Cartoons, it's what we all grew up on and our kids growing up on. I still enjoy watching the cartoons I watched as a kid. As I sit there and watch them, I start to realize just how twisted they are.
One of the first Mickey cartoons, Mickey was abusive to animals. He pulled a cat's tail & twirled the cat around. He also used the animals as musical instruments in some of the worst ways. You knew the animals didn't like it either.
Bugs Bunny was bad too. There was violence and cross dressing (was Bugs gay?). Cross dressing isn't wrong but kinda weird for a kids cartoon. In Popeye, there was violence, kidnapping, bullying and abuse towards women.
In Snow White, you have witch craft, emotional abuse, trespassing, murder, kissing the dead and a zombie. I also question how on earth would Snow White's body not decay, why would the dwarfs put the key to the jewel vault right next to the door and why would the prince & Snow White go off together when they no nothing of each other?
How about those Christmas classic cartoons? In Santa is coming to town, there is trespassing into other people's homes, abandonment, breaking laws (even though the law is stupid, it's still wrong) and you have to question about a stranger going to town & giving kids toys (see other Twisted blog coming soon). Rudolph has bullying including from a parent & Santa himself. There is also some discrimination.
Even though all these things are in our kid's cartoons, it's still fun to watch them and there is nothing wrong with letting a kid see them. Kids just don't understand what is really going on, they just see the really good story going on right before their eyes. Kids can see things in a different point of view than us adults and their view can be a lot better than ours. It's kinda of sad actually. That is probably one of the reasons why I will continue to watch kid shows and movies, to see them through the innocent eyes of a child & enjoying what I see.
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