Ask any child their favourite film, and there is quite a high chance they will name a Disney movie, like 'Beauty and the Beast' or 'Aladdin'.
However, experts believe that these films are giving them the wrong idea about what a healthy relationship looks like.
You mean, it's not a good idea to fall in love with a thief? Or take up bestiality?
Researchers at the University of Exeter surveyed young people and found they had the desire to learn skills to help them develop relationships at school.
What..? Really?
Study author Simon Benham-Clarke said: 'Those we surveyed highlighted the importance of teaching skills such as relating, communication, empathy, respect, conflict resolution and repair and ending relationships kindly and safely.
'Our research shows schools need improved support to run relationships education, including specialist expertise and resources, and guidance on signposting pupils to external sources of help.
'Positive relationship behaviours should be modelled, integrated and built on throughout curriculums nationally and reflected in a school's ethos.'
Where on earth are schools to find the time for all this? What's this nonsence based on?
...the researchers conducted focus groups with 24 young people aged between 14 and 18.
*sighs*
One female participant said: 'I think it actually does create this toxic image to some degree… it's very much the female is feeble, and she must be saved by the male, and it kind of creates a toxic masculinity.'
Another added: 'It's embedded into our heads that it's always Prince Charming and it's always the prince and the princess … you don't understand it until you actually get to it, and that's when you realise that it's not like Disney movies or anything.'
Well, love, that's life for you. Frankly, I understood that well before the age of 14...
On noes. How many innocent minds have been led to believe that you can jump off a very high cliff, have a ten ton (Imperial) weight drop on you, be hit by a speeding train emerging from a tunnel drawn on a cliff face, etc. etc. and survive by watching Wile E. Coyote?
ReplyDeleteThere are many others equally reckless examples.
What plonkers.
Since the target audience of Disney animated films is, presumably, well below the age of the participants, what we have is essentially a bunch of teenagers pronouncing not on their own past experience but on what they think should happen for the good of their juniors, hereby proving themselves to be true children of the modern age.
ReplyDelete“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” C S Lewis
Never has that quote resonated as much as today...
DeleteHow on earth has the human race managed to expand from a very few hominids to over 7 billion, without relationship education ?
ReplyDeleteQuite! 😁
DeleteTo take the world population from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to today's seven billion would not have been possible without the synthesis of ammonia by Fritz Haber and its commercialization by Carl Bosch and BASF. - "the greater the density of a population the easier it is to control..." nb - synthetic chemical fertilizers deplete soil life and subsequently - ours too -
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