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by dcow 330 days ago
Graphic violence generally is considered adult content. Let’s not pretend slapstick comedy is the same as graphic violence. Furthermore, you/kids definitely see cartoons where one character is enamored with another (heart eyes jumping out of sockets) and pursues that character for the entirety of the episode.
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jimmydddd 330 days ago
Let's take Star Wars. Not "graphic," but a lot of killing going on. Some would argue that making the killing less "graphic" actually desensitizes children to the violence.
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danbruc 330 days ago
I am not even talking about really graphic violence, just your run of the mill crime story, shooting your husband to get the life insurance.
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andrewinardeer 330 days ago
Violence is normalised due to gun culture in America. Hollywood plays a part in this too. School shootings which is basically a daily event and a unique bug/feature of American life is a symptom of this.

Sex and procreation which is arguably the complete opposite to murder is ostrasized because of it.

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dcow 330 days ago
Well that’s not considered adult in any jurisdiction I know of. Maybe PG-13 at most.
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danbruc 330 days ago
I mean that is the point. What happens to the rating if the women does not shoot at her husband but opens her bathrobe and starts undressing him?
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dcow 330 days ago
Nothing. In the US that’d be PG-13 too.
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danbruc 330 days ago
Really? From a quick search I would have assumed it becomes R rated pretty quickly because of sexually oriented nudity.
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drewcoo 330 days ago
"Graphic violence" meant "violence in images" in my lifetime.

Because so many people "learn" words by guessing their meaning from context, it now means what Anthony Burgess called "ultraviolence" in A Clockwork Orange.

Cartoons have already had several re-thinking of what's appropriate as norms have changed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven

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haskellshill 328 days ago
> "Graphic violence" meant "violence in images" in my lifetime.

I doubt that

> graphic (adj.) "vivid, describing accurately ," 1660s (graphically "vividly" is from 1570s) [...] Meaning "pertaining to drawing" is from 1756.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/graphic

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