TV's Frink said:
Quackula said:
Would twooffour actually being a parent have really changed whether his thoughts on the idea of refusing to allow your children to see things based on your opinion of them are valid or not?
I think it could, theoretically. Having a child and interacting with that child on a daily basis changes a lot of your views on things, and not all these things are "serious parenting issues."
xhonzi's decision is a parenting issue, no matter how minor the issue may be (to you or him). He's not dealing with another adult. To call his parenting decision absurd is condescending, insulting, and frankly....absurd.
So according to this logic, calling any kind of parenting decision absurd is condescending, insulting and absurd, simply for the act of criticizing someone else's approach to parenting, right?
I hope, and I'm sure I do NOT need to elaborate any further ;)
And you would have to come up with a bit more than "maybe, theoretically, you know, his opinions could somehow CHANGE on a lot of things if he had a child" in order to justify your mild attack on my posts.
I mean, you're posting on a forum here, bring something interesting to the table! Whether it's an actual response to someone's post, or a nice, helpful explanation HOW having kids could change one's opinions on influencing their kids' popcultural preferences in questionable and logically inconsistent manners!
Because this sort of generalized "well, you're not a parent, so technically, you know, maybe" is simply not interesting at all.
Hey, I sure do comprehend the INSTINCT. We're all potential nerds, we're all potential fanboys, and we all potentially like to share our preferences with others, or influence their opinions in a way we find good, or want.
At our simplest, we also really like and feel relief when someone else likes what we like, or is blown away but what we're blown away by.
So then, you get kids... you really, really love bigband but hate, hate hair metal, so the natural impulse is, obviously, starting exposing your offspring to bigband, and trying not to draw their attention too much to hair metal.
It's at this point you're supposed to USE YOUR CRITICAL THOUGHT, look at yourself, and ask: "Am I really doing what is best for my child, or am I trying to imprint too much of myself on him? Am I responsibly raising a human being here, or am I creating a mini-me in my image? Ok, guess it's okay that he kinda grows up in my environment so stuff gets imprinted regardless, and we all like sharing stuff with our friends, too, right? But at what point am I OVERDOING it? At what point does the joy of sharing stuff turn into a struggle for self-affirmation by trying to make someone else agree with me that A New Hope is "genius"?"
And then, of course, the obvious one: "Am I an educated cineast striving for good taste and critical thought, or am I just a huge Space Nerd with a opinionated views?" :P
And that's really what it all boils down to, isn't it? Somehow, if you look at this way, your suggestion that I might change my views if I were an adult and had children seems to carry a hidden, and certainly unintentional implication - that, if I were an adult, and a parent, I'd also be a huger nerd :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDPPPP