I may as well respond to the Hocus Pocus stuff, even if late.
maybe its just a shitty liberal background, but thats part of the fun, people forget how different Gen-X was especially when it came to stuff like sex. teen pregnancy was at an all time high around that time despite the AIDs crisis for a reason. talking about sex was and considered "part of puberty" back then, younger sisters mocking the main character for being a virgin or loser was a huge trope back then.
also virgin blood is such a huge trope in old timey stories that it shouldn't be as big of a weird note and only is because of how sanitized these stories have become. sure people of a certain age will point out how weird the sex stuff is, but i bet to zoomers the whole "everyones white and straight" thing is another point against it. You might as well question why there aren't any moms in old animated disney films or why chose ones always seem to be adopted/orphans. don't blame the film for the weird cultural hangups of the prussians from centuries ago.
I am not sure I really have a problem with sex depicted in media, or even really talked about in kids media, I just think Hocus Pocus is poorly written that the random adults getting on a young teenager for not having sex seems weird.
The film itself is not really that funny and the plot is shit, so I think more comes off more poorly than was intended. Really, the saving grace of the film was the performances of the three witches, but past that it was pretty hard to have interest.
I guess my thoughts are it’s a bad film. If you like it, cool. I hope I don’t come off as calling for a ban as I genuinely don’t care about the content.
obviously i'm not that close with the younger ones, but i feel like their exposure to adult things is much more behind where people born in the 20th century was, but its probably a lot more based on parenting but culture has a fuckload more to do with it, no major blockbuster since 2014 has hot chicks showing off their skin like we had with star trek ito darkness, xmen first class, transformers, etc. even Megan Fox's brief career as a sex symbol isn't something that has been done effectively since, just having a hot chick for the main character to make out with at the end of the film is rare now.
I am going to disagree on this. I don’t think kids are really that behind, hell, most seem to feel they are way ahead on sexualizing themselves.
If we are looking at Zoomer kids shows there has still been tons of questionable material. For early Zoomers, many have taken to Total Drama and Victorious, which are pretty infamous for their questionable content. Really, anything made by Dan the Man or FreshTV was pretty what the fuck at times. As for the later ones, they could get indoctrinated into Tumblr shipping fetishes through Steven Universe or any Cal Farts show. If they don’t have that, then it is weird internet videos like Elsagate content. Movies and tv may not have much of what you are talking about anymore, but kids barely watch them as HollyWood only really caters to desperate Gen Xers and Millennials now. The content is still there, but the game changed.
This does bring up another point about "for kids" entertainment. what people believe should be ok for kids, especially now is much stricter than years ago. I remember Rocky Horror being my favorite movie as a kid, having it on a constant loop at family gatherings because of slightly older (middle school) cousins into it.
I am not sure it is more strict on sexual content as this thread has clearly shown, Disney is willing to now dive head first into periods and gays. It is just that most creators now are desperate Tumblr women from years ago, so they want to make their smutty orgy rather than the straight content they watched.
