#however. they've never honestly *thought* about the context and reasons said family were sent overseas

[clamorybus]

ok do i understand why a lot of toddler and kid shows give characters parents and family in the military/police; "real kids in real life are in military/police families so we're just trying to be realistic", whatever

but said show runners never seem to think about the implications beyond that, or think about how kids outside of those contexts, who don't have those warm fuzzy (or even neutral) feelings, would see it

#like my niece was a toddler when disney first got their hands on bluey so ive seen a lot of the show #and every so often its mentioned that bluey's maternal granddad was in the australian army. likely in the 1970s & 80s #idr if its every specified how long he was in the army for or where he was; just that it was “in the jungle” #it could've been thailand vietnam western new guinea kashmir or where ever. and they just drop it like a casual funny thing like! #'haha granddad you're so fun show us how to camouflage ourselves with mud like when you had to hide in the jungle :)' #like. i get *why* the showrunners did stuff like this: they grew up where that sort of thing was normal* and just want to portray 'reality' #*meaning they had older family members who were in the military and were stationed overseas #however. they've never honestly *thought* about the context and reasons said family were sent overseas #and that it was terrible they were over there for reaspns beyond that they couldn't see their father in oerson for awhile #or like how steven universe (shut up) had that episode where we meet steven's racist uncle #and the showrunners were like 'its for (white) kids to relate to because we all have a relative who hates illegal immigrants' #without even taking into consideration (or just not caring) that kids of color and immigrant children would see that #im rambling but yknow what i mean? #mickey.txt