Doom Patrol
by Grant Morrison · first published 2008
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In Grant Morrison's seminal Doom Patrol run, he forwarded the idea that traditional children's stories and fairy tales were actually deliberately meant to traumatize children, to get them ready for harsh reality.
on “Main characters are more likely to die in children's cartoons” ↗I believe telling small children scary stories so they would refrain from doing something particular damaging is quite common among many cultures. In Grant Morrison's seminal "Doom Patrol" run, he talks about fairy tales as a means of traumatizing children to prepare them for life. And when children once grow older or are particularly smart, they would mistrust it and everything adults…
on “How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger” ↗For a second I thought this was going to be about the Scissormen[0] (whose name I misremembered), who are meta-fictional villains from Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol run that... well, it would take too long to explain, but luckily someone made a blog post[1][2]. I guess I could try to come up with some tenuous connection between the two, with erasure and censorship,…
on “The Eraser Men” ↗