Reading Pop Culture Chpater 7 Continued

Violent Media is Good for Kids: 
Many of the movies that recently have come out are about the superheroes. In those movies there have been many violent fighting scenes. This is ironic because people are showing the violence on screen and telling the kids to not be violent. This is what I believed. Once reading the beginning of this story I changed my point of view. The author as talking about how his son's friends would climb a tree but his son didn't want to because he didn't want to get injured. Since the son liked these stories he read the story of Tarzan then the son climbed the tree. The author is stating that the kids "need violent entertainment in order to explore these incapable feelings that they've been taught to deny" (Ousborne, page 444). Adults tell kids that violence is bad so the kids have those feeling that are stuck because they can not be violent. These violent media lets them release those feelings and act as those characters. Violent media can be harmful but it can also help kids.

Secret Skin: An essay in Unitard Theory: 
Reading comic book have helped kids "escape" from where they are.The character in the book helps kids feel more powerful. For example, when they are reading the books they feel like they are in the story and with the costume, they feel like they are the superhero. My little sisters love the Disney princesses. When they read the book they imagine that they are in the book. Once they get the dress of the princess they start to pretend that the story is real they pretend to be the princess. This is something that mostly all kids do. They pretend that they are their favorite character.