Now if there is one thing that rednecks like to do it’s drink beer.
Another thing we like to do is drink beer and watch sports.
Since all the sports we care to watch is over these days, with the exception of some of the members of the American Redneck Brotherhood Association of America, who like to watch NASCAR racing, we decided that we would watch and review a few movies.
You’ve seen our review of 2012, now here is our review of Where The Wild Things Are.
But first let me say this, all of us in the ARBAA have kids, and believe it or not we all have read to our kids at one time or another. One of the books I read to both of my younguns was Where The Wild Things Are and when we found out it was going to be made into a movie, well we really kind of sorta, almost couldn’t wait to see it.
So we all got together to watch the movie.
It’s about a little boy named Max, that is kind of on the spoiled side and has a major discipline problem, with a lot of violent outbursts. He tears up stuff at home, screams a lot and basically throws a fit at the drop of a hat.
This kid could fling a hissy faster than Matt Dillon could pull a gun.
In the book Max gets sent to his room without supper because of behavioral problems.
In the movie the little twerp throws a fit in the kitchen, while his mother is entertaining a friend (possibly a boy-friend but I was busy opening a beer and missed the part where they explained what he was).
Either way, Max winds up running out of the house and getting on a boat and sailing of to this island where the wild things live, and he starts tormenting them right off the bat.
First he befriends them, then being the brat that he is, starts causing them to argue amongst themselves and winds up alienating the one that befriended him first.
It ends with him sailing back home and being hugged by his mother who ‘missed him so much’.
We were sitting and drinking in the movie as well as a few cold ones, when finally Dave spoke up; “You know if Max was my youngun, going to bed without supper would be one of his least worries.”
“Yep.” I agreed, “Being able to sit down, would be his biggest problem.”
Floyd was sitting there looking very studious as we bantered about the need for Max’s rear end to be introduced to the palm of his mother’s hand, when he finally spoke up.
“You know…” Floyd began, “This here book and movie is a prediction of what is wrong with this world, when the book was written this thing accurately predicted what it would be like when they finally outlawed the butt-whooping.”
“How do you mean?” Ray asked.
“Well it’s simple, you see his mom used the old go to bed without your supper punishment, and she would even lecture him a little and he had no problem being a brat, because he didn’t get any real punishment from it.
See his mom just talked a little loud at him, she didn’t yell, she didn’t bust his butt, she didn’t go and cut a switch to stripe his legs with. He got away with it, and he will grow up to think that he deserves to get away with everything. It’s like society now, kids don’t really get punished anymore, they can pretty much do what they want without fear of being punished.”
“Like when the little boy slapped his mother in Wal-Mart that day and she didn’t do anything because she didn’t believe in spanking her children.” Dave said.
“Exactly.” Floyd said. “This kid will grow up to be mean and of no worth to society, because he has never had to atone for his ways or feel the results of bad acts.”
It was then that Henry said, “You know if that boy had tried that with Irene (Henry’s wife), I believe he would have changed his mind about some of his doings.”
“Hell, if he had tried that with Irene, the whole movie would lasted seven and a half minutes.” Dave said.
“Yep it would have went like this; “Henry began.. “Kid comes home from school, throws a fit and tears up stuff, Irene says ‘Boy! You better get yer butt over here right now!’ Whack whack whack…’Ow momma, I’m sorry, ow it will never happen again.’ Whack whack whack. ‘Now you get yer butt in there and clean that dadblamed mess up, or I’m really going to give you a whupping.’ The end”
“But if it went like that we wouldn’t have had time to drink all of this beer.” Ray said.
All in all we tried to watch the movie, it didn’t stink as bad as 2012 but it was terribly depressing.
Not to mention it proved once and again that appeasing your children for bad behavior just leads to worse behavior.
On the ARBAA Rotted Road Kill Possum Meter it gets a two and a half out of five, with five being as bad as it gets.
The Wild Things looked a lot like they did in the book so it gets credit for that.
People used to think it was necessary to “spank” adult members of the community, military trainees, and prisoners. In some countries they still do. In our country, it is considered sexual battery if a person over the age of 18 is “spanked”, but only if over the age of 18.
For one thing, because the buttocks are so close to the genitals and so multiply linked to sexual nerve centers, striking them can trigger powerful and involuntary sexual stimulus in some people. There are numerous physiological ways in which it can be sexually abusive, but I won’t list them all here. One can use the resources I’ve posted if they want to learn more.
