Went Christmas shopping for kids and discovered...
All the action figures look like they are on heavy doses of gear! I remeber the GI Joe's from the early 70's, but have not payed that much attention to action heroes until I started shopping for my nephews. Its just an irony i can't let go of: A country that makes gear as illegal as crack yet applaudes the results of gear in sports and apperance.
Re: Went Christmas shopping for kids and discovered...
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Originally posted by lil' juicer
All the action figures look like they are on heavy doses of gear! I remeber the GI Joe's from the early 70's, but have not payed that much attention to action heroes until I started shopping for my nephews. Its just an irony i can't let go of: A country that makes gear as illegal as crack yet applaudes the results of gear in sports and apperance.
You're right - what you've described is often called the "adonis complex," which impacts kids through everything from the redesigned, bulked-up GI Joe to today's WWF (when compared to the pro wrestling that my grandfather used to watch years ago).
Want some fun reading? Go to Yahoo and do a search on "GI Joe" and steroids (put the "GI Joe" in quotation marks). You'll see a load of articles that have addressed this issue.
And I hate to tell ya - this does not only influence our kids, it influences us as well.