После вчерашнего обсуждения методов защитной агрессии и всего...

After yesterday’s discussion of methods of defensive aggression and all this, we sat down to watch the cartoon Luntik with my daughter in the evening. Tasia, who previously preferred Masha and Fixikov to him, now for some reason has fallen in love with the unpretentious worldly ups and downs of an alien bee. And I decided to find out something about the role models offered by modern animation.

Mila appeared in the frame. Mila is a local, earthly, ladybug, who, in the triumvirate of friends who have developed at the center of the narrative - Luntik, Kuzya (a grasshopper grasshopper) and, in fact, Mila - takes a strange position for me as a “girl”.
The strange reason is: in my childhood, boys did not take girls to play with them. The boys played separately - scampering on the roofs of garages, throwing stones at windows, making secret heroic attacks on a neighboring yard, and other feats that give the ability to work in a team and the spirit of competition. The girls wove baubles (a fad brought by me from Moscow), played sedentary games such as “Edible-inedible” or “Monk in blue pants” or “We went to the ball”, requiring logic, communication and analytical skills. Apparently, there was laid the gender division. Sometimes they played general games - bouncers there, hide and seek or snowballs. But even then, boys and girls were divided into “ours and yours” and only family ties could overcome this watershed (well, I rather played along with my brother than my girlfriend, etc.).

The only one who spit on these divisions and with the ease of an armor-piercing ram ramed all the watersheds, dragging me along was my adored friend Alenka. She considered girlish entertainment not sufficiently fascinating, her boiling blood needed to check all the garage roofs many times faster than any boy. She ruled in their company, with an iron hand, enforcing order and obedience to the orders of the ataman. She patronized me - I looked at her adoringly, and this is always pleasant to the leader; and I rushed with rapture into all the adventures she activated, not unreasonably believing her to be my personal Peppy Longstocking.

Yes, she was a girl, she was friends with boys, and she was her boyfriend there.
I’m here, I don’t know examples of the friendship of several boys with a girl, if she is just a girl-chorus. They can play together, even be friends, if there are no other options; play pranks together - if the girl is cocky, too. But a couple of boys are friends with the crybaby-wickedness, which appears Mila in the series - is unlikely.

Because Mila is just that crybaby and hysterical. The only way to get her way for her is to start crying. Kuzya immediately gives up (he cannot stand women's tears), Luntik gently calls everyone to reconciliation and compromise (I already love this purple guy). Tasia expressed disapproval by such methods; this is supposedly unworthy and not her version. It sounded particularly funny, because Tasin’s eyes swell with tears like a professional actress, should she understand that something is not going according to her plan. Looking at each other, the nanny and I supported her disapproving attitude to such behavior - suddenly de help)

I asked Tasia what other women are in the series. I am not responsible for the accuracy, but Tasia listed the following:
- Elina. Butterfly, she is the only normal girl in the film. I don’t know what “normal” means, but Tasia insisted on it
- Other butterflies - stupid talkers and saboteurs. Very stupid.
- Grandmother. She is good and takes care of Luntik, feeds him.
- Toad. She is stupid, but sweet, not harmful. Only very big.
- Leech. Little is clear about her.
- Bees. They are hardly visible, but they work a lot.

Here is what I want to say about this.
Thank you, dear television, that between caring grandmothers, hardworking bees, crying ladybugs, toads, leeches and stupid harmful butterflies, you took care to give us Elina. She is said to be normal!