No - I don’t believe in sheltering kids. That’s not to say that they should be forced to be exposed to the bad / ugly things in the world, of course. But some kids are unfortunate enough that they’re exposed to terrible violence in real life. If a little make-believe TV violence is the worst thing they’re exposed to, they are lucky (and in my experience, even the bloodiest, goriest Hollywood stuff doesn’t hold a candle to the traumatizing effects of the real thing). In other words they’ll be fine in the long run, temporary nightmares or not.
And either way, if parents want to shelter anyway then the responsibility for that is 100% theirs. Nobody else should have to compromise on what they enjoy for the sake of somebody else’s overprotective parenting.
My gut says that someone else’s child is someone else’s problem. Incidentally, one of the things I enjoy about not having a child is that I can be a bad influence. With that said, I usually just listen to music (with headphones on) when I’m on a plane. When I listen to something like Six Feet Under’s “Open Coffin Orgy” not only does no one complain, they don’t even know that they could complain.
Ya know, people have really become ridiculous in terms of, for some reason, thinking that flying on an airplane is no different than sitting in an easy chair in their own living room. Regardless of the fact that the airlines have tried to make it as much like that as possible, it isn’t. Flying on a plane is **NOT **a right, it is a privilege. You’re not expected to always wear a jacket & tie anymore, but unless you can afford to fly in a private first-class kiosk seat then no, you can’t uncover your smelly feet, fart, and watch risqué material in mixed company with impunity. Just use common sense, and post-9/11, remain on your best behavior…
Right - it’s part of the price you pay for being whisked to your destination at 1000 km/hr.
Once upon a time you’d have sat on a train or bus for far longer - or on a ship possibly for weeks. And your behavior would have been constrained by social norms all that time.
This. A few years ago I stuffed a bunch of episodes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus into an iPad, intending to view them during a long flight to Japan. Right around the time that I was getting ready to queue up the first episode, I remembered Terry Gilliam’s awesome animations, which figured prominently in the show and often featured naked women. Small potatoes compared to e.g. Marsellus getting raped in Pulp Fiction (or any of the violence in that movie), but ultimately I opted not to watch MPFC on the plane because my attitude was not “fuck everyone else on this plane, I’m watching whatever I want and they don’t matter to me at all.”
During one 2-month voyage to India — though Monsewer de Lesseps’ fancy Canal, of course; otherwise it would have been three times as long * — there was some little rotter who kept sidling up to the ladiez and showing them his ‘drawings’. Now Art is fine, I like a good Landseer or Lady Butler as much as the next man; but it was wearing watching the poor dears collapsing and being dragged to their cabins by brawny stewardesses.
Fortunately a few half-sovereigns distributed to some villainous Lascars meant he went overboard once we cleared the Red Sea.
Choose the milder options. Do you really want to hear a child start to cry because they’re scared by something they see? (Nobody else on the plane wants the kid to start crying.)
I don’t think you’re *obligated *to filter what you watch, but as with most things, just because you *can *do something doesn’t mean you should. No, I don’t think little Tommy is going to be scarred for life by random oogy images that he sees on your computer but if it were me I’d just as soon rather not get the stink eye from his mommy.
Yeah, nice thought. But a visible fraction of this site (and thread) routinely comprises people’s arguments for why they should be allowed their public jerkitude.
Why would you assume that it is acceptable to watch explicit material next to an adult let alone a child? If you really must watch something so violent or sexual buy a privacy screen for your computer.
Back in the early 1970’s, I was just a kid. I worked doing grounds keeping on a mobile home park my family was developing/creating.
Some of the older guys got to talking about the atrocities of WWII. Especial one Dr. Mengele. I have to say, I was much to young to hear about it. About 11 years old. It kept me up nights.
Yep, times have changed. But with ALL the options, why not keep things at PG rated? Or I donno, read a book.
I see this as a “let me make it up to you” situation. If you’re going to impose some sort of unpleasant entertainment upon the child next to you, the polite thing to do is to buy him a scotch.
This is what first came to my mind but realistically I think the screen is more visible than you might think, due to sardine can like set up. If you’re watching on your phone I think that would entail someone actively trying to look at what you’re doing and then all bets are off. Also, no I don’t feel the need to worry about what other adults find offensive. It’s one thing to make certain accommodations for kids; they’re young and nosy and don’t know any better. Adults should be able to resist the urge to keep looking after they’ve caught the initial glimpse of corpse or genital or whatever it is.
Yeah. I find it hard to not-see what’s on the illuminated screen in the seat next to me, even when I have something of my own to focus on. Action movies are the worst, for both video and audio leakage.
If you’re going to be watching these on a laptop, you could use one of those screens I think cost like $20.00 to prevent others seeing your screen unless they are directly in front of it. Use the $30.00 Soundpleast bluetooth earbuds to listen to the audio.