Gerard Jones Violent Media Is Good For Kids Summary

In “Violent Media Is Good For Kids,” Gerard Jones takes his position on how the comic books violence has led him to further develop as a person and inspire his career as a writer. In fact, he talked about how the Hulk led him out of passivity and loneliness as a young kid. But this is only about one person and not everybody else. Nobody is the same in this world. Many of Jones acknowledgements in this story come from self-accomplishments through reading comics and violent media that has led his path to success. He states how he “followed the Hulk to make new friends in the geek world.” This statement can emphasize on how he had things in common with other people at his school and allowed him to be outspoken. These comics gave him courage to stand up and be himself, but it could have also led him to be crazy and unstable in the head. It seems
But he argues that “it’s helped hundreds of people for everyone its hurt.” This is a major difference between the two but this is not proven it’s only his thoughts. Jones also states how modern kids “grow up to passive, too distrustful of themselves, too easily manipulated.” This statement can’t be directed toward every kid. The society is changing in many ways and these kids seem to becoming more outspoken and unstable from these medias. Another part of supporting evidence for Jones is a Psychologist named Melanie Moore. She states that “children need violent entertainment in order to explore the inescapable feelings that they’ve been taught to deny, and to reintegrate those feelings into a more whole, more complex, more resilient selfhood.” Many kids in this society bring out these feelings and use them in a negative way. Not every kid is the same and some kids would not be able to bring these feelings of rage to a complex selfhood and would instead use them to harm