Quote:So you've probably heard of the criticism that Sesame Street, while intended to help children learn to read, actually damaged their ability. The producer's plan was to make it fun to learn reading by making the letters dance and sing and tell jokes. But of course actual reading requires a kind of sustained attention to letters that DON'T dance or sing, so kids raised on Sesame Street found it too boring to read a page of text.
The evidence of that is scant at best and contracted directly at worst by evidence
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...7313000026
https://www.vox.com/2015/6/12/8771937/se...es-smarter
Quote:Then there are the criticisms that superhero movies have a fascist message hidden behind the charm of the hero's personalities. (Only the ubermensch can save us.) Or of course the constant message in US media that the hero is the person who makes the most effective use of violence. This teaches us somethingThat's not remotely the message of superhero movies at all you just don't get the genre
Nowhere does the movie remotely teach us that only the powerful can save us. In fact, it teaches the opposite throughout the whole MCU and DC and most definitely the comics we that superheroes are flawed and foilable beings who have many of the weaknesses we have. What makes them heroes is not them having powers or just being better than us. What makes them heroes is what makes them like us. Steve Rogers was a good person before the super-solider serum. Tony Stark was an amoral womanizing prick till he got a taste of humility and sought to redeem himself. As for your nonesense about violence, no heroes are heroes because restrain on using violence. There are countless instances where they could have just killed the villain and made things easier or committed, regardless of cost. They didn't though, and they often give the villain more than enough chances to give up, so this statement is simply false.
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“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM