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Wait! Kids are watching Magic Mike?!
When we paid for movie tickets to watch Magic Mike, I knew I was going to be entertained with hot naked bodies of men twerking and grinding. Channing Tatum can moonwalk all over my relationship and it’ll be fine.
That body, those eyes, the banging abs, and his smooth moves…
Lord have mercy!
I was cheering and screaming with raw delight when the movie
made its first thrust. Channing is grinding on the wall of his workshop. Body made
of perfection, hitting hard on solid ground. Ah!
The movie climaxed like a pro. Dollar bills everywhere,
screaming women, crying women, excited women, endless teasing… male stripping
knocking grown women outta their senses.
They are making love without taking their clothes off. The excitement
will kill you.
This obviously is a movie made to amuse adults.
It is bubble-gum porn; and it is a lazy way for adults to
jerk off. Popcorn and a bottle of soda kinda night.
But there was a child in the hall, barely ten! Indians, I
presume.
Magic Mike ended by 11.15pm and that child, with his parents, sat through the ordeal like it was acceptable behaviour to expose a son to sex and decadence!
I cringed, I worried, I held my breath.
One time, when a teenager brought his younger brother- a
child not a day older than eight- to watch a sexually explicit movie, I stomped
my way to the movie cashier and complained bitterly. These companies are only
interested in selling tickets!
Ok, so maybe capitalism has no conscience, what about
Parents? Where is our common sense when minors are left to watch soft porn?
Magic Mike is light depravity, something a curious child would
like to try out. And when you imagine that every child has a healthy sense of curiosity,
you’d understand the damage this might cause.
A smart kid is going to practice what he is exposed to- he
might have his first rehearsal with a younger sister maybe, or his six year old
neighbour, or his best friend. Those lecherous scenes will not leave very soon.
He would nurture them, toss the idea around in his head, romanticize it for
every spare minute life gives, and finally make his own performance.
He will be in his rights as an inquisitive child to do so.
This is how we leave children traumatised. This is how we bring
up sexually derelict individuals from crass negligence.
Blame the parents.
A child should not be made to sit through a movie like Magic
Mike. This isn’t rocket science. If you can’t make these simple judgments and
protect your children from harm, don’t have them yet.
Spot on! If we can't control what they watch in our presence, then imagine how far they'll go in their absence. I remember watching a movie with my siblings when I was about 4 years old and this lady traced ketchup on a man's abs, and the next minute, I'm prouring honey on my brothers chest and licking it off. My dad caught us of course, He threw the tv in his wardrobe for months; Not before a thoroughly thrashing our behinds. Bad parents everywhere! Where do we draw the line?
ReplyDeleteI don't even ono where to start with my level of disgust for parents who don't have the common sense or power of discernment to do the right thing. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteThe thing with common sense is that it's not common.
ReplyDeleteOh no! Too many shades of wrong!
ReplyDeleteOh no! Too many shades of wrong!
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