Thoughts on violence/culture
qtegirl
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This weekend I went to the Houston Astros/Milwaukee Brewers baseball games. During the inning changes, they always play "stuff" on the jumbotron: fanviews, short contents, spoofs, etc. One of the things they show is a caricature of three Astros players racing in Humvees. During the race, the players are mean to each other, they try to push one another off the road, and at one point, one of the players takes out what looks like a bazooka or granade launcher and fires baseballs at the other racer to win. Now, why do they do this?
A baseball game gets advertised as a family experience. There are plenty of kids watching this. What is this caricature saying?
1. why do they have to race Humvees, some of the most gas-guzzling cars on the road? They could race in Priuses or Insights, couldn't they?
2. what's with all the road rage images, what are we telling the kids? And I'm serious when I say that the drivers look very mean.
3. To take out a weapon and shoot the other racers, really?
Now, most of the time I'm not a sensitive person. But I don't find this to be "good family fun". They could take this opportunities where you have 40,000 plus fans gathered and plenty of children to send positive messages. Instead, they choose to show some of the most negative images that I've ever seen, packaged for consumption of children.
A baseball game gets advertised as a family experience. There are plenty of kids watching this. What is this caricature saying?
1. why do they have to race Humvees, some of the most gas-guzzling cars on the road? They could race in Priuses or Insights, couldn't they?
2. what's with all the road rage images, what are we telling the kids? And I'm serious when I say that the drivers look very mean.
3. To take out a weapon and shoot the other racers, really?
Now, most of the time I'm not a sensitive person. But I don't find this to be "good family fun". They could take this opportunities where you have 40,000 plus fans gathered and plenty of children to send positive messages. Instead, they choose to show some of the most negative images that I've ever seen, packaged for consumption of children.
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You know what you could do. File a complaint with the stadium. Chances are, more people have done the same, and if so, the video may have to be removed. You don't know until you try!
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