<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Well,</div>The girl seemed to be having a lot of fun at it. And I suppose I would prefer an awareness of the existence of family violence to a girl misleaded into believing that certain things don't exist (until it happens to them). I feel that it is really cultural, for lack of a better word, the American (but not all Americans) tendency to hide stuff from children. Personally, I feel it is better to make children aware as soon as possible of sexism and oppression, so they can learn to defend themselves.<div>That's my two cents.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Valentina Pagliai</div><div>Oberlin College</div><div><br><div><br><div><div>On May 1, 2008, at 9:04 PM, Campbell, Heather wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I must say, I agree with your concerns. Powerful film, but as an early childhood educator, I am extremely conflicted about this. There was a duty of care towards the wellbeing of the young child acting in this film, and I wonder if the possible benefits deriving from the film (that is, raising awareness of domestic violence and its effect upon children) justify the potential harm inflicted upon the child involved.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Heather Campbell<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> International Gender and Language Association [<a href="mailto:GALA-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">mailto:GALA-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sarah Wagner<br> <b>Sent:</b> Friday, 2 May 2008 9:45 AM<br> <b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:GALA-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">GALA-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a><br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [GALA-L] Daddies and mummies<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div> <div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">All I can think is, what about this young "actor" who is doing this? What is she thinking as she says all of these horrible things? You can't, even in an acting context, make this sound like "pretend" can you? It's an incredible film, unbelievable (and incredibly important message of course), but I'm so conflicted about the reality of making it.<o:p></o:p></p> <div><p class="MsoNormal">----- Original Message ----<br> From: Megan Crowhurst <<a href="mailto:mcrowhurst@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU">mcrowhurst@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU</a>><br> To: <a href="mailto:GALA-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">GALA-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a><br> Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2008 4:09:43 PM<br> Subject: Re: [GALA-L] Daddies and mummies<br> <br> Well, there's a frighteningly powerful message <br> about how kids internalize and learn to reproduce <br> domestic partner abuse. I'm forwarding this to <br> our SafePlace volunteer co-ordinator...<br> <br> <br> At 10:25 PM +0200 5/1/08, Goretty Robles Fernández wrote:<br> >I'm speechless.<br> ><a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/336489/papas_y_mamas_daddies_mummies/" target="_blank">http://www.metacafe.com/watch/336489/papas_y_mamas_daddies_mummies/</a><br> <br> <br> -- <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> Megan J. 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