No, not you, mevmijaumau - this whole thread was started by someone letching over seeing the porn images - probably one of those young boys who find it very exciting to say or write the word 'vagina', bless them.
I used to protect my young children from the news. As you say, horrifying images and stories of true events, about which they can do nothing; I preferred them not to be exposed to such things. I remember on one occasion staying with my in-laws when my daughter was about three, and there had been a terrible fire in an aircraft on the tarmac at Manchester airport, many dead, including children. My father-in-law was very deaf, and insisted on watching every news bulletin, so three times a day my little girl and I had to go for rather unnecessary walks to the park, while the huge voice boomed with BBC clarity all over the house about how several children and their mothers had burned to death... I didn't want her hearing that.
Anime is not necessarily for children - I think people tend to equate it with 'cartoons', quite mistakenly.
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mevmijaumau
8 years ago
I think the news are the most distressing when you're an adult, definitely. Interestingly enough, the TV in our household was always turned on and I was always exposed to news, but it never really bothered me because I couldn't grasp most of it, whereas now I don't watch the news anymore because it's too much negativity for me. I think it's the same for Pom Poko, in fact I think the worst part of the film for a child would be the depressing ending for the raccoon dogs.
I agree that nudity in itself in films isn't harmful to children. When I was a kid, there was a mischievous boy in our kindergarten who'd sometimes flash his penis to girls in order to startle them. Nobody was traumatized because of that, or because of seeing naked people on TV. Apparently, nudity is a synonym to sex to many people.
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