By. Jacqueline Y.
Cartoons have became the staple of everyone's
childhood. From television to the Internet, no child can escape the grip that
cartoons have had on their psyche. Most people don't want to believe cartoons
shape the way kids think and help form their personality, but they do. I know
firsthand. I was born in 1998 when the Powerpuff
Girls, Kim Possible, and Beauty and the Beast were around. These
cartoons helped shape who I am today. These cartoons taught me important
lessons that I use today, but cartoons today have something different to them
that I never experienced when I was a kid.
Today’s
shows are like Steven Universe, Avatar: The Last Airbender, My Little Pony, and Gravity Falls. These shows have become the staple of this
generation's kids, so are they good? These have a lot of things in common with
the cartoons I grew up with. They're all fun and educational, but they just
don't just have that. These shows take risks. At the end The Legend of Korra, we find out the main character is bisexual and
in Steven Universe the character
Garnet is a fusion of a gay couple (the characters are genderless, but use
female pronouns). Even shows liked My
Little Pony are breaking the wall of what people can call a “girl show” as plenty of men watch it.
This is why I believe that this generation has
more exposure to real life than I ever had as a kid. Cartoons of today are
starting to shape a new and more open generation.
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