yes. I agree with what everyone around here has said. I'm 19, in college, and think that the movies and stuff is really cool but the stuff your friend is saying has gone... well... a bit too far. Now as far as frozen, that is really cool go watch it. lolts

@Ggf, I agree on  with you on conforming, it's quite depressing. indeed, if I were to pick the route of if not all evil, at least a large percentage I'd say it's human kind's propensity to form into groups and then exclude anyone outside that group.

I disagree on "balancing betwene rational good or emotional bad" sinse frankly7 i  actually think the western idea of separating rationality  and pure logic from emotions is incorrect. it is an idea that goes back as far as aristotle, and the Griek belief in the rational, human soul, the baser animal soul, and the vital plant soul, but the more we learn about the intigration of experience the less this idea really makes much sense.

I also do not agree that intelligence and creativity are directly related to each other, or that you could have creativity without emotion, indeed it's quite noteable how many great artists, mathematicians, musicians and other individuals were both highly emotional and highly rational in equal measures.

That is however not really something to debate in this topic.

Well Dark I'm embarrassed about having briefly liked power rangers because it was simply so bad and I never realised it, nothing to do with the target age. I'm not however embarrassed about having liked Knightmare, though when they reran a few episodes some years ago and my sister got to see it for the first time I did cringe a bit at how cheesy the acting was, still it was a good concept and there's not been anything quite like it.

Oh globbits.

@Aaron: Nicely written... Couldn't have done it better myself. Mainly because I haven't really watched MLP or read much about it, after watching a handful of episodes and it hadn't caught my interest I just decided to let it go... (Yes, Frosen reference... And I haven't watched that either)

I don't quite like the Word 'childish'... Immature sounds much better, especially since adults can act like that as well... And many seem to do, sadly...
As others have said a friendly talk about what's fine to say in public and what's not might be in its place since comments like those you posted are probably going to make people feel just slightly uncomfortable.
It might just be a way for him to get through some tough stuff, if he's gay and people in the area aren't very accepting/open-minded it can be hard.
Regarding fantasies... Nothing's wrong with those in my opinion. Most people have some sort of fantasy I'd say, from the more innocent ones to those that are waaay out there... But it's all fine with me. There are Things about me that a lot of people would find weird and I've had a hard time accepting those. Being different can be hard, and knowing that others would/do judge you for whatever makes you different doesn't make it any easier.
When I hear about something new, even if it freaks me out I try to gather as much information about it as I can to learn more. When I heard that there was a My Little Pony fandom I sat Down and watched a bunch of episodes and videos about it to find out what was so special about it. Turned out that it didn't say me anything, but then I knew.
You might not understand why people act/feel/do the way they do, but having an open mind and accept them can still help, and might possibly make them feel better.
On the other hand, people WHO exposes themselves and shake off others' comments might need some self control. It kinda goes both ways. Some seem to take acceptance for granted though, which isn't the case. By not acting like a d*ck to others they might gain the acceptance they seek. Acceptance and respect seems to be the keywords in whatever I'm trying to say...
This might not make that much sense, I am slightly tired and I tend to write Things as I come up with them without caring about editing it afterwards... Stream of consciousness for the win! ... Or something...

TLDR: No, it's not childish, it's just being immature... And remember to accept and respect other people's views/feelings/you name it.

(This just made me Wonder why people always put their 'too long, didn't read' comment at the end of their post... Wouldn't it make more sense to have it in the beginning, both as a warning for people WHO don't like long posts, but also so the person reading would actually see it? Just me having weird thoughts Again, excuse me.)

@Nocturnus, I agree, however interestingly nough at music school a few weeks ago I met a counter tenor (a man who sings entirely in falsetto), who was teaching me about voice range intigration and said that it's good for   the health and flexibility of your vocal cords to do a bit of high pitched "wheeeee!" from time to time.

Last week I read books 6-8 of the how to train your dragon series by Cressida Cowell, and they were hilarious, "master! you are so meen,your heart ismade of bogies!" .

I have seen the first film, and enjoyed it (a film  with some actual character and a very interesting looking world), but in a way I'm sad that they had to age the characters up to be teenagers, ad a random female  character and a romance plot, and  above all missed out on most of the Roald Dahl style craziness from the books!

I did as I said enjoy the film, but in a way the fact that they made a young adult film rather than a kids film was quite disappointing.

@Nocturnus, one interesting fact I've realized recently is that really most of the best parts of my character are those as a child. I had an intensive interest in philosophy, science and just about everything else wen I was 10-12, and still do (I'veben  studdying itfor years), where as the so called "Adult" stuff such as relationships have been an unmitigated disaster in my life and have given me nothing good at all (quite the opposite in fact). If you gave me the choice of which me I'd rather be for all eternity, 10, 20 or myself now at 30, I'd take the first every time, sinse really I'd not miss out on much in either of the other two states.

So suffice it to say, adult hood be buggered!" the only  good thing I can say for growing up is that your finally old enough to appreciate not being a kid .

