Two years without a TV, the girls' mom decided to introduce them to cartoons on YouTube. They're quite devoted now to both Tom & Jerry and The Family Guy. Normally I don't mind; a little surreal anthropomorphism on the former hand and non-PC, postironic, subversive humor on the latter, are good things. Today, though, they hyperlinked their way to this winner.
I wasnt' sure what to do. I resisted the urge to walk over and change it to something else, because I didn't want to signify that there was anything special about it. We're talking about kids who we've managed to raises with as close to zero distinction vis-a-vis "race" as it is possible to come. The 5-year-old doesn't know "black" and "white" signify anything but basic colors (she did once, at 4, refer to "people with brown faces and all-brown bodies," but that's the closest she's come).
So in the end I just let it play. She asked the usual questions, "Why is he chasin?" etc. And then it ended, and she did not ask to see it again. So I guess that;'s over.
Hopefully, she'll never quite understand why Daddy cringed.
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