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I'm familiar with some of them (primarily criticisms that the nuclear family is the /only/ acceptable family structure where other forms exist and are healthy)
by beaconstudios 5y ago
I'm familiar with some of them (primarily criticisms that the nuclear family is the /only/ acceptable family structure where other forms exist and are healthy) but simply presenting a nuclear family is fairly innocuous.
- tehjoker 5y agoWell yea, but it does implicitly encode a definition of normality and that's a political statement. It's just so deeply ingrained it is not perceptible as nearly everyone involved in creation and consumption has that assumption. EDIT: As I pondered this there are two more angles to consider. (a) Baby Shark is a product of South Korea is at war with North Korea and arguments against nuclear family structure are laid out in the Communist Manifesto (b) some people consider that nuclear family structures are not merely co-existing with other healthy structures, but that the nuclear structure is harmful and other models are superior. I'm not trying to debate these points (not totally sure where I stand myself), but it's helpful to break through the bubble and see what assumptions cultural forces are embedding in media. You can imagine a Baby Shark that talks about the network of relations that care for baby instead of a hierarchical biological lineage.
- beaconstudios 5y agoI'm not sure that a tenuous link to communism based on the location of production, that doesn't make any appearance in the work itself, would be considered a political element (can't believe I just referred to baby shark as "the work"). I get what you're trying to point at but some things don't even make an implicit value statement like it would if baby shark somehow showed the nuclear family as an inherent good. Regardless, that's enough media analysis of kids youtube songs for me for one day!