So i'm a 20 year old college student studying spongebob
I'm taking a communication devlopment in children class and I need to analayze a children's tv show. Most people are doing loser shows like clifford the dog and Mr.Roger's neighborhood. I went searching for a show I could appeal to. The new ninja turtles is kinda bad, and they don't make GI Joe anymore. When I sit in class and I hear all this stuff about television perpetuating bad behavior in children I really begin to look back at my life and how I grew up.
As A child I watched shows like The Ninja Turtles, Spider Man, X-men, G.I Joe, and others. These were all shows with no real substance whatsoever. The thing is that I turned out normal, or at least I think I did. Sure shows like Ninja Turtles may have made me and my friends play more violent kinds of games "I got my sword I'm going to kill you!" or make us sexist "You can only be April because you're a girl", but I think those kind of shows set gender roles right at an early age. On the topic of making violence, I think games like football were just as violent, and what dad isn't going to let their kids watch sports with them.
Girls watched girl shows and guys watched guy shows. that seemed to be the way it is, but now every show needs to be 100% politically correct. Going back to my ninja turtle comparison. The old show has April in the helpless woman role, but the new one has her as this strong character who fights with the turtles. She's a reporter! They don't fight ! I'm not condoning sexism, but when it comes to talking rats and turtles I think we can get away with the woman being in trouble.
Lets move on to video games, in mario you used to save the princess. In the new Mario the princess is on vacation or something and you need to like clean the town because it's too polluted. I question the end result of a lot of this, and is it more tolerant children, or a complete mix up of gender roles in society.
This all ties in my viewing of spongebob for my project. I was supposed to view this show to demonstrate what a bad show for children is supposed to be like. Honestly there isn't much in the show, its just a lot of crass jokes and a small lesson to be learned. However I won't 100% count it out of having some substance. The creators of the show are genius' first because they were able to create a show that they'd have unlimited ideas for that children will eat up, and a host of marketable characters. When you get through all the bad it's a stimulating and enjoying program, and I don't think children need every single thing they watch to be educational. Those kids turn out 'weird'
yes the sheltered weird kid syndrome. I have a real life example to relate this to, and while it's just one situation I beg you the reader to find relavance in it.
Subject A: Lawrence, right off the bat Lawrence is a puss name, and I would of opted to call the kid Larry all the time. I grew up somewhat close in age to this kid and recall several situation where I would be viewing Ren and Stimpy and his mother would forbid him. The only movies he was allowed to watch were like Mary Popping and Tommy the Train or something. While other factors are at play here, a very sheltered upbringing, I believe this kid was being wussified all his life as he grew up. (Yes I kind of tarnish my character by using the word wussified). This kid is rougly 19 years old and having extreme social problems.
Subject B: Is a lot of people I knew growing up who enjoyed all the media they wanted and turned out fine.
So what I guess I'm trying to get at here is that a lot of the shows on tv today are striving too hard to be politically correct and are making quite a mess.
Funny thing I found on Spongebob, turns out its a right wing christian coallition's worst nightmare.
It's obvious that SpongeBob advocates a blatantly homosexual, anti-Christian agenda, but what about his cohorts? Let's start with Patrick. Patrick is a pink starfish, and that pretty much says it all. Pink! Clearly the creators of the show intend Patrick to represent the members of Code Pink, a lesbian women's organization advocating radical ideas like peace in a time of war. Despite his somewhat deeper voice, Patrick obviously plays the "female" role in the relationship with SpongeBob, as his color indicates. However, his illustrators further the obscenity by drawing him with five obviously phallic limbs. Clearly Patrick is a perversion of the highest order.
taken from SpongeBob SquarePants: A Menace to Society
Well I havent posted in a while so it felt good to get some feelings out
As A child I watched shows like The Ninja Turtles, Spider Man, X-men, G.I Joe, and others. These were all shows with no real substance whatsoever. The thing is that I turned out normal, or at least I think I did. Sure shows like Ninja Turtles may have made me and my friends play more violent kinds of games "I got my sword I'm going to kill you!" or make us sexist "You can only be April because you're a girl", but I think those kind of shows set gender roles right at an early age. On the topic of making violence, I think games like football were just as violent, and what dad isn't going to let their kids watch sports with them.
Girls watched girl shows and guys watched guy shows. that seemed to be the way it is, but now every show needs to be 100% politically correct. Going back to my ninja turtle comparison. The old show has April in the helpless woman role, but the new one has her as this strong character who fights with the turtles. She's a reporter! They don't fight ! I'm not condoning sexism, but when it comes to talking rats and turtles I think we can get away with the woman being in trouble.
Lets move on to video games, in mario you used to save the princess. In the new Mario the princess is on vacation or something and you need to like clean the town because it's too polluted. I question the end result of a lot of this, and is it more tolerant children, or a complete mix up of gender roles in society.
This all ties in my viewing of spongebob for my project. I was supposed to view this show to demonstrate what a bad show for children is supposed to be like. Honestly there isn't much in the show, its just a lot of crass jokes and a small lesson to be learned. However I won't 100% count it out of having some substance. The creators of the show are genius' first because they were able to create a show that they'd have unlimited ideas for that children will eat up, and a host of marketable characters. When you get through all the bad it's a stimulating and enjoying program, and I don't think children need every single thing they watch to be educational. Those kids turn out 'weird'
yes the sheltered weird kid syndrome. I have a real life example to relate this to, and while it's just one situation I beg you the reader to find relavance in it.
Subject A: Lawrence, right off the bat Lawrence is a puss name, and I would of opted to call the kid Larry all the time. I grew up somewhat close in age to this kid and recall several situation where I would be viewing Ren and Stimpy and his mother would forbid him. The only movies he was allowed to watch were like Mary Popping and Tommy the Train or something. While other factors are at play here, a very sheltered upbringing, I believe this kid was being wussified all his life as he grew up. (Yes I kind of tarnish my character by using the word wussified). This kid is rougly 19 years old and having extreme social problems.
Subject B: Is a lot of people I knew growing up who enjoyed all the media they wanted and turned out fine.
So what I guess I'm trying to get at here is that a lot of the shows on tv today are striving too hard to be politically correct and are making quite a mess.
Funny thing I found on Spongebob, turns out its a right wing christian coallition's worst nightmare.
It's obvious that SpongeBob advocates a blatantly homosexual, anti-Christian agenda, but what about his cohorts? Let's start with Patrick. Patrick is a pink starfish, and that pretty much says it all. Pink! Clearly the creators of the show intend Patrick to represent the members of Code Pink, a lesbian women's organization advocating radical ideas like peace in a time of war. Despite his somewhat deeper voice, Patrick obviously plays the "female" role in the relationship with SpongeBob, as his color indicates. However, his illustrators further the obscenity by drawing him with five obviously phallic limbs. Clearly Patrick is a perversion of the highest order.
taken from SpongeBob SquarePants: A Menace to Society
Well I havent posted in a while so it felt good to get some feelings out
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At 1:55 PM, Anonymous said…
: Below is a great op-ed piece by William Safire in the NY Times (Monday 16 Feb) - he has generally been quite skeptical about "big media" and this article discusses how he predicts regulators will react to the proposed merger.
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: Safire is worried about one company "controlling" too much information, but there is also the issue that less competition will lead to less-quality content (and if you turn on your TV, you will see that things are bad enough already....)
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