Superheroes Movies Set Bad Example, Says Psychologist
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I wish people would understand that kids don't just get their hands on R movies and M videogames by themselves. The parents decide whether or not they believe their kids are responsible enough to handle the mature themes of these contents. And I'd like to point out that I'm not blaming the parents, either.
If we're supposed to blame something for all of society's problems, I say we blame the people who try to blame all of society's problems on something (it's all your fault, Sharon Lamb...)
You just supported my statement. They were not created to be appealing or to please a target audience, they were created to be good examples, and inspire people. Superheroes were not about believability. They were motivation to do the right thing. Inspiration to do good deeds.Zeromaeus said:
I'll agree that Tony Stark probably isn't the best role model for young children. But he's an action hero, not a role model. That's about the time the parent should be explaining this to the child, not society yelling at the movie.
It always comes back to parenting.
It always comes back to parenting.
I guess doctor Lamb got her PhD in retarded theory with that paper. Long story short 99 percent of the fiction characters are not suitable for role models (Kain and Abel, Don Quixote, Optimus Prime, etc.) Best role models come from real people, that is where parents should point when trying to teach their children role models.
It would be great to take Iron Man as role model, specially the get rich and do fun stuff, but even with the limitless powers of the internets i don't really think that many children can get that rich really fast.
Anyways if she is so desperate to protect the children i would suggest her to leave comic super heroes alone and start to look at bigger threats to them like real weapons manufacturers, drugs, retarded psychologists.
It would be great to take Iron Man as role model, specially the get rich and do fun stuff, but even with the limitless powers of the internets i don't really think that many children can get that rich really fast.
Anyways if she is so desperate to protect the children i would suggest her to leave comic super heroes alone and start to look at bigger threats to them like real weapons manufacturers, drugs, retarded psychologists.
Heroes aren't supposed to be Jesus. If a hero is too perfect, he's boring and irritating. Heroes in and out of costume are still people. If we ignore the humanity of super heroes, we trade narrative depth and writing integrity to better preach our own particular brand of morality, a la 1950s Superman, flying out to battle Nazis and Communism.
I love Watchmen because it never lets you forget that no hero, no matter how powerful, is not a human being. Even Jon was extremely human and vulnerable in certain particular ways.
I love Watchmen because it never lets you forget that no hero, no matter how powerful, is not a human being. Even Jon was extremely human and vulnerable in certain particular ways.
For me, this is right on the money. Superhero movies are like Team America: World Police without the irony. Like it's seriously the duty of big-muscled dudes to remodel the world in their image. I don't get what's to like about them.
And no-one is placing blame for anything, just warning about some possible effects.
And no-one is placing blame for anything, just warning about some possible effects.
Would children try and emulate their heroes, if they had their own sense of identity and didn't need such fantasies? lots of people scape goat and such, but in the end the behavior comes down to general unhappiness. if Dr. Sharon Lamb was instead of blaming fantasy characters, trying to find out why these children were trying to emulate these heroes she might accomplish ten times more.
Oh yes, because how dare the character's be interesting. Part of the fun of the way many modern superheroes are portrayed is that, despite their problems, they're still good in the end. Do you want us to revert to the original, anti-communist propaganda Iron Man?
Yet without flaws, superheros would have nothing to learn and therefore have no moral message to put forward.
Even going off the Iron Man movie Tony Stark was a man who learned a lot, he ultimately moved away from his families business of death and killing and used his talent for a greater good, to help people. Kids don't look much further than that, they can't usually notice a lot references adults pick up on, this is why people like this are hacks and don't deserve to be in their field of work. They do not understand the people they study.
If people look to far past the basic message superheros embody and put forward, they wouldn't be as popular as they are today.
Even going off the Iron Man movie Tony Stark was a man who learned a lot, he ultimately moved away from his families business of death and killing and used his talent for a greater good, to help people. Kids don't look much further than that, they can't usually notice a lot references adults pick up on, this is why people like this are hacks and don't deserve to be in their field of work. They do not understand the people they study.
If people look to far past the basic message superheros embody and put forward, they wouldn't be as popular as they are today.
I can think of nothing manlier than exploiting women, flaunting bling, and conveying the size of my colossal testicles to the world via bazookas. Is this woman saying we shouldn't be manly men, but rather whipped. And is she saying we shouldn't emulate Robert Downey Jr.?
