Seduction of the Innocent (2 points)

Censorship of new fads has unfortunately plagued every new medium that kids are stereotyped to use. Just like how video games or adult cartoons get blamed for the issues with children, comics got the same treatment. Since the “adults” are just too lazy or hard fast in their views to actually read a mature comic they think that the comic and not their bad parenting is the reason why their kid can turn bad. The comics used by Dr. Frederic Wethem to show the need of banning adult topics within a medium had little to no damaging ideals. It's confusing to me as to why an adult can look at a movie or a medium they consume but the moment they see some drawings on a paper talking about the same topic they freak out? The same arguments made by Dr. Frederic Wethem are just about the same argument as to why video games are promoting violence. I truly don't understand why people want to shave blame onto things that clearly aren't affecting a child. People really forget how they were as a child. I always said to myself that I hope I'll never be like the blind idiots that actually believed in how “horrible” or “child damaging” any new medium that comes out. Even within an editorial note within one of the comics they talk about how stupid the debate that “do-gooders” are pushing a false narritive. I don't understand how this same narrative gets pushed out again and again. The stories that were critiqued were really well written. They had interesting topics that happened in real life with a hint of fantasy to make it interesting. They are normal stories with very little “violence” to speak off. The act of violence would be employed but never drawn out to completion. To blame comics for a parents' incopences with their parenting seems to me like an easy copout to just having to deal with the fact that you're a shitty parent.

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