They do?! :eek:
I hope this doesn’t come off as flippant, but a big part of SATC’s attraction is its look, and maybe your daughter is drawn to that. Lots of color, bright spangly jewelry, far-out fashion, sparkly voices, and quick conversation. Something was always going on.
I can see someone watching it and enjoying it without knowing anything about the subject matter.
If were to make a satirical post in this thread about a fictional family called… oh, lets say Stickerthaler watching and commenting on episode “Easy Come, Easy Go” (the ‘odd taste’ refers to semen) would I get banned?
Count me as one of your supporters RE child-rearing, Roger Thornhill. I think parents make a mistake trying to shield their offspring from the real world. Parents may not realize just how much children get exposed to “bad” things already, thru peers and the Internet, and it’s much better that your relationship with your daughter allows you to share experiences like this with her and provide your advice at the same time.
I fail to see the harm in such actions. If she is too young to appreciate what she is seeing, it will do no harm; if she understands, so much the better. It’s education, and when the hormones kick in at puberty, she will be better prepared for her own future experiences. I wish I had this kind of education available at that age – comparatively, I was horribly deprived even though I grew up in a family considered “enlightened” at the time.
Think of how many violent things are made available to children thru the ratings system and contrast that to the censorship of sex-related material. Which is going to hurt a child more, exposure to violence or exposure to love?
I am reminded of a Lenny Bruce routine where he takes his young son or daughter to a movie, thinking it is a shoot-em-up, kill-em-all, action flick. Instead, it turns out to be a sexy love story. Some of the dialogue he reports (I am heavily, heavily paraphrasing this from my faulty memory):
“Here we go, son, he’s picking up pillow! Maybe he’ll smother her with it and she’ll writhe and die! Darn, he’s putting it under her ass! I’m sorry, son, I didn’t know it would be this kind of a movie – you shouldn’t be looking at this, they’re making love. This is terrible; it’s the wrong kind of stuff for a kid. Maybe he’ll pull out a pistol and shoot her, if we’re lucky!”
From Britney Spears, of course. The characters on SATC are downright nunnish in comparison.
I’m sure you know how to raise your kid. Every child is different.
I watched a David Lynch movie at a fairly young age with my dad, and I didn’t really enjoy it, but it didn’t fuck me up or anything.
At about 7 or 8 Melrose Place was my family’s thing. We watched it every week. Mom did take the liberty of covering up my eyes once or twice, but I was a hell of a lot more interested in the catfighting and drama than the sex.
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“The old Russian”?! It’s a sad sad day when the great Mikhail Baryshnikov is reduced to “the old Russian”.
I suppose after the failed relationships with the laconic businessman, the laid-back DIY guy and the insecure writer, the Executive Prodcuer was a bit stuck for her next failed romance. Wheeling out the comatose Commie must have seemed like a good idea at the time.