This is something that has annoyed me for quite a while and I'm just wondering whether it's just me being over sensitive, or whether any other parents agree.
It's that horror film dvds are displayed on such low down shelves in supermarkets etc where children can easily see them. Some of them are really horrible, and I know I wouldn't want my daughter to see them.
To me it's just a matter of common sense. People have a right to buy these movies if they want to - absolutely fine. Why can't the shops just display them higher up, where adults can easily see them but they won't be right in the face of any passing 5 year old? Wouldn't that make more sense?
I was in Asda yesterday and they have a horror section from floor level and there was some pretty grim images there. I've attached a pic of one of the ones that was at toddler eye-level. Would you mind your young child seeing this image of a mutilated face sewed up where the eyes/mouth etc should be? Personally it makes me want to vom.
AIBU?
Horror film dvds on display at child eye-level - not okay or AIBU?
Magicpaintbrush · 06/01/2016 09:47
Ha! 
I think, OP, you're confusing your feelings about this genre with your child's (and most other children's) feelings.
Nothing wrong with being scared of butterflies, those things are creepy.
But of course we can't hide absolutely everything that might conceivably scare a child, else everything under four foot would be just be a giant censor grid (until we find out some kid somewhere is scared of censor grids...). But when something is intended to scare an older teen/adult audience, it's reasonable to assume it may be even scarier to children (not all children, of course, but a more significant amount than those who are scared of Adam Sandler), and therefore it can't hurt to take reasonable precautions to not put it directly in their eyeline.
But when something is intended to scare an older teen/adult audience, it's reasonable to assume it may be even scarier to children
I don't think that logic necessarily holds. But that's just my opinion.
I was terrified of the toilet flushing. But I loved watching Steve McQueen battle The Blob.
It is sensible, I suppose, to not put it in their eyeline, assuming that all toddlers are in buggies in Asda as opposed to in the trolley seat (higher up) or being held (higher up still). But OP being irked about bus ads makes me think that's not quite where she's coming from. Bus ads aren't exactly in their eyeline, are they?
That's a good point about toddlers in trollies/being held, although actually I was thinking more older children that would walk around the supermarket (so I guess... five or six year olds?)
I'll be the first to admit I was a sensitive child - scared of balloons, butterflies and Goosebumps book covers. So the picture in the OP would have probably got to me.
I'm not concerned too much about bus adverts because they are, by their very nature, fleeting!
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