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There are some parents who don't let there kids watch shows like "Power Rangers" or even some shows on Cartoon network like that Eddy show.
Do you think these parents are overreacting over nothering are they right?
Please share your thoughts on this!JM

is there too much violence in the world and shown on the news?
that's what needs to be tackled first: get peace and then go on about tv-series/shows/whatever

what should they show? a fluffy world with worldpeace? you just need to get out on the street to see that's not the case

How about this:

There are too many pathetic parents who don't give a rat's ass what their kids watch.

Attention: Grow up and be a parent!

corn

Grandad? Is that you??

there are plenty of violent cartoon shown on the kid network such as cartoon network and childrens channel, there a load of good old"happy" cartoons my daughter can watch though.
For the rest I dont watch tv too much so I aint updated on whats really on, I just watch the football games, musical programs and documentaries.

Yes it is me!I came back from the dead to speak to you!JK!I don't think I want to be a parent.Specially raising teenagers!That is going to be loads of fun.
You are right about there being violence on the news.We should have a peacefull country but I can't see that ever happening.But anyway back to the parents.
I think they are overreating some shows might be stupid to you but if your kids know the difference between make believe and real life then they are fine.
If not then yu have a promblem!and I could understand not leting your kids watch some of those tv shows.JM

kids dont know the diffrence

I dont know why everything in this world has to be sanitized to agree with 7 year olds.

Use the V chip! nerd

The media, T.V., movies and video games hve gotten much more violent than in the past. And you know who buys and pays for most of it? Parents. Parents buy these video games for their kids or pay for the movies or cable t.v. If the demand is there, people will make it.

Perhaps parents should get a fricken clue as to what their children are doing and watching and stop blaming everyone else for their complete lack of parental ability.

Just a thought.

So, I've been collecting some old serials. Captain Marvel gunning down fleeing arabs, people being dropped into spike-lined pits, people being crushed in avalanches, people being tortured in spike-lined cages, people being gassed to death, a fist-fight in every episode . . . remind me again when movies and television weren't violent?

I'm not saying that movies in general haven't gotten more violent, but I'd say that Power Rangers is no more violent than, say, the Phantom serial was.

violence on tv isnt a problem as long as it isnt in programs specifically targetting kids. cartoon network has a more adult audience. its when the tweenies start beating each other up that parents need to start worrying.

no

There should be more violence on TV.

Reality TV just sucks big time.

I like violent movies.

winddancer i totally agree with u on both statements

Exactly. There was a hostage situation in California yesterday. The news has been reporting about it since then. The gunman was shot in the head, and this morning when they were reporting it, they just showed the same five second clip of the guy getting his head blown off over and over and over again.

Excellent descision, I think.

that stupid

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Ohhhh how cruel I think Ill go cry becuase someone corrected my grammer

Hey Jackie, looks like you've found someone to be the dad.

Scarpa say's: You suck

Darth says: shut up.

There's nothing wrong with having violence on TV, for the simple reason that parents shouldn't be letting their kids watch that stuff anyways.

And you blow, so we're even.

In the imortal words of the band Slipknot: What dosent kill us makes us stronger

So, what?..like..sticks and stones?

Both of you shut it, please.

"There's nothing wrong with having violence on TV, for the simple reason that parents shouldn't be letting their kids watch that stuff anyways."

If you take the risk of letting your kid watch something risky, without paying heed to the warnings, your own fault.

-AC

No, in fact, I think there should be more violence on TV just to spite irresponsible parents who are to busy watching "Everybody Loves Ramond" rather then monitoring what their kids are doing.

I applaud any adult that wont let a kid watch power rangers, that show sucks.

The part of your question I don't get is "these days" ? are you suggesting that Tom and Jerry or the 3 Stooges are less violent that Ed N' Eddy?

Actly Scarpa is a friend of mined.You have a promblem with him or her and then you have a promblem with me.Anyway like BF was saying that is true.
I am acouse talking about younger kids.Ages five to ten.When most parents do pay attention to what there kids are watching.Inleast acouse they both work and all.
But that is another subject.So my question is are those parents been over protected?I mean just because something happens on these cartoons does not mean your kids would do them!
Am I right?JM

Violence on TV - see this is whats perculier. Many things get sensored from TV as being too sexualy explicit or way too violent - yet Bible everyone can read - the one book which is full of sex and violence. Cruel irony.

