Linda Christensen:Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us

"I realized these problems weren't just in cartoons. They were in everything - every magazine I picked up, every television show I watched, every billboard I passed by on the street."

When I read this quote I really thought about how stereotypes are always around us. People always judge each other based on their backgrounds, what they look like, or how they act. This is like SCWAMP because it tells us the certain type of people that do not get judged no matter what they do in life. I feel like stereotypes have calmed down over the years but they obviously still do exist because of the issues that we have today.

"Turning off the cartoon doesn't stop the sexism and racism. They can't escape, and now that they've started analyzing cartoons, they can't stop analyzing the rest of the world."

As I read this quote, all I kept thinking was that it was so true. These issues have been around for so long that these issues will always be around us. Even though over the years I feel that people have resolved some part of these issues but there is still racism and sexism. Although some people do not see this issues, they really have not opened up their eyes to see that this around them no matter if they do not talk about the issue.

"When we read children's books, we aren't just reading cute little stories, we are discovering the tools with which a young society is manipulated."

This is so true because in reality we are not reading in between the lines of what stories are really saying. We think we are reading these nice stories to kids but in reality we are reading them something so they can be manipulated to believe that something is true when its not. These books are how children are going to thing how the world runs and that information stays with them until they find out that everything they learned is false.


I found that this was one of the best readings because this opened my eyes the most. I never realized that issues can lie even in the last place I would think of, a children's book. I have learned that what you tell a child when they are young something, that they will have that knowledge with them and they will think that it was life is when technically it is not. All of the issues that are talked about in this reading still occurs today but I feel as though it is not that big of a deal because people have calmed down about some of the issues.