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Graphic violence generally is considered adult content. Let’s not pretend slapstick comedy is the same as graphic violence. Furthermore, you/kids definitely see

by dcow 1y ago

Graphic violence generally is considered adult content. Let’s not pretend slapstick comedy is the same as graphic violence. Furthermore, you/kids definitely see cartoons where one character is enamored with another (heart eyes jumping out of sockets) and pursues that character for the entirety of the episode.

danbruc 1y ago
I am not even talking about really graphic violence, just your run of the mill crime story, shooting your husband to get the life insurance.
- dcow 1y ago
  Well that’s not considered adult in any jurisdiction I know of. Maybe PG-13 at most.
  - danbruc 1y ago
    I mean that is the point. What happens to the rating if the women does not shoot at her husband but opens her bathrobe and starts undressing him?
    - dcow 1y ago
      Nothing. In the US that’d be PG-13 too.
      - danbruc 1y ago
        Really? From a quick search I would have assumed it becomes R rated pretty quickly because of sexually oriented nudity.
- andrewinardeer 1y ago
  Violence is normalised due to gun culture in America. Hollywood plays a part in this too. School shootings which is basically a daily event and a unique bug/feature of American life is a symptom of this. Sex and procreation which is arguably the complete opposite to murder is ostrasized because of it.
jimmydddd 1y ago
Let's take Star Wars. Not "graphic," but a lot of killing going on. Some would argue that making the killing less "graphic" actually desensitizes children to the violence.
drewcoo 1y ago
"Graphic violence" meant "violence in images" in my lifetime. Because so many people "learn" words by guessing their meaning from context, it now means what Anthony Burgess called "ultraviolence" in A Clockwork Orange. Cartoons have already had several re-thinking of what's appropriate as norms have changed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven
- haskellshill 1y ago
  > "Graphic violence" meant "violence in images" in my lifetime. I doubt that > graphic (adj.) "vivid, describing accurately ," 1660s (graphically "vividly" is from 1570s) [...] Meaning "pertaining to drawing" is from 1756. https://www.etymonline.com/word/graphic https://www.etymonline.com/word/graphic

by dcow 1y ago

danbruc 1y ago

I am not even talking about really graphic violence, just your run of the mill crime story, shooting your husband to get the life insurance.

dcow 1y ago
Well that’s not considered adult in any jurisdiction I know of. Maybe PG-13 at most.
- danbruc 1y ago
  I mean that is the point. What happens to the rating if the women does not shoot at her husband but opens her bathrobe and starts undressing him?
  - dcow 1y ago
    Nothing. In the US that’d be PG-13 too.
    - danbruc 1y ago
      Really? From a quick search I would have assumed it becomes R rated pretty quickly because of sexually oriented nudity.
andrewinardeer 1y ago
Violence is normalised due to gun culture in America. Hollywood plays a part in this too. School shootings which is basically a daily event and a unique bug/feature of American life is a symptom of this. Sex and procreation which is arguably the complete opposite to murder is ostrasized because of it.

jimmydddd 1y ago

Let's take Star Wars. Not "graphic," but a lot of killing going on. Some would argue that making the killing less "graphic" actually desensitizes children to the violence.

drewcoo 1y ago

"Graphic violence" meant "violence in images" in my lifetime. Because so many people "learn" words by guessing their meaning from context, it now means what Anthony Burgess called "ultraviolence" in A Clockwork Orange. Cartoons have already had several re-thinking of what's appropriate as norms have changed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven

haskellshill 1y ago
> "Graphic violence" meant "violence in images" in my lifetime. I doubt that > graphic (adj.) "vivid, describing accurately ," 1660s (graphically "vividly" is from 1570s) [...] Meaning "pertaining to drawing" is from 1756. https://www.etymonline.com/word/graphic https://www.etymonline.com/word/graphic