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Sure. Also, porn, romance novels, high school social life, prison, mafia, war, psychotherapy... The world is full of examples where literary cliches have more
by dalbasal 5y ago
Sure. Also, porn, romance novels, high school social life, prison, mafia, war, psychotherapy...
The world is full of examples where literary cliches have more influence on our biases and expectations than first or second hand experiences. We rarely observe other people falling in love, but we see it in movies and stories all the time.
Hence why this article is subtly brilliant. It reminds us how much of our "knowledge" is actually fiction.
- dmix 5y agoA big one is 30+ year olds writing the screenplays and therefore dialogue of kids and teenagers which are always precocious and seem adult like. Which young people think they should be at a similar stage of development or imitate them.
- ambicapter 5y agoOr they think that what they're saying and thinking will come out similar to how it came out on the tv show...
- bsder 5y agoI find the whole 25 year old playing a 15 year old more problematic. Especially for girls, this gives a tremendously powerful incorrect body image signal. However, even for guys, it's starting to get ridiculous--the actors always have their shirt off, are completely cut and have <5% bodyfat. The only boys who look like that at 15 are short, currently miserable as hell and cutting weight for a tournament (and probably on steroids, to boot).
- rrauenza 5y agoWe steered our kids from all of the Disney Channel tweener sitcoms.. they're awful in that way.
- ako 5y agoTv violence making us think the world is a much more dangerous place than it really is.