and violence. We've allowed him to get racing games and action hero fight games, wrestling etc. But, he still is exposed to it 1000X over just by watching TV or even going over to a friends house where they play video games. There was no death in Atari Pong. Although I could kick some mean ass.
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I really think so many of them are desensitized to it all. The bombardment of all those things mentioned, through TV, music and especially video games, is so over the top it boggles the mind.
THIS part ^^^ All of it.
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Got the kid an X-Box 360. Went with him to Game Stop to pick out some games and I was blown away to see that probably 80% or more had to do with killing in one form or another.
Like a giant gorilla throwing barrels at a small Italian man wouldn't be deadly?
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Like a giant gorilla throwing barrels at a small Italian man wouldn't be deadly?
I just covered his eyes and steered him away from that section.