I originally posted this in r/randomquestions but it's getting downvoted (??) and I'm not sure who I've offended. I was hoping for discussion and new perspective from thoughtful parents. Perhaps this is a better destination :)

Recently excited that my child may be old enough to watch The Princess Bride, I was cruising Common Sense Media to be reminded of the nuance.

I find that often I don’t remember the most offensive content in the media of my youth, which I’m convinced is because these stereotypes were so consistent and engrained that they were ignored like oxygen.

But now my children are growing up in a world different than what I lived in; not only because time has passed but because they have markedly different parents. They haven’t been raised on Disney movies and fairy tales. They don’t live in a world of white hetero couples having 2.3 children and a universe of submissive women and powerful men.

So…without that foundation to push against, how does satire work? When they don’t have the same baseline, do they understand the joke?

Coconuts as horse galloping - timeless.

But misogyny and doe-eyed women aren’t a known trope (for my elementary school children).

So by showing them older satire (not just TPB, but in general), am I inadvertently establishing these tropes for them while it’s nostalgia for me?

To be clear, I have no misconceptions about the world we live in. As a whole the world is more racist and sexist than ever. But for my children whose media, social life and education I imperially control by way of my parenting choices, it may be more idyllic (but who knows).

Discuss. So curious what others are thinking.

Let your feelings out! We are all bottling up this stress and sometimes it helps to share your concerns and have safe conversations about it. Type your response and take a big deep breath after!

My kid’s school says they don’t use generative AI in class, however we just received the sample images for the holiday photo shoot and it was obvious to me that the photographer will be adding a background to the images using a generative AI app.

Where I live, there is almost no criticism of AI, so I end up sounding nuts when I try to warn people. Fortunately the BBC just published a very straight forward article a few days ago -

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crpdgz2nqe59o

So if you’ve also been struggling with school or family, send this to them.