>>149804837
>girl watches a movie where the MC goes through an embarrassing experience and thus, experiences embarrassment
>viewer girl relates the way she was intended to relate, and also feels a level of embarrassment, the feeling she is supposed to feel in that moment
>this is somehow Bad

Like, I sorta get that people watch movies for entertainment, and sometimes they feel a little bad about getting negative emotions that they weren’t expecting out of their entertainment. But I’m also really sick of reviews that say “this movie made me/my kid feel anything at all aside from pure joy, and that scares and confuses me. Obviously this means that something is wrong with the movie and not that we are emotionally immature and incapable of addressing our own feelings.”

Embarrassment is a perfectly normal and natural feeling and it is okay for kids to experience it a little bit so that they can learn and grow. Pixar made two other movies about why feelings aside from happiness are useful.

It is fine to be in the same room as your dad while a movie that has a scene with pads in it shows on the screen, and to become aware that he knows you menstruate. That is a growing up kinda experience. The ultimate message of Turning Red was meant to be that that is okay and you don’t need to be ashamed of your body.