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Dirty Dozen- The Most Dangerous Toys of 2001
An anonymous reader pointed us to The Dirty Dozen
which lists the most dangerous toys for children. #1 on the list is Metal Gear Solid 2 (which I finished this weekend and highly recommend)
Also making the cut are Gundam and Dragonball Zaction figures (nothing scarier then Bulma on a bad hair day I guess), Super Street Fighter II and Doom. Of course the specific version of doom they classify as one of the most dangerous toys of 2001 is the Game Boy Advanced port, and I gotta agree with them on the GBA thing, those things are dangerous. Play for more then 30 minutes, and you go blind.
Anyways I still remember an SNL skit of a toy manufacturer with "Bag `O Broken Glass" and "Play Doctor Medical Waste Goop" .... now those were some toys, but video games that promote violence. How about you get mom and dad to quit yellin at each other through the stress of X-Mas? Erm wait, it's toys that make people corrupt not unbearable living enviroments.
But yeah ... I will be giving out rocks for this years holliday season ... maybe I'll put a slashdot on um so I can sell ... my pet slashdot rock.(C) :-)
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
What rights are involved with me buying or not buying a toy? The Slashdot staff seem to think everything is a right.
Please explain this one to me.
are you suggesting that the gun wasn't bought/stolen from a legal owner somewhere along the line? it's having guns in circulation among the general public AT ALL that's the problem - only criminals WANT to use those guns in a criminal way. Maybe there are just too many guns in circulation in the US to EVER get the shit back into the horse, but you don't even seem to be trying.
That was classic intercourse!
I agree. This isn't even a decent consumer warning, this is a bunch of moralistic claptrap. What gets me is it's all about repressing the violent urges of young males. There isn't one mention on this list about the potentially huge dangers in terms of self-destructive self image issues that toys like Barbie dolls present to girls.
And for the record I don't believe playing with action figures, war toys, or Barbies have a causal relation to any mental/emotional/social state later in life. If anything, they provide no models for behavior, but allow children to role-play... a key method children use to explore the range of human experience and emotion.
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my kid really likes "alice"... just learned to run around using the 'w' key (used to hop, but alice would die quick, shinjita) and slash lance-thrusting knaves. he's only two.
should i wallow in shame? what would jesus think? what does it all mean?
chodai datte, namida--more chocolate, now!