Rated PG-13 for smoking?!?!?!?!?!

I think the OPs point was that smoking was part of the considerations in giving the PG-13. It seems absurd to me that thats on their short list of reasons to give it PG-13.

Better give 101 Dalmations an R for smoking and implied cruelty to animals

Donald Duck cartoons are R too for constant frontal male nudity except for when he comes out of the shower

Lion King should be PG-13 for pre-marital fornication in public.

Kids are getting asthma cause we shelter them too much, they get sick more often cause everythings so sanitary. Lets relax a bit a let kids live and get dirty and talk about genitals if its an appropriate topic. Parents need to teach their kids (like mine did to me) whats acceptable to say and that you probably dont want to find out what dog turds taste like, but hey its up to you big guy.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood was onto something.

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The girl was talking about penises and vaginas because she's a little kid that just learned about those things and she's curious. What is offensive about that? Are you gonna try to prevent your daughters from learning about sex until they move out of the house or something?

I agree with you. When they were in the lobby and she was promting him to share more information, she started to say "penis" over and over just to get him to do what she wanted. That was her being a brat, and not curious.

jjamison-2: You need to loosen up. How can using the correct, medical/anatomical terms for body parts be considered vulgar, much less offensive enough to warrant child abuse (washing a child's mouth out with soap is abusive, honey...)? I thought the whole exchange was quite funny, mostly because it was a sensitive issue that should not be. Thanks for the laugh.

Some parents shouldn't be parents.

Maya wasn't doing anything wrong by saying penis and vagina. Both are scientific words.

I sure hope you don't do that with your daughters. Perhaps when you swear next, your husband/boyfriend can wash your mouth out with soap and you'll understand what it feels like.

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"by jjamison-2 » Thu Mar 12 2009 12:18:30
As a mother with 2 daughters, I felt like washing Abigal Breslin's mouth out with soap. I know that no words are out of bounds now, but to hear a little girl talk casually about a penis and a vagina is still not necessary. As for the rest of the movie, I thought it was so-so. Smoking was not offensive-- but the dialogue was."


Holy shiat I'm SO glad you aren't my mother you nasty prude. Clearly you are republican who probably loves censorship.

@ Bb-rDw - 12-year-olds are too young to know about sex? Why so many adults still hold to the Victorian concept of the purity of children is beyond me. I had my first period at age 11. I would have thought I was dying, had I not received informational pamphlets on the menstrual cycle from my doctor and stumbled across the entry for "sex" in my school's library encyclopedia at age 9. Most first world children have other resources they can rely on when their parents fail to provide them with certain information, but it should indeed be the parents' responsibility to discuss such things with their children and even go into detail once the children are nearing or are already undergoing puberty. Even if they know all the "dirty details," no child is going to have a physical interest in sex just because they have the knowledge of it - I found the mere idea of it thoroughly disgusting until I reached my early to mid-teens - which seems to be what most parents are afraid of.

What I find disturbing is that a child can witness a murder or other violent act on-screen with as low as a PG rating, while anything remotely sexual requires at least a PG-13 rating. Call me crazy, but I'd much rather my child be exposed to sex before they ever have to be exposed to any type of violence. Sex is a healthy, natural act (and is actually necessary for the continuation of the human race), and violence is about as low as human behavior can sink.

Not to dismiss or diminish the dangers of smoking at all, but have you not heard of HIV, AIDS, gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, venereal warts, or the multitudes of other sexually transmitted diseases? I could quite successfully argue against your statement that smoking is more dangerous than sex. Sex can easily be more stupid and equally or more damaging than smoking.