[HKMk23]

Yeah, but it's ONLY a cartoon, right? /dripping sarc

Thanks for the post, AND the other relevant link.

I haven't had ANY TV (no cable in a pretty much cable only area) for 15 years. I had occasion, on a family vacation, to peruse some of the offerings of 'Cartoon Network' on our hotel room TV. When I was a kid, that kind of violence didn't appear in programming targeted at children,. In fact, the only 'cartoon' type place you could find it was in so-called 'comic' books like "Heavy Metal" and, of course, your parents would (rightfully) superheat your arse for bringing smut like that into the house.

http://www.heavymetalmagazinefanpage.com/history.html

Today, more than ever, parents must be gatekeepers of entry points that did not exist when they were growing up.

This point seems obvious, yet I am continually alarmed at the mass obliviousness to it that I find among parents.

[Strategerist]

Ummm..what time of day was this? You are aware they have "Adult Swim" late in the evenings, right?

[proxy_user]

Hmmmmm....Brothers Grimm? Mother Goose? Dark tales from medieval forests...

[Lurker]

Hey read your kids Grimms Fairy Tales or The Arabian Knights and see what kind of violent images you'll be exposing them to.

Or try a few Old Testament stories for some real old fashioned eye for an eye stuff.

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