From Stephen King To Slenderman Analysis

In the article, “ From Stephen King to Slenderman: Why the horror genre is particularly horrible for women” by Anne Elizabeth Moore found on Salon.com. It discusses the character Slenderman and the 12 year olds who tried to kill one of their friends. In this generation kids are taking Internet fictional characters and seeing them as being realistic. Their parents are clearly unable to teach them fantasy verses reality thus causing appalling events to happen. In a recent tragic event two young girls tried to kill their “best friend” to be a part of a fictional characters world named slenderman. They stabbed their friend 19 times in the wood attempting to murder her so they would fit into this society. It is awful that two young girls are unaware of what they did wrong. This situation is just mind blowing considering slenderman is clearly not real. It does not make sense when two girls can just go about their days planning for months to kill one of their friends, they either need therapy or to …show more content…
Some reasons could be that the parents do not monitor what their children are doing enough, or the kids are unable to tell the difference from fantasy verses reality. Also discusses the destructiveness it is able to do to women, and that horror films are not good for women.
In these generations instead of being able to go outside and play and make memories with their friends, children are forgetting about that. All they want to do is play video games, go on the Internet, and watch television. Most of the things they are doing revolve around violence, unrealistic characters etc., and none of this is normally overseen by parents. Maybe it is because they think their children are too innocent and would not be able to hurt anyone, but in these younger generations kids with Internet connections could be a recipe for disaster. Mainly them just not understanding fiction over