Things I just can't handle

I can't watch a movie or TV show where a child--especially an infant or toddler--is harmed or abused. I just can't take it.

I know it's not real. I know it's a work of fiction and any resemblance to any persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. But, deep down in my unreasonable and overactive subconcious, it seems real.

It's worse if it actually did happen--like on CNN. Stories about horrible things that happen to children in this world haunt me.

All this means there are several films I just can't bring myself to watch. Don't get me wrong--if you dig films where that sort of thing happens, and you can watch them, then good. I don't cast aspersions on you. It's just something that I personally can't handle. I'm not talking about that sick, twisted porno that some monsters like to watch--I'm talking TV shows like Law and Order: SVU.

Next thing, though, is animals. I'm the same way about those, dogs in particular. And in American cinema, if a dog is a major part of a film, he's gonna be dead before the end. Not something I care to see, thank you.

I guess I'm turning into a big ol' wimp in my old age.