Sunday, January 28, 2001

Violence Finds a Niche in Children's Cartoons
A pug-nosed thug kicks in an elderly
storekeeper's face. Then he punches a
young heroine in the eye and cracks her in
the small of the back with a heavy bar stool. Her
limp frame collapses to the ground as he stands over
her with his gun drawn and pointed at her head.

Two young boys are in a fistfight on a moving
boxcar. A friend tries to intervene. But an older and
very respected boy advises: let the fight continue.
Sometimes, he says, friends need to bare fists in
order to strengthen the bonds of friendship. They
resume.

A little girl karate-kicks another little girl so hard
that she flies through the air. Her head smashes into
a cement post. She is knocked cold.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/28/business/28TOON.html?pagewanted=all

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