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kraitCriminal Minds is supposed to be appropriate for ages fourteen and up!?
Maybe I'm overreacting -- and I definitely feel like a curmudgeon -- but given what I've been looking at in the last few episodes -- a murdered and sexually abused six-year-old, photos of a woman who's been tortured to death, a man's arm that was dissected down to the bone, children being held hostage -- I really would not want fourteen-year-olds watching this. o.O
This sort of disturbingly emphasises my prior suspicions that most of the FF.Net authors writing CM fic are between the ages of 12 and 14. It's somewhat alarming that the show says it's okay for fourteen-year-olds; it's a much more disconcerting feeling I get when I realise that they appear to be a significant segment of the audience.
Maybe I'm overreacting -- and I definitely feel like a curmudgeon -- but given what I've been looking at in the last few episodes -- a murdered and sexually abused six-year-old, photos of a woman who's been tortured to death, a man's arm that was dissected down to the bone, children being held hostage -- I really would not want fourteen-year-olds watching this. o.O
This sort of disturbingly emphasises my prior suspicions that most of the FF.Net authors writing CM fic are between the ages of 12 and 14. It's somewhat alarming that the show says it's okay for fourteen-year-olds; it's a much more disconcerting feeling I get when I realise that they appear to be a significant segment of the audience.
I am embracing curmudgeonism.
Date: 2011-10-25 07:39 am (UTC)This is pretty much exactly how I feel. *grimace* When I was 14, or probably even younger, I was at least somewhat aware of the reality of rape, spouse abuse, etc., and hopefully it kept me from doing things that were wildly unsafe, and maybe laid the foundations for social justice/feminism that I grew into...
Fantasy novels are probably not appropriate for twelve-year-olds, at least not the ones I was reading. :D But as you say -- at least it wasn't being shown in graphic colour detail, with (one the things that occasionally makes me twitchy, with CM) lingering camera scenes of the usually-female victims' agony and emotional responses. The novels were pretty much all about how This Stuff Is Not Good, which... is occasionally not the vibe I get from CM, precisely. (Good thing about fantasy novels: often ahead of their time in terms of social justice and tolerance!)