Cohousing-L Mailing List: Funny tangent on Re: violent video games in CH

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

> It’s a hard line. Same with R rated movies. Do women have a right to disallow 
> R rated movies that trivialize and advocate abuse of women? Who decides which 
> demean women and which are just good fun?

When I was a youth minister (and a quite lousy one) I needed a movie for a 
“lock-in”. I don’t watch many movies, and certainly not ones teens would like. 

So I tell the movie store kid I need a “church appropriate” teen movie. He 
hands me several with weapons on the cover. “These don’t have sex” he says.

Hmm. “I’d rather have sex than violence” I offered. He was totally unable to 
compute. And I was unable to explain. 

And thus, I rented two (non-violent) movies that all the teens refused to watch.

-Liz
(The Rev.) Elizabeth M. Magill
www.ecclesiaministriesmission.org
www.mosaic-commons.org in Berlin, MA
508-450-0431