I feel evil.

[askerian]

I think I've stained an innocent young mind FOREVAR today.

>so like i was wondering why do you write nasty
>stories!! its kind of funny though i laugh at them!!

... okay, she doesn't sound traumatized. XD But if she's over 12, I'll be very very surprised. haha. god.

I actually want her to write back, I think, just so I can explain the difference between nasty and private and why sexual doesn't equal bad but does equal keep it to yourself anyway.

I also want her parents/older brother/responsible person to read my mail and block a few sites from her. =__=; It's not so hard to get a net-nanny program, damn it.



... I wanna write a nasty story now...

Comments

[rayemars.livejournal.com]

*nod* I agree that there's stuff out there that kids shouldn't have to run across (though I also kind of think that, if they're young enough, they won't really understand it enough to be affected), but I think one of the people above worked out why I don't like those things--if parents are going to censor stuff from their kids, they should do it themselves. Password protect the computer with some difficult word like catamaran or rubicon, and a young child probably won't be able get on there. I'm fine with parents choosing what they want their own children to see, because then they're forced to argue and explain things; but net-nannies strike me not only as censorship but as lazy censorship.

I don't like to demand parents spend total attention on their kids, since life today almost requires both parents to work in order to keep a living, but I don't think it's that hard to do small things like password a computer and not present television as a preferable source of entertainment to books or imagination. Doing that would spare a lot of the need for censorship.

*grin* Thank you!

[stripedpetunia.livejournal.com]

I think you somewhat underestimate what kids are capable of understanding and therefore being affected by. If they're old enough to be able to use the computer and read the things online, they're certainly old enough to understand things like pain and abuse (some unfortunately on a first-hand basis...), and these things can stick with a person for a long time, whether they even realize it or not. I have some potent memories of violent movies I saw as a young kid (my parents kinda failed at censoring that kinda stuff from me) and yet little memory of a lot of positive things that had to have happened at the same time.

[rayemars.livejournal.com]

That could be--I'm only going off of personal experience, and I've had a good life, so the things I came across as a kid may have been more abstract and therefore more forgettable to me. And I'm sure visual media tends to leave a bigger and longer mark than written stuff, since it's that much easier to assimilate. (I loved and still love horror movies and books, but I'll admit I still get a gut-reaction freakout in dark, isolated houses.)

If I'm underestimating it, then that means my future kids will probably come across these things at a younger age that other people's will. I don't advocate denying anyone the right to decide what kind of material is age appropriate to their children, I just don't think that a blanket censorship should be applied by machines or that it should be dictated to a general group.

[stripedpetunia.livejournal.com]

I have to say that I am in total agreement with you on that final point. It's like the ongoing video game-related drama these days, and well, all of its precursor entertainment media-related dramas. Parental accountability is both crucial, and unfortunately, an imaginary ideal. :D