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Sunday, December 26, 2004
Looks that Kill
Hey folks, hope you had a good Christmas and/or Chanukah (my family did both holidays at once for a year. It didn't go well). Did you get good stuff? I got cash to spend, and I've already spent it all. Lots of the stuff was comics, I hope to write about them here.
I'm here to write about something else, something I noticed looking around the comic store this day on my post-Xmas spree. I noticed how the Motley Crue box set had a "13 & up" label on it (I was going to get it but I'm holding out for the Pam and Tommy Sex Tape box set). Now a lot of action figures have ratings like that not just for small parts that could be swallowed, something that shouldn't be a problem for a child past infancy, but for content.
The thing is, what's the point? Once you've seen an action figure you've seen it, there's really nothing more to it. Anything that's meant to be hidden from a child is exposed in the split-second that the child's eyes are cast upon the toy. The fact that the figure is packaged with a box or a card with more imagery that can be seen as "age inappropriate" just makes those content ratings seem more useless.
I suppose the argument could be made that a child just seeing the toy and not playing with it will be less "endangered" or whatever the screaming mass of censorship would have you believe. I know what it is like to be a child. With just a quick glimpse at something Mommy and Daddy don't want you to see and the images extrapolate in a kid's head. These content ratings are simple appeasement that toy companies make for the Senator Liebermans in the world. I feel that with just a little common sense applied (and I only have a little) we find how bizarre they are. The ratings and the censors like Lieberman.
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