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noname223
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- Aug 18, 2020
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I currently watch some cartoons. Or I also think of animes with similar content. One good example for what I mean is the relationship of Homer Simpson with Bart Simpson. I have stopped watching it a long time ago. But it is kind of a well-known example. Homer (the father) chokes his son quite often in the series.
One could say I am too politically correct. One should have the right to make jokes about that. I don't deny that. But myself a survivor of child abuse ask myself why people have to laugh when they see something like that. VIolence is often a gag in series or movies. I think of one anime where the wife slaps her husband all the time. And all the time it is seen just as a little bit of funny arguments between them.
I am not sure whether such fictional series contribute to the problem of domestic violence. I have the feeling in some series it is compared with showing affection to your loved ones. And yeah it is kind of sick to imagine something like that. But this is exactly how my mom perceived the abuse of her children. Very sick indeed.
One could say my mom is just too dumb to differentiate between fictional humor and real life behavior. Call of Duty is also not responsible when someone starts a shooting. And I doubt that fictional series gave my mom the idea for the abuse. I rather think this is a behavior which was inherited over generations.
However I ask myself whether such jokes contribute to an environment where we consider such a behavior as sanctioned.
And why exactly do people laugh when a child gets beaten by their parents? Like in cartoons violence is a mean to make people laugh. It is kind of natural to sometimes feel schadenfreude. It would also be lame if this would be fully prohibted.
One could say I am too politically correct. One should have the right to make jokes about that. I don't deny that. But myself a survivor of child abuse ask myself why people have to laugh when they see something like that. VIolence is often a gag in series or movies. I think of one anime where the wife slaps her husband all the time. And all the time it is seen just as a little bit of funny arguments between them.
I am not sure whether such fictional series contribute to the problem of domestic violence. I have the feeling in some series it is compared with showing affection to your loved ones. And yeah it is kind of sick to imagine something like that. But this is exactly how my mom perceived the abuse of her children. Very sick indeed.
One could say my mom is just too dumb to differentiate between fictional humor and real life behavior. Call of Duty is also not responsible when someone starts a shooting. And I doubt that fictional series gave my mom the idea for the abuse. I rather think this is a behavior which was inherited over generations.
However I ask myself whether such jokes contribute to an environment where we consider such a behavior as sanctioned.
And why exactly do people laugh when a child gets beaten by their parents? Like in cartoons violence is a mean to make people laugh. It is kind of natural to sometimes feel schadenfreude. It would also be lame if this would be fully prohibted.
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