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Is that not generally what happens though? I mean Ethel is a super sized pain in Mildred’s ass, but she doesn’t hurt her. In my childhood experience, this is very much in the vein of how adults react to this sort of beef between kids.

yes, it’s a realistic depiction of how bully is often handled by adults. that’s why it’s dangerous. 

it’s conditioning children to expect to be mistreated, ignored, and gas lit. that their only option to avoid bullying is to befriend someone who hates them. To be friends w ppl who are willing to hurt them, mentally and physically. bc Ethel has, on several occasions, intentionally physically harmed Mildred in addition to the near constant bullying and resulting emotional strain. and Ethel’s behaviour has barely been acknowledged, let rectified in any way. 

it’s teaching children to expect to be hurt, and to downgrade the experiences of children who suspect that they’re being abused and bullied to say nothing bc it’s nothing, really, nothing’s really wrong with how their being treating and they shouldn’t make a fuss. bc even if they say something, no one is listening. 

all media carries conditioned ideas and biases bc that’s how an organic society functions: it maintains its own existence by convincing its citizens that existing status quos are necessary for a functioning and ideally prosperous future. It’s why progresses towards equality are slow and gradual, bc a living organism can only do so much growing at once before it needs to take a break, settling itself, and refuel. 

this show is no different. often, it holds what society regards as positive traits up as ideals to encourage children to care about kindness, and friendship, and working hard to become something productive. but it also replicates harmful real world standards: incompetent or uncaring adults neglecting their responsibilities, abuses of power, and the apparently inevitability of being bullied as a child and no one caring bc ‘it’s not bad enough.’ 

bc, of course, it could be worse, couldn’t it? just like every trauma sufferer thinks about the damage caused to them, no matter how quantifiable and objectively serious the harm.

narratives have purposes. primarily to entertain. but children-focused narrative have always been used to teach lessons, or give advice, and show children what society will look like when they grow up and how they should grow up  into it. and as @fanchonmoreau points out, “kids will take what they’re given.” they’re not in the habit of critically engaging w media, or anything else for that matter, in the way that adults can, and on occasion, actually do. 

to include a standard as potentially dangerous as inevitable bullying and a lack of care from adults, and impress it upon 10yos for the sake of a poorly executed plot device is negligent. this, along w the fact that the show carries no obvious acknowledgement of the bias incorporated into the narrative logic, means that the series is currently doing nothing to counteract it. bc there is no explicit awareness of what the show is, at the heart of it, actually saying about these issues.

As a result, it’s asserting a status quo that only benefits bullies and abusers by insisting on the silence of their targets. and that’s what the young audiences watching will grow up thinking is normal. so yes, it’s what generally happens. and that’s the problem.

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