Cute animal cartoons reinforce nuclear families, gender roles, racism and homophobia

[novasteve]

Children?s media use animals to reinforce ?racist norms?: researcher | Canada | News | National Post

Every day liberals out insane themselves.

What a bunch of mutants. Retards and deviants. Only a liberal could be this fucked in the head.

 

[Ragnar]

What do you expect a person with a humanities degree to do all day other than sit around and judge cartoons and children's books?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

This has always been done. The use of characters that are sympathetic to the target audience is Mad Ave 101.

Earlier today, the discussion was about a semi-nude man with a picnic cloth covering his private parts being used to sell salad dressing, sexy girls wearing skimpy swim suits are used to sell all sorts of things and yes, it starts with kids and kids' books.

And, smokers loved the Joe Camel thing that was geared to get kids to smoke.

There are literally thousands of examples of this. What's the big mystery?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

And, many people learned to hate wolves from Red Riding Hood.

 

[Mad Scientist]

And, many people learned to hate wolves from Red Riding Hood.

That story was concocted by Madison Avenue?

 

[novasteve]

How about they use cartoons to get gays to use condoms so they don't constitute such a large percentage of HIV infections?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

And, many people learned to hate wolves from Red Riding Hood.

That story was concocted by Madison Avenue?

If (editorial) "you" didn't spend so much time and energy looking for things to fight about ...

Read the OP. It concerned reading fictional books to kids and then

extrapolated to commercial uses.

 

[AmyNation]

It's Canada *shrug*.

 

[novasteve]

They perpetuate cisgendered and heteronormative norms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OUTRAGE!!!!

 

[TheOldSchool]

Here's a good one for you steve-o