Is There Too Much Bullying in Children's Cartoon Shows These Days?
While I hesitate to name names, some children's shows and primetime programming is clearly not made with good apples like me in mind. I'm okay with that, but when influential Children's Shows like Family Guy, American Dad, SpongBob SquarePants, Phineas and Ferb, and Avatar the Last Airbender go out of their way to promote bullying even if "it's just the badguys", let's face it. Being an asshole is being an asshole. Mean is Mean, and bullying is bullying. If the goodguys are bullying the bad guys, they cease to be bad guys, and hence mutate their character and internal moral drive into that of the sociopath.
But yeah, Bullying in kids TV. Not something people used to have to deal with in the 80s and 90s. There WEREN'T any bully kids shows in the 80s and 90s. This is a reflection on the times, and a serious reflection of the decline of the society we live in, that even children's animation is encouraging you to bully others.
I'm not a bully in real life, I never have been, but I know a bully when I see one. And I see plenty of them in Hollywood recently. If bully's are running the show, which they are, suddenly EVERYONE becomes a bully!
Do we really want our society to turn into this???
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