> Why do you think they (we) are reacting against it?
The parents I talk to in my neighborhood and at the gym have gone all-in on the safetyism. Many of them have said they don't want to neglect their kids the way they were neglected. I've also talked to a couple of my neighbor's older kids (18+) and they say they feel suffocated. They can't believe I "got away with" reading Clive Barker when I was still a pre-teen; their parents relentlessly vet all kinds of media and only let their kids access "age-appropriate" material that isn't "triggering". Hell, I've even had one parent in the neighborhood turn on me after I lent her nineteen-year-old daughter a spare copy of Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone. That mother should be grateful I haven't introduced her daughter to Jacqueline Carey or China Miéville.
The parents I talk to in my neighborhood and at the gym have gone all-in on the safetyism. Many of them have said they don't want to neglect their kids the way they were neglected. I've also talked to a couple of my neighbor's older kids (18+) and they say they feel suffocated. They can't believe I "got away with" reading Clive Barker when I was still a pre-teen; their parents relentlessly vet all kinds of media and only let their kids access "age-appropriate" material that isn't "triggering". Hell, I've even had one parent in the neighborhood turn on me after I lent her nineteen-year-old daughter a spare copy of Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone. That mother should be grateful I haven't introduced her daughter to Jacqueline Carey or China Miéville.