Yeah... so in either case, will we do more good by censoring the fiction, or by punishing the actual criminals?
My generation grew up watching stuff like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and hearing about kids getting hurt acting out Power Ranger fight scenes. As grownups, we're getting sick of hearing that TV 'makes' us do these things, because it didn't happen to most of us. I think there's a generation of parents coming up that will be better at turning off the TV and/or talking to their kids about what they see on it, and making them into healthy consumers of fiction.
When it's adults or teenagers acting this stuff out, at an age when they should know better, you can't really point a finger at parents. Or can you? Are the boys who coerced a girl into being humiliated on camera just kids who managed, out of sheer luck, to survive into puberty without getting hurt imitating action movies? They didn't learn the lesson earlier, and now they're old enough to be interested in reenacting fictional sex without considering the consequences.
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Date: 2008-02-04 12:34 am (UTC)My generation grew up watching stuff like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and hearing about kids getting hurt acting out Power Ranger fight scenes. As grownups, we're getting sick of hearing that TV 'makes' us do these things, because it didn't happen to most of us. I think there's a generation of parents coming up that will be better at turning off the TV and/or talking to their kids about what they see on it, and making them into healthy consumers of fiction.
When it's adults or teenagers acting this stuff out, at an age when they should know better, you can't really point a finger at parents. Or can you? Are the boys who coerced a girl into being humiliated on camera just kids who managed, out of sheer luck, to survive into puberty without getting hurt imitating action movies? They didn't learn the lesson earlier, and now they're old enough to be interested in reenacting fictional sex without considering the consequences.