My little sister just wrapped on her first “mainstage” theater show (that is, a show with primarily adults and few or no children, as opposed to a youth production). She was telling me all about how being the youngest in the cast (she’s 12) was hard, but she liked the environment more.
“When we get too loud in the greenroom during a [mainstage] show, somebody just says ‘hey guys remember to keep it down.’ During a kids’ show sometimes we are only allowed to color and not talk or even whisper, and the parents who help backstage will yell at us if we talk. Also here [at a mainstage show] if I forget my prop or costume or something I can just turn around and go back and nobody says anything. Same for going to the bathroom. In a kids’ show we aren’t allowed to be out of our spots at all, or somebody has to escort us. They [the “helping” parents] don’t like to escort us, so we sometimes get yelled at for that too.” She shared several anecdotes of specific times these things had happened.
I hate the massive amount of control exerted over children and young adults, and the assumption that children are constantly deviant or “up to something.” Sure, four and five year olds need a lot of watching, but this girl is twelve and telling me she feels better and happier in this space designed for adults than she does in a space designed for her and her peers.
Children’s activities should be designed for the enjoyment of kids AND start teaching them about the responsibilities they’ll receive and standards they’ll be held to as they get older. Instead, most of these activities are for the convenience of the parents who pay for them, and are totally geared at keeping kids “under control” when they are not under the immediate supervision of parents/teachers. It’s evidence that kids are assigned very little “personhood,” and I really hate it.
Literally, if you wouldn’t yell at an adult about something, don’t yell at a child about it. If you wouldn’t say something to a peer, don’t say it to a kid.
Kids (who are old enough to comprehend and follow directions) usually only need to hear "don’t forget to pick up that trash, dude,” or “hey, this made a bit of a mess. Could you try and keep it tidy next time?” or “woah, remember that we’re supposed to be keeping it quiet,” and that’s it. No yelling, no lectures. If one kid is routinely having issues with the same thing over and over again, or a child is doing something genuinely dangerous (hint: an adult not liking it does not mean it’s dangerous) then that child should be spoken to privately and calmly to resolve the issue. People really love to lose all self-control around kids and I hate it so much.
In case it wasn’t clear, children (who are by nature a little more impulsive and less self-aware than adults) are often being held to HIGHER standards of behavior than adults, and receiving GREATER punishments for small infractions than adults. That’s wrong.
Frollo and Mother Gothel convince Quasimodo and Rapunzel that their lives are dependent on them. The two villains claim the outside world is a terrible place even though they know this is not true. They also constantly emotionally abuse their victims by implying their worthlessness and destroying their self-esteems. Quasimodo and Rapunzel sympathize with their captors and even believe their captors are protecting them and treating them with kindness. However, both captors are merely using and manipulating their victims for their own selfish purposes.
Belle does not sympathize with the Beast when she is treated poorly. She becomes angry and leaves the castle, only returning by her own wish so that the Beast (who saves her) does not freeze to death. She does not respond nicely towards the Beast until he treats her with respect. In this situation, Belle has control and is not manipulated into feeling for the Beast, nor does the Beast treat her disrespectfully after the first night. While the Beast does have an underlying motive as to keeping Belle in his castle, he abandons this idea and sets her free to make her happy. If anything, this story is a case of Lima Syndrome where the captor starts to sympathize with the victim.
Check out this post which refocuses the purpose of Beauty and the Beast from merely (and wrongly) being about Stockholm Syndrome to it’s original purpose.
FUCKING FINALLY
I don’t usually reblog stuff like this, but Beauty and the Beast is my favorite movie and I’d like to have this on my page!
this is actually a very good analysis. I take back all the times I’ve called Beauty and the Beast a ‘stockholm syndrome’ romance.
the renaissance faire is just comic con but outside and with jousting on horses instead of deadpool with a katana vs a brony with a lightsaber
@elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey I have seen a Brony and Deadpool fighting at a ren faire. It was historically accurate and Deadpool handed that guys ass to him.
i cannot believe this
Renaissance faires are comic-cons with a storyline and more beer.
renfaires are a source of deep chaos energy
one of my favorite times at a ren faire was when there was a troupe of full costume klingon warriors that stayed in character about how their time travel must have been misconfigured, as they were aiming for the late 20th century, rather than the renaissance.
I just had to explain what I was cackling at to my roommate. It automatically passes the Laugh Rule.
She found her reluctant fiance, Erstad, brooding out on the rainy moors.
“Is that a baby rabbit?” she asked, observing his huddled form.
“IT’S SIX BABY RABBITS AND YOU CAN’T TOUCH THEM,” replied Ernstad, contriving to look twice his usual size and at least three times his usual fierceness.
“Whoah okay damn,” she said, and backed away.
i’d read the gothic romance novel of ernstad and his baby rabbits like right now
This means that Batman, obsessive hoarder of orphans, is the only dark mysterious character that can be accurately described as “brooding”.
