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Bluey prepares kids more for the real world more than the corporate HR messages the US shows have. It's not about checking diversity boxes, it's about handling

Bluey prepares kids more for the real world more than the corporate HR messages the US shows have. It's not about checking diversity boxes, it's about handling your emotions. And yes, we're all tired of "woke" shit, that's not the real world, but it tries to parade as it is.

bcrosby95 3y ago
In my 8 year old's classroom there is: A kid in a wheelchair. Another with mild autism. Another whose being raised by the grandparents because her mother is a drug addict. Another with pretty severe alopecia (this being her "best friend"). One of her other friends has been very sad because her aunt was killed in Israel. This is all "real world". And it affects us despite it not happening to our family. At least not yet.
- theultdev 3y ago
  You teach morals to handle all situations. You don't have to directly have brokenness, sex, rape, drugs, and murder in kids shows even if those things exist in the real world.
  - sophacles 3y ago
    I find it easier to learn abstract things like morals when there are also examples presented along-side them. More so when those examples are practical and applicable to my life. I find this to be a common sentiment. Are you really trying to say that showing brown people and kids with a single parent is equivalent to showing rape and drug use? Perhaps you should pause and reflect on your own morals if you think these are equivalent.
    - theultdev 3y ago
      First off, you brought up someone being killed as a real world struggle, so don't act like I pulled these real world events out of nowhere and tried to equate it to "brown people" (your words) alluding that I'm racist or something. Second, my point was to show you that not everything in the real world needs to be depicted directly in kids shows. Not to make an equivalence of those listed things, but to test the consistency of the logic. Learning morals you can learn how to handle those situations and ideals in the future without being introduced to inappropriate things too early in life. Perhaps you shouldn't try to make an ad-hominem attack on my morals because you can't interpret it correctly. If you didn't understand, you could have asked for clarification.
      - sophacles 3y ago
        I'd argue that encountering people that are slightly different than one's self is a normal daily reality for most people, and that using those people as characters in the protagonists' lives is just making the show relatable. I don't think it's a moral lesson any more than having parents who don't murder every episode is a moral lesson - sure it's an example of decent morals but it's not a lesson in morality. That is to say, using same logic on "depicting brown people" and "depicting rape" is fundamentally flawed, it doesn't make sense to apply the same rules to "proximity to disabled people" and "murder" they aren't remotely in the same category. They are fundamentally different, and even if they were somehow similar enough to apply the same logic, they are not in any way similar in scope, its like claiming that showing a kid keeping a $100 bill they find on the street is somehow the same as showing a kid planning a multibillion dollar crypto heist... they involve different morals, different situations, and different consequences for every single person involved - that is they aren't the same. Further, I never brought up someone being killed - that was a different person. You can tell because we have different usernames.

bcrosby95 3y ago

In my 8 year old's classroom there is: A kid in a wheelchair. Another with mild autism. Another whose being raised by the grandparents because her mother is a drug addict. Another with pretty severe alopecia (this being her "best friend"). One of her other friends has been very sad because her aunt was killed in Israel. This is all "real world". And it affects us despite it not happening to our family. At least not yet.

theultdev 3y ago
You teach morals to handle all situations. You don't have to directly have brokenness, sex, rape, drugs, and murder in kids shows even if those things exist in the real world.
- sophacles 3y ago
  I find it easier to learn abstract things like morals when there are also examples presented along-side them. More so when those examples are practical and applicable to my life. I find this to be a common sentiment. Are you really trying to say that showing brown people and kids with a single parent is equivalent to showing rape and drug use? Perhaps you should pause and reflect on your own morals if you think these are equivalent.
  - theultdev 3y ago
    First off, you brought up someone being killed as a real world struggle, so don't act like I pulled these real world events out of nowhere and tried to equate it to "brown people" (your words) alluding that I'm racist or something. Second, my point was to show you that not everything in the real world needs to be depicted directly in kids shows. Not to make an equivalence of those listed things, but to test the consistency of the logic. Learning morals you can learn how to handle those situations and ideals in the future without being introduced to inappropriate things too early in life. Perhaps you shouldn't try to make an ad-hominem attack on my morals because you can't interpret it correctly. If you didn't understand, you could have asked for clarification.
    - sophacles 3y ago
      I'd argue that encountering people that are slightly different than one's self is a normal daily reality for most people, and that using those people as characters in the protagonists' lives is just making the show relatable. I don't think it's a moral lesson any more than having parents who don't murder every episode is a moral lesson - sure it's an example of decent morals but it's not a lesson in morality. That is to say, using same logic on "depicting brown people" and "depicting rape" is fundamentally flawed, it doesn't make sense to apply the same rules to "proximity to disabled people" and "murder" they aren't remotely in the same category. They are fundamentally different, and even if they were somehow similar enough to apply the same logic, they are not in any way similar in scope, its like claiming that showing a kid keeping a $100 bill they find on the street is somehow the same as showing a kid planning a multibillion dollar crypto heist... they involve different morals, different situations, and different consequences for every single person involved - that is they aren't the same. Further, I never brought up someone being killed - that was a different person. You can tell because we have different usernames.