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Date Posted: 21:20:44 12/19/03 Fri
Author: Mouse
Subject: Kill the media!!!
In reply to: Erin 's message, ":)" on 17:35:17 12/19/03 Fri

We didn't seem to have this problem until TV started showing cartoons that had boyfriends in Elementary School. Like the what’s-its-name show on Nickelodeon... Ginger? I told Ginger? Something like that. Anyway, the girl's little brother, who was in Elementary School and could be no older than ten, had a girlfriend and they kept going on and on and on about the deep emotions of lurve. It is also a proven fact that kids learn from their surroundings, so why in the world do parents insist on keeping their children in R-rated movies with sexual content? The day I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean (for the third time), this mother -finally- decided to take her screaming two-year old outside. Or at least, that's what I thought she was doing. Turns out she just took said baby to the front of the hallway that leads into the theater. For lords sake, give us all some peace and wait for the video! The child was clearly mortified by the giant skeletons and hanging flesh. Not to mention that comment about nakedness. Why should a learning, growing child be shown that sort of grown-up content? It makes no sense.

And I never understood why the play Romeo and Juliet was supposed to teach us about love. I mean, it's riddled with body and hidden profanities, only to have two kids kill themselves over said emotion. Maturity, not being something that runs rampant among my peers, is something that I deem is needed to understand Romeo and Juliet. Otherwise the guys just skip straight to the suicide scene and the girls read about the balcony calling. So educational.

I have always been taught by my parents that waiting is important in love, so I always described the feelings I felt towards guys as me assessing traits that I would look for in possible mates later on in life. But everybody else was kissing out behind the buildings, mourning because he didn't like she, and generally acting like fools. And all because, while I was watching Rugrats, they were watching Boy Meets World and trying to act out the lives of the characters in their own little dramas. I never did understand my classmates.

And then we got out of Elementary School and into Jr. High. At sixth grade everybody asked me whether or not I was going to "go out". After asking them where they went out with their boyfriends without a car or parental permission, I said no because I had around five years of school left. Plenty of time for me. And then in seventh grade, the same process was repeated. But then, when we all hit the top of the Middle School food chain at eighth grade, suddenly everyone was looking down at the sixth and seventh graders for acting so old while, in a clear display of oxymoron, clinging to their current fancy. Whenever any of my friends talked about how stupid the lower grades were for acting such, I could just barely stop myself from first pointing out that they had done the exact same thing, then shouting to their faces "I told you so" repeatedly. Nobody ever listens to me at school! I'm just trying to care.... *sob at being misunderstood* Well, at least insanity seems to not be a problem here. O.O Anyway, I agree that kids are acting like teenagers. What are they going to do when they really are teenagers, I ask you?

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