my mom used to be happy with my brother watching Doraemon because Doraemon is always after Nobita to do his homework, leave his shoes at the door etc. and so is Nobita's mom. so my mom was all like he's learning Hindi (it was the Hindi dubbed version that used to air on Cartoon Network for us) and learning 'good values' to boot
on a serious note, i don't think you merely ranted, you made sense. a lot of the ways i think were formed by my early reading habits, so yep, what we consume is important.