3518c04180 Timothy Krause says: February 21, 2013 at 2:25 pm Oy, keep your head up, dear Mark. That doesnt offend me, exactly. That idea is not supported in any culture. not gang rapes and humantrafficking. I agree that the sex in GoT is pretty extreme, and I honestly dont know if Id be okay as a parent watching it with a kid that age. I watched Terminator 2 and Akira before I was 10. (That said, Game of Thrones is a horrible example, since it does the worst possible thing by normalising sex-as-violence.) Lachlan Musicman says: February 21, 2013 at 2:48 pm Good answer. Corey Johnson says: February 21, 2013 at 12:23 pm How about we dont censor things? Thats an incredibly bad idea. At least not at that age. Trying to characterize all of America by the actions of one subset is always going to produce a false result.
I am a visual artist and paint life models and I know he sees my art around the house and at my studio and I can say for sure it doesnt affect his personality. Sure, the sex is pretty messed up, but the dark stuff that sticks with me from GoT is absolutely the violence. Sex is not supposed to be evil and violent (or there is no good excuse for it to be so, ever*). Of course, Game of Thrones is pushing the envelope of acceptability even in the West. So the the problem is not that we want to shelter children from the real world as they grow up (i.e. People like Mark are undoubtedly well-intentioned,but theres that saying about the road to hell& foobar says: February 21, 2013 at 2:14 pm So, penetration by a three foot piece of steel is ok, but penis is bad. GawainLavers says: February 21, 2013 at 3:10 pm Except the nightmares.
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