Child buttock-battering vs. DISCIPLINE:
Child buttock-battering (euphemistically labeled “spanking”,”swatting”,”switching”,”smacking”, “paddling”,or other cute-sounding names) for the purpose of gaining compliance is nothing more than an inherited bad habit.
Its a good idea for people to take a look at what they are doing, and learn how to DISCIPLINE instead of hit.
I think the reason why television shows like “Supernanny” and “Dr. Phil” are so popular is because that is precisely what many (not all) people are trying to do.
There are several reasons why child bottom-slapping isn’t a good idea. Here are some good, quick reads recommended by professionals:
Plain Talk About Spanking
by Jordan Riak,
The Sexual Dangers of Spanking Children
by Tom Johnson,
NO VITAL ORGANS THERE, So They Say
by Lesli Taylor M.D. and Adah Maurer Ph.D.
Most compelling of all reasons to abandon this worst of all bad habits is the fact that buttock-battering can be unintentional sexual abuse for some children. There is an abundance of educational resources, testimony, documentation, etc available on the subject that can easily be found by doing a little research with the recommended reads-visit the website of Parents and Teachers Against Violence In Education at nospank.net.
Just a handful of those helping to raise awareness of why child bottom-slapping isn’t a good idea:
American Academy of Pediatrics,
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
American Psychological Association,
Center For Effective Discipline,
Churches’ Network For Non-Violence,
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
Parenting In Jesus’ Footsteps,
Global Initiative To End All Corporal Punishment of Children,
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In 26 countries, child corporal punishment is prohibited by law (with more in process). In fact, the US was the only UN member that did not ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
You do understand this was written as humor, right?
Now as far as your comment let’s break it down.
People used to think it was necessary to “spank” adult members of the community, military trainees, and prisoners. In some countries they still do. In our country, it is considered sexual battery if a person over the age of 18 is “spanked”, but only if over the age of 18.
Most people over the age of 18 are doing it for a twisted fetish, and if you will check their backgrounds most will confess it was because they were never spanked as a child and the have a strange desire to go through that type of discipline. For you to compare a spanking to sexual battery is really a slap in the face to every person that has been or ever will be sexually abused, molested or raped.
For one thing, because the buttocks are so close to the genitals and so multiply linked to sexual nerve centers, striking them can trigger powerful and involuntary sexual stimulus in some people.
The only stimulas I ever received from it was the make sure I didn’t do that again stimulas.
Child buttock-battering (euphemistically labeled “spanking”,”swatting”,”switching”,”smacking”, “paddling”,or other cute-sounding names) for the purpose of gaining compliance is nothing more than an inherited bad habit.
Battering in the true sense of the word, (1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows. 2. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse. 3. To damage, as by heavy wear.) is far different than the occasional swat on the behind.
So what would you have these parents do? Give them a time out? Talk to them? Accept bad behavior and move on? Put them on drugs that would modify their behavior by altering their minds? Turn them over to the state to raise? Give them to the U.N.? Get real.
As for your sources;
Plain Talk About Spanking by Jordan Riak, Isn’t this is the guy that compared teachers that spanked to prostitutes, rapists and lynch mobs. Really a classy guy.
As for the doctors you have listed, if you check you will find that there are just as many that are against corporal punishment as there are for it.
Churches Network For Non-Violence - It’s interesting that most churches practiced and still do practice corporal punishment in their school systems.
DR. Phil - I wasn’t aware that he was so popular, especially after the infidelity issues arose.
SuperNanny? We see how well those techniques work on the youth of Britain. Cause Britain doesn’t have a problem with youth crime do they?
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu - Nobel Prize winner huh? Wow! You left out bigot and anti semitic. Not to mention the fact that he does not practice what he preaches. How about throwing Yassir Arafat in there, he was a nobel peace prize winner.
Parenting In Jesus’ Footsteps Isn’t Jesus the one that said “Spare the rod and spoil the child.”?
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Now this one is really a laugh, I would like to hear three things that the U.N. has been involved in that is not corrupt, or a total failure.
Let’s see, sanctions against Iraq, nope that didn’t work, sanctions against China? Oh wait they were too afraid to take on the Chinese. Sanctions against North Korea? Nope those didn’t work either. Aid for South Africa? Let’s see everything is getting diverted to warlords and the U.N. does nothing to help protect the people. Bosnia? Nooooo, been there done that, saw the U.N.’s impotence. So as far as I am concerned they are not a reliable source.
In fact the only difference between the mafia and the U.N. is that the mafia has some honor still.
Oh well thank you for your comment