Well it looks like we won't be having any more 'problems' with him looks like he's been banned.

you DO realise this is an internet forum right?
there is this pic somewhere that says "argueing over the internet is like the special olympics, no matter if you win, you're still a retard" so cut the crap on "then you have a problem with me"... if this was REAL life and you were a 25 year old bodybuilder THEN it has an effect. NOT when you can simply put someone on ignore and get over it


you can go and ban what you seem is violant then, but does it matter?
have you seen disney movies? the so-called friendly movies...
people/animals die in it, step-family is portrayed as evil, etc. did those movies up till now make those kids insane or nuts or whatever?
not that I know of... so no ban on those then... and if you don't do those, why others?


those parents should then also not let them see the news, not now not ever...

I would let my kids watch the news. So that they can see it with their own eyes that this world is full of crime and violence. Is a great introduction for kids to see the crappy world we live in.

And certain websites, literature, video games, toys, even peer-to-peer interaction the list goes on.

you caught my hinting

Me ?

Hey you cut the crap and I will!Another person to add to my list.Boy you guys get angry over nothering.I said nothering about banning tv shows.Where is that in any of my posts?
NO where.Now lets stop this and get on with the subject ok?This is not a flame war thread.If you want to go make your own thread about flaming go right ahead.
But please keep it out of this thread.Thank you!JM

What list out of curiosity ?

yeah, about if you start banning things for the kids to see on the tv, you gotta ban other stuff too



oh djee, do you even read who posts what? I did not post in that little flamewar that happened with your friend! I was OFFLINE even
what I said is that all this crap of "you have a problem with him, then you get one with me" is good for retards, if you got a problem with someone use the ignorefunction. It is why it's there for. Then you can just enjoy the forums without people you don't like bothering you.

and no you didn't say anything about banning tv shows, I did. If people find there is too much violence on the tv, their first step would be to ban certain things (before definitly pulling the plug on it). That is why I mention it, PLEASE read posts more carefully next time.

and about your last two phrases:
flaming is prohibited, making a thread will only result into it getting closed... and perhaps the creator banned for stupidity

and saying "keep it out of this thread" only works if you are a mod or admin, you as member have no power over this

I canCF! agree withCF! anyoneCF! who believesCF! that limiting violenceCF! on TV is panderingCF! to seven year oldsCF! The violenceCF! that existsCF! on TV and children'sCF! exposureCF! to it are theCF! responsiblity CF of the parentsCF!

Ooooh! A certain SOMEBODY is going to add CF to her annore list! fish

If I'm not already, then it would be an honor to join such esteemed company


pg 20 something of the homosexuality thread:

I'm on it, you can see her ignore list in her profile

Where exactly ?

Near the bottom.

Found it, thanks

"Do you think these parents are overreacting over nothering are they right?"

No.

And what does "Nothering" mean?

Reality TV does suck with the exception of Real World/Road Rules: Battle of the Sexes.

Frankly, I'm amazed that I'm not since I think I was the first one to come out and tell her how dumb she sounded

We should start a "I'm on JM's ignore list!" cult if you can get on it

That is such a good idea!

Nivek!!!

I agree

Its not that thiers to much violence, its that thier are to many overprotective soccor moms.

No, it's all in the eye of the viewer. I watch violent movies, tv shows, play violent video games, shooters, the works. Movies were women are abused and the such, and I've never given thought to harming my girlfriend, or any of my friends, nor the thought to have the heart to shoot a human being, or murder them somehow, etc.

I could see why this topic was made by who it was also.

why is it the idiot who starts these threads never bothers to contribute beyond the initial post?

Its real easy folks......censorship is NEVER acceptable, monitor what your kids watch in accordance with your own views. End of story.

THANK YOU, Bilbs!!!

So censorship is NEVER acceptable - NEVER!!!! Oh, unless you are a parent censoring what your kids watch?

So you contradict yourself in the space of 6 words and thats the End of story - and have the gall to say Jm is an idiot. Sheesh.

but there already is a "I'm on JM's ignore list!" cult. its called "KMC",

and on a grander scale, "Reality"

I say there's not enough violence! What is it with those wimps on WWF and WWRaw any way? Weeners! My grandmother would kick their ass! I say more violence! I say put those meat monkeys in a steel cage, give them chainsaws and don't let them come out until somebody's head is sawn off!

Yay for blood and guts! Give me some real entertainment! What am I paying a tv license for? So people can pretend to beat each other up? Enough with the fake violence! Enough with the special effects!

Give me violence or give me nothing!
Yay!
Violence!

it seems today, that all u c, is violence in movies and sex in tv

No, what she's saying is that if parents would bother to keep track of what their kids are watching, there wouldn't be such a stink about censoring what's on TV.

Whatever you think she meant - It's there in black and white.

"censorship is NEVER acceptable, monitor what your kids watch"

Its a direct contradiction.

JM is owned...

its not a direct contradiction.

a mother and father parenting their child,
and the government parenting EVERYONE are two
entierly different things.

No. You think they are two different things - that doesnt make them different.

