I still don't have a problem with grownups playing it, but I think the sex is the least of the "bad influences" on kids there. Shit. I assume nearly all of the little kids out there will eventually have sex, but I hope many fewer of them will grow up thinking a life of crime is a good idea.
I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.
Willow ,'First Date'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jul 22, 2005 9:09:49 am PDT #2143 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Betsy HP - Jul 22, 2005 9:10:28 am PDT #2144 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
This turns out to be one of the big divides in the culture war. The right wing is outraged about sex, but cool with violence; the left wing has no problem with sex, but is outraged by violence.
So, for instance, the Buffy episode I never let my kids see was HUSH (too scary), while I squirmed through WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE but didn't make the kids quit watching.
Rio - Jul 22, 2005 9:11:49 am PDT #2145 of 10002
Are you ready to be strong?
I am pretty much OK with sex and violence.
tommyrot - Jul 22, 2005 9:12:27 am PDT #2146 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I squirmed through WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE but didn't make the kids quit watching.
I dunno... do you think your kids were mature enough to learn the adult lesson that sometimes good TV shows have crappy episodes?
amych - Jul 22, 2005 9:13:06 am PDT #2147 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I am pretty much OK with sex and violence.
Crazy anarchist! Or centrist. I'm not sure which.
Rio - Jul 22, 2005 9:16:10 am PDT #2148 of 10002
Are you ready to be strong?
Me neither.
Jesse - Jul 22, 2005 9:16:21 am PDT #2149 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am pretty much OK with sex and violence.
Ditto.
Although I did realize I would have been embarassed if my parents had come in the room while I was watching Nip/Tuck over the weekend.
sarameg - Jul 22, 2005 9:16:44 am PDT #2150 of 10002
This turns out to be one of the big divides in the culture war.
Ayup. Illustrated very awkwardly this past christmas where my brother got his 16 year old bil just this game and some cd/movie/? that had a very suggestive cover. My parents were appalled by the VIOLENCE!!!11, sil's parents by the PORN!!!11!.
Really, the two families are moderate stereotypes of the whole culture war dynamic. It'd be more amusing if I didn't know my brother and his wife spend all christmas just waiting one or the other of their parents to inadvertently (or not) offend the other.
Anne W. - Jul 22, 2005 9:16:58 am PDT #2151 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Full Extension! (for baseball fans. Or for fans of pictures of human beings launched into flight.)
Neat! (Hec, have you seen pictures of my dad's baseball statues?)
brenda m - Jul 22, 2005 9:19:11 am PDT #2152 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Hec, have you seen pictures of my dad's baseball statues?)
They don't have Jesus in them, do they?
t still scarred