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Consumer Electronics Causing 'Death of Childhood'?
An anonymous reader writes "Top children's authors, including best-seller Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials), have written an open letter to the British Government claiming that consumer electronics have brought about the death of childhood. They say that children desperately need 'real play (as opposed to sedentary, screen-based entertainment), first-hand experience of the world they live in'. The letter writers also state that children have lost their imaginations because they are, 'pushed by market forces to act and dress like mini-adults and exposed via the electronic media to material which would have been considered unsuitable for children even in the very recent past.' The article asks, 'is modern life too fast for the supple human mind? Do children have a rev counter we're red-lining by exposing them to so much input?'" So what does Slashdot think? Are kids growing up too fast nowadays because of them new-fangled technologies?
Then they'd invent heavy makeup so they didn't look quite so much like the farm animals. People who think these women are attractive are obviously looking no deeper than the artificial skins of cloth and goo. The clothes are not the woman.
By the way, feeding just makes you fat. It's the work itself that makes you strong. Weight is not the same thing as muscle and after an atrophy event ( say a prolonged illness) you need exercise to put actual meat on your bones, not more food, which will only add flab.
Put the girls right to work pitching hay to the cattle and they'll beef up. Just try to remeber that the ones in the dresses are probably the girls.
KFG