Age Appropriate Content

[InbetweenDreams]

My rule of thumb with kids is, when they’re old enough to ask the question, they’re old enough for the answer.

Makes you wonder why adults (of a certain variety) react negatively when it comes to things like this video or more recently the Pride Parade song on Blues Clues. While I think a lot of it is rooted in ignorance and homophobia/transphobia I think there's something else at play. It does seem like an overplayed hand, "what about the kids." I think it is more that some parents don't want to answer the questions their kid asks them. I guess that's how we wound up with shit like the Stork and the Tooth fairy. At least with the tooth fairy I got money.

I guess what I'm wonder is IS there any validity to the "what about the kids" card and should parents do the talking to instead of the programming...does it even matter? Frankly, I remember watching shit like Up In Smoke, Terminator and Porky's at a pretty young age. Ah that's right, all of it is taboo to these people.