the love of a skunk and a cat

Well I went back to school this week, and realised that grade 11 really is more of a workload then I thought it would be. Meaning that with an hours worth of maths homework, and tonnes of other stuff, I have managed to find time to have a social life, work, and write a blog. Now during my social life, I was watching over the hedge, and I am assuming some people have seen it. Now in it, the skunk, Stella, is talking to the Persian cat whos name I can’t remember. She got pissed off at him and he says something like “no one has ever spoken to me like that! I like it…”. Now as we were watching this part of this movie, lets call the person Fred, who I was watching the movie with said “So basically it means it turns him on.’ It really got me thinking about how we seem to talk down to children. Although the thought of a cat-skunk creature crosses my mind as I think of this is probably not something to get into the generation of the future’s heads, we seem to sometimes take it a little to far.
There are sexual undertones in almost every kids movie. Its probably because the animators who create them find it hilarious to ad these little extras in for the parents to understand, and the kids to wonder why there parents are laughing so hard. All the sexual undertones in this movie, and many others, would go straight over there heads. Why? Well I would say number one is that kids aren’t meant to know about that kind of stuff until they are a little older, and two, we seem to sugar coat the truth when we talk to children, put it into terms to make it safe for their innocent minds.
Sure, really they would have implied that the cat was turned on by this sentence. Children would take it as a little romance, a nice ending with a skunk finding her true love, in a different species. However, we as more learned people of society, with more corrupt minds, immediately think that really he’s just turned on, and also that the idea of cross species breeding is rather abnormal. Although for kids, we sugar coat something like this enough that it goes right over there heads, so they can continue on in their innocent state.
I wonder though, how long this innocence lasts for. I’m no parent, but I’m sure parents would dread the day their kids grow up. The day their kids ask them where they came from, and don’t believe the stalk story anymore. This would be the turning point in the minds of children, where they realise not everything is like they were told. I remember hating my parents when they told me santa wasn’t real. It was the worst day of my life.
The truth is, we sugarcoat everything for these kids, so much that they miss out on important information. Now I’m not talking about the sex talk, cause they can have that when their older. What I mean is, how many kids know about global warming? Not many. We don’t tell children stuff that might scare them. We seem to believe that by keeping certain things from them, that we might save them from troubles, if only for a little while. Let them believe in santa, or the tooth fairy, cause when they grow up, there isn’t gonna be any magical fairy leaving money under their pillow.
Reality seems to harsh to tell children. However they have to face reality at some point. Even now children are becoming more aware at an earlier age about whats going on around them. I know when I was my sisters age, I didn’t know nearly as much as she does about sex. Kids are being introduced to things earlier.
But is this a good thing necessarily? I personally think that it was better for the children to believe that two animals could have the brain capacity to love one another, at least until they were old enough to realise that a skunk and a cat would never be interested in something as complicated as love.

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