Myths that Bind Us (quotes)

this is not the first time i encounter this project, so i was pretty much aware of what was going in the text, and how cartons affect children.

before anything there is this website i found that also talks about (click on->) how cartons affect children, check it out.

 

"according to the novels I readmy thick ankles doomed me to be cast as rhe peasant woman reaping hay while the heroine swept by with her handsome heroic man in hot pursuit."

to me this is how cartoons portray that skinny girls are the only beautiful girls. i dont remember seeing a cartoon with a thick princess. in fact i do remember watching a disney movie where a little girl was cursed when she was little to be ugly until a man loves her for who she is. during the "ugly" curse, she was thick, with a big nose and when the curse was lifted she was "beautiful", she was skinny with a small nose. so that tells kids, being thick or having a big nose is something to be ashamed about

 

"Children's cartoons, movies, and literature are perhaps the most Influentia] genre "read." Young people, unprotected by any intellectual armor, hear or watch these stories again and again. often from the warmth of their mother's or father's lap"

 

kids watch this cartoons without knowing realisticly about the real world. they have no foundational education, they have no logic or anything. so when they watch these cartoons and receive these messages, that becomes their blueprint to any future education or knowledge on these topics expressed in the cartoons.

 

 

"The "secret education," as Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman dubs it, delivered by children's books and movies, instructs young people to accept the world as it is portrayed in these social blueprints"

 

to me this is saying that cartoons teach kids what is acceptable for males to do and females to do. females must be girly and boys have to be tough and pretty violent. boys cant show weakness and girls are not suppose to be tough.

 

here is a video also supporting that arguement