In a lot of children's shows like Peppa Pig the fathers are consistently portrayed as bumbling idiots and the mothers as awesome heroines saving the day and it sends a very wrong message to little kids

Rethgil · 2019-03-07T22:41:52+00:00

I dont think most people on this sub get the extreme importance of things like this. I've been trying to draw attention to it for years, as someone with interest and qualifications in Psychology.

Early years portrayal of men as stupid/bad/losers is PROVEN to have a strong impact on growing kids who internalise such ideas which then shapes whether they reject or agree with future portrayals of men they come across.

Kids are bombarded with negative views of men-from adverts on the streets showing women as victims of domestic abuse at the hands of men mostly, to adverts showing women as heroes and men as stupid, to films and books showing the same, and glimpses of news where, again, men are portrayed endlessly as rapists, murderers, violent, repressing evildoers hurting women.

Meanwhile, many kids also grow up with bitter manhating mothers who endlessly bad mouth men without considering that their kid can hear them doing it.

Bottom line image kids get now? MEN. ARE. DUMB. WORTHLESS. AND. DISPOSABLE.

A VITAL part of mens rights in future has got to be changing this as it basically amounts to brainwashing. No wonder so many girls are growing up to hate on men as feminists/growing up with mental disorders due to self loathing as boys.

perplexedm · 2019-03-07T18:47:07+00:00

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Like in virtually every show aimed towards little kids, the girls are heroic, the boys foolish. The girls save the day. I don't mind that the girls save the day, every once in a while, but for them to always do it and the male characters to always lag behind is a pity. Like there's Barbie movies too in which Barbie saves the day and is portrayed as competent and heroic, whereas Ken is a borderline idiot who kisses the ground she walks on and always gets in trouble. A lot of kids shows are like this. The father figures are weak, the mother figures all-knowing.

In Peppa Pig, specifically, the father of Peppa is an engineer. He has blue prints lying around the house and everything, has an office, works hard, is a pillar of the community, and yet he's constantly made fun of and used as the butt of jokes because he's a bit fat. It's kinda lame and gives a terrible example. Meanwhile "Mommy Pig" is awesome and pretty much flawless. The whole thing is pretty insidious.

From an early age it sends a message of girls being empowered, but how about the little boys? Like sure there's still superhero movies but those are aimed at a little older audience, plus all those superheroes are usually genetically mutated in some way and unrealistically handsome, so few kids would identify with them.

perplexedm · 2019-03-07T23:52:58+00:00

Oh PLEASE.

This indoctrination has been going on for generations.

AtticusReznor · 2019-03-07T22:28:57+00:00

Correction: in every tv show fathers are portrayed as bumbling idiots and the mothers as awesome heroines saving the day.

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