Thursday, March 29, 2012

Hegemony, or who gets to determine what is 'appropriate' viewing for children

http://www.salon.com/2012/03/28/why_the_mpaa_doesnt_want_your_kid_to_see_bully/

"While the MPAA board pretends to be a source of neutral and non-ideological advice to parents, it all too often reveals itself to be a velvet-glove censorship agency, seemingly devoted to reactionary and defensive cultural standards. In the “Bully” case, the board has ended up doing what it usually does: favoring the strong against the weak, further marginalizing the marginalized, and enforcing a version of “family values” that has all sorts of unspoken stereotypes about gender and sexuality and race and other things baked into it"

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