In conclusion, I would like to know what everyone else thinks about the episode being banned in 2004. Do you think that young children would have watched this episode and took the differences in a good way? What do you think would happen if the show portrayed other families such as two fathers or single parent families or even foster care families? What do you think the outcomes would be?
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Safe Spaces- Argument
As I read through "Safe Spaces" written by Annemarie Vaccaro, Gerri August, and Megan Kennedy, I was actually kind of surprised that it was not another piece dealing with race. However, even though the topic transitions from race to sexual orientation, I still found similarities between this piece and the previous ones that we have been working on. These authors argue that the students who are LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender), are usually offended a lot in school whether it be by classmates or even teachers, who most of the time do not even realize that they are doing it. They argue that students who face one of these identities (LGBT), are more likely to be absent from school or when they are present in school, they will not engage in discussions. But it is not just the students. Most teachers try to avoid talking about these subjects and will re-word their whole lesson to get around them. It is really sad to see that this happens at all age groups, whether it be elementary school level or the college level. But I believe that if these identities are portrayed at a young age, they wouldn't seem so out of the ordinary later in life. The whole example of the "Postcards with Buster" TV show really got me going. I think that this episode was a great idea because it sends a message to young children saying that it was okay to have more than one mother. It sends a message that every family is different, but it's not wrong to not have one mom and one dad. Below I have posted a preview of the beginning of the episode that was banned in 2004. Since the title of this post is "argument", I will argue that if this episode was not banned I think the message would have got sent to many more young children and that maybe a lot of the discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders would not be as bad as it is today.
In conclusion, I would like to know what everyone else thinks about the episode being banned in 2004. Do you think that young children would have watched this episode and took the differences in a good way? What do you think would happen if the show portrayed other families such as two fathers or single parent families or even foster care families? What do you think the outcomes would be?
In conclusion, I would like to know what everyone else thinks about the episode being banned in 2004. Do you think that young children would have watched this episode and took the differences in a good way? What do you think would happen if the show portrayed other families such as two fathers or single parent families or even foster care families? What do you think the outcomes would be?
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Hi Alyssa, I thought of the same things about the t.v. show and as a child, I probably wouldn't have even given much thought about the families circumstances but I think it would have been educational to know that there are families like this out there when I was at an age that I'd be watching this. I don't think a child needs to be explicitly taught about different sexual orientations but just to be exposed to the idea wouldn't be a bad thing.
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