You think it's acceptable for a parent to decide what it's child can watch or see or read. You think it's wrong for the state to do similarly. I dont care either way which is wrong or right: what i'm saying is they are both a type of censorship: any moron can see that.

Different as all hell, one acceptable to some people not to another both to some and neither to some but they both are censorship of material.

If someone says all censorship is bad "NEVER acceptable" (never in block caps in case we were in any doubt) and the next word - the NEXT word is advocating censorship - just a different form of censorship - then they need to rethink.

MrZ is absolutely right. Its direct contradiction.

Censorship is censorship no matter in what form. The only difference here he mentioned is that one censorship is on a macro and the other on the micro level - in context they are EXACTLY the same.

The first Real World was okayish. From then on it was pretend to act soap opera cast members. The way I see it networks are losing money by not putting more violence on TV. Betcha that if they were to televise a Public Execution from Death Row the ratings would sky rocket.

Well Zero, you've convinced me, parents should not censor what their children watch, when I have kids, the first thing they're watching is Audition.

And for the record, "The Real World" is an awful show, regaurdless of what season we're talking about.

I agree Real World is pathetic.

and censorship is fine. I'm telling my kids how to think all the way until they're 12. Then, I'm sending them to Taiwan to get a quality education putting together Nike's in a sweatshop.

Oh don't go twisting my wordsa to abdicate your parental res...AH! THE IDEA OF YOU BREEDING!! AAAARGH!! AAARRGHHH!! MY BRAIN!!!

It does make me laugh how there's warnings on before wrestling. Not the fact that there's warnings just the fact that many a parent has gone "Bah. It's only wrestling, how bad can it be? Go ahead Jonny, watch it."

Then the Kid goes an gives a kid in the playground a neckbreaker and the WWE get sued.

If you ignore the warnings, whatever happens after that is your own problem.

-AC

oh COME ON!!!! lets get out of the 'technical zone' and think practically shall we?

the f.c.c. fining howard stern for saying "balloon knot"
is not of the same caliber as a mother forbiding her 8 year old kid
from watching a porno. the mother is doing her parental duty, and the
f.c.c. is being a bunch of nazis.

there is family and there is law. WRITTEN ENFORCABLE LAW.

whether a parent decides that their kids should watch this, but not watch that is not written into law. its the rules of that particular household, and it should be up to those parents what the law of that house is.

now, when you have big government playing parent for the general public, and ENFORCING LAW based on those parental rules...thats moving into the 'creepy zone'. now i know there are exceptions, we cant have 'debbie does dallas' on the air along side saturday morning cartoons, so resonable regulation and common sense are always needed. but to nitpick and say we cant have ANY violence on the tv because children are always watching is bullshit.

its not a black and white issue, but i think society as a whole has settled on a comfortable medium, but the unsilent minority of cencorship freaks want ALL media to be rated G, so they can just let the TV raise their kids without any worries.

"So the FCC won't let me be
or let me be me, so let me see
They try to shut me down on MTV
But it feels so empty, without me"
- Without Me of Eminem

damn Teletubbies

it started with them and escalated . now no one can watch it with out feeling the urge to hit something.......or puke

LaLa

I'd never allow my kids to watch teletubbies, I dont want them to grow up thinking it's alright to parade around jabbering like a weirdo!

I think it's the parents job to know whats right and whats wrong, but I think banning power rangers and stuff like that is over reacting...

Yea I argee it is the parents control to see what kid's watch.Younger kids that is.Trying to stop a teenager from watching something is like stoping everyone from breathing!lol!
Tubby toast?Tubby toast!jm

Great points! Not only are is the F.C.C and the MPAA are pack of Nazi's but is also all those idiots that support them too. Censorship=BS.

i think that there is too much violence on tv, but imo some of the shows are not made for little kids
but also the shows made for little kids (eg. teletubies) are scary cry

make world peace and THEN someone should go about violence on the tv

what do you want your kids to believe? that you're in happy-happy-joy-joy land and when they do finally get outside they get traumatised cause it isn't?

yawn

yep there is too much violence on tv...isnt it great

yeah, sex, sex, sex, food, commercials, cavemen, and women and men showing off bright white teeth.

commercials need to be cut down.

It isn't too bad in england but I understand that in Australia and the USA that you can't watch TV for 5 minutes without having ads coming up on the TV.

No, there isn't.

i seen a steamy breast during a saturday night commercial.

Steamy?

i want to be in happy-happy-joy-joy world cry

and that the thing, there is more violence in shows like news than in movies

then it's time that the world becomes a better place

high time, but i didn't figure out how to make it yet

pretty easy... kill bush, kill blair and you're halfway there

tempting idea, but it wouldn't be enough