Whats wrong with parents? Eleven year old child in France gets GTA 5 and freaks out

[AndrewWK]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

AndrewWK said:

Pöease epxplain to me something I never really understood. What are the ratings for? I mean The Last of Us is rated M and a 11 year old kid wouldn´t know to appreciate whats great about that game. GTA is rated M and a 11 doesn´t even know what the game is about he is probably going to drive and do some mayhem just like we did in GTA 3, Vice City or San Andreas. And if a parent thinks this is appropriate for his kid then thats totally fine.

GTA3 wasnt that bad of a game but for its time it was very mature. GTA today would most likely push the envelope even further in violence, sexual language kids shouldn't hear, misogynist statements against women, nudity, drugs and more in  cocktail to the point where kids beome desensititzed to it. Desensitization is why you no longer can scare a child any longer and the horror genre has gone down the shitter. You don't need to be the best director of a scary movie but today the genre has no chance any longer. The demands of violence, sex and drugs has grown to a rate where people need to see movies like Saw or even Hostel to even cringe. To make them even squirm they need visceral stiumli. What scared our parents fails to scare us. We can watch people die in real life because of it.

Most parents and old school pioneers of the war against videogames have made ridiculous arguments against videogames. I just so happened to have studied disensitization and just like rated R films and Videogames, they desensitize children to the point where the industry has to search for answers in how to shock people further. Children force themselves to grow up and again react less to stimuli before their time, therefore forcing the industry to go on defense.

In conclusion, our parents are more emotionally sensitive than we are.

Yeah but don´t you thinks that the exposure to violence sexuality and inappropriate is so strong these and it is getting stronger by the day, that you cannot "protect" your own child from it anymore. Wheter we talk about games movie TV shows and even commercials. And instead trying to keep your child away from those you maybe try to explain to him the difference between fiction and reality. I mean that is what my parents did when I watched Superman the first time my father told no man can fly and I should not even try it, so I never did. 

And yes you are right, kids are disensitizated twowards films and games because of all the exposure. But they still can be shocked when something i real life happens. It doesn´t even need to be a horrible accident it just hast do be real blood, because they know the difference between reality and fiction even if you don´t explain it.