In
“Violent Media is Good for Kids”, Gerard Jones argues that violent media gives
benefit for mentality development of the children. This benefit has been
implemented to his son who transformed bloodthirsty dinosaur into an
encouragement to enter preschool; a Power Ranger into self power by joining
social competition in Kindergarten. He also has helped Emily, a little girl who
loves exploring violent action, to have more self-controlled and socially
competent by giving her a chance to draw comics to express her emotional
condition. Not only that, his mom who firstly against The Incredible Hulk and
Marvel Comics turned to believe that those entertainments demonstrate pacifism
and tolerance. Those experiences makes him strongly believes that violent entertainment
in which people might think it is the trashiest pop culture has its own
developmental function. Violent entertainment will help children express their
feelings and fantasies so that they will not grow up too passive, distrustful,
and easily manipulated. When parent act to protect their children too much to
watch violent media, it means they are not against violence but against power
and selfhood. Therefore, parent has
to not hardly protect their children to be familiar with violent media.
*I wrote this summary for accomplishing EAP 3 assignment
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