my son is watching Futurama

am I in for trouble later?

Now I have to explain Amazonia and why no one should be a sociopath like Bender ( and the rest of them) :)

Ooops, poor planning on my part. But it probably isn't any worse than those 60's cartoons I watched...

OMG!!!!!!!

That one is NOT for children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's hilarious, but NOT for children!

:wow:

Which 60s cartoons are you referring to? ;-)

I was looking askance at it... I think a lot of it went over his head. Okay, we will need to do the post-mortem and see what he got and missed.

You see son, when giant amazon woman hasn't had snu-snu in a long time, she has to have lots of snu-snu right now!

Love when Kif uses his lizard skills to get away in that episode. :)

Wait 10 years and show it to him again. His opinion of the story might change. :evilgrin:

Futurama is sort of on the borderline.... guess I need to pre-watch a few more of them :)

Most of them are comparatively harmless and off-the-wall. AWitM is the only one I recall (apart from "Love Labours..." (season 1, episode 4)) that spends a ton of time with sexual situations/innuendo.

I have never understood why people try to keep sex as such a big secret from children.

What's the concern?

the child will grow up to be a nympho or a pervert?

that the child will tell the other kids about sex and thereby cause trouble in school?

the child will begin having sex earlier than she otherwise would?

There is some validity in the last 2 of these possible concerns, but I think its way overdone by most parents.

Clarification: I am talking here about parents in society at large here and *not* specifically trying to criticize anybody who is on this thread. I am not trying tell anybody how to raise their children either -- it should go without saying, but any parents out there should feel completely free ignore these opinions.

And hopefully nobody will think you're accusatory (I'm not.)

It is a taboo, this sexuality stuff, in society... For reasons I can't say right now, it's best to keep kids (under 15 I suppose) away from sex...

Indeed, many children use sexual words inappropriately. Such as using the word "fag" to describe heterosexuals. (of course, if we teach 'em what's what, will they then use the words accurately?)