@Cx2, nightmare is awsome! I'm just sorry they never produced it on dvd sinse while I've caught the odd  episode and clip it'd be great to see the full whack of it again, I'm actually amazed nobody has ever produced a nightmare audio game. I can't say the acting bothered me sinse I just find the 80's ethos of fantasy it's set in so appealing. There was a point that fantasy became a little  too serious, too rule orientated and over blown, but stuff like the original ff books or the lone wolf series on Project Aon or indeed Nightmare has something amazingly charming about it.

Go into the dungeon, find lots of weerd stuff, magical traps, disgusting monsters (who were of course far more interesting than just multiplicities of goblins), hack or blast them into submission, solve riddles and come out with the treasure!  Yes, it's been done infinite times before, but there was something just quite energetic and fun about how it was done in the 80's that made it particularly awsome.

For example, there is a wonderful section in I believe the  LoneWolf gamebook shadow on the sand when you run to the top of a tower in the Zakhan's palace chased by his many guards and find a conveniently place large, round ceremonial base drumb just above the long spiral staircase up which the hoard of nasty guards are coming.

A friend of mine once said  the choices given for that section should read "Do you want to push the drumb down the stairs or are you a completely miserable git with no sense of style!" .

That I must admit is my problem with a lot of super heroes either in cartoons or films. They're very much a standard thing to a formula  that repeats.

I wouldn't however say myself that I prefer animated or not, particularly sinse in terms of animation in japan and other eastern countries half the programs are animated you thus get animated soap operas, police dramas, horror shows and every other genre, (the idea all Anime are like Dragonball or Bleach is rather incorrect).

The characteristics I like in things may turn up in animated series, or they may not, but it is the essential quality of the writing, characters, the world, the humour etc that I appreciate rather than whether the medium is animated, film, or a novel.

I  do no longer own a tv license, though that is more because  so much on Tv is so called "reality shows" or rubbish about celebrities, and really why should I pay licensing fees to see people being idiots when I can do it for free? Usually if I want to watch something I either buy or borrow it on dvd, as I did with the Avatar series.

@Kenzon,
I think people are afraid of seeming childish or childlike far too often, but there are parts of a person that never change, attributes of one's character that remain constant throughout life, any of which can seem childish to anyone.  What about anger or bad attitude?  One might call them childish or immature, and yet they might simply be a small part of something deeper, an underlying truth that is hard to get to because it doesn't simply lie just beneath the surface for someone to scratch at, perhaps even accompanied by a neurological or hormonal issue.  Obviously this doesn't make that person's behavior acceptable by society's standards, which is why it is advisable that such things are taken care of.  On the other hand, something as innocent as watching a cartoon or fantasizing when the person in question could be out committing an act of vandalism is preferable to me personally, since they're not hurting anyone.  One could argue as to weather or not that person is using their resources and talents to their full potential and being a productive member of society, and I'd probably come along and tel anyone who wished to argue that point that if they were so bothered by it why it was that they weren't adding their own wait to the productivity bandwagon instead of killing time and oxygen bothering someone else.
it all comes back to this stupid thing we all seem to believe exists called normal.  What is it?  Where does it come from?  How do we acquire it?  None of the above questions are questions we can truly answer, which ends up making normal more of a standard judged differently by over 7 billion people, and that doesn't make anything normal about it.  Because normal can be defined as anything that is not weird to someone else, it can be really weird to you.  I know plenty of families that don't eat together at a table at home, and that seems like an insult to other families to believe that sitting together at a table is what it's all about, the perfect kind of normal, where there are two or three children, a husband and wife who seem happy on the surface, perhaps a pet wandering around off in the background.  Beneath it all there may be a failing marriage no one knows about because the adults have learned to mask it well, while the other family type I spoke of who doesn't eat together regularly is doing fine, because the time they spend together, while not plentiful is more meaningful or is of greater quality and is valued more deeply.
IN essence, neither is normal to anyone else but the people who are living the situation, and that kind of normal is subject to change with the slightest action which can trigger a change of events, at which point a new normal comes around.  What is it going to be?  Who knows?  Maybe an aling grandparent or wayward cousin moved in, or there's a birth or even death in the family and everything turns upside down.  situations like this bring out the best in some people, the worst in others, behaviors any side that believes it is qualified in judging the traits of others might find childish.
What do I think of you and your friends?  You're still young; so am I for that matter, all though be it a young that is slightly ahead of you in years, a number that is honestly meaningless when you really sit down and think about it.  What do I have that you don't?  I have an unrestrained freedom to make any number of choices I so wish to make; I can move away and move back to where I am which I've done, can buy myself anything I want, can stay up from whatever hour I want to whatever hour I want and never sleep if I so choose to without being told that I can't by someone else, can choose not to clean a single stinking thing in life and continue with it all in a stink if I want to because there is very little to stop me until it starts affecting someone else, and that is where this little thing called responsibility comes in.  So many people want freedom without responsibility, a life of no rules with no consequence.  Every action produces a reaction however, and while you can live life in denial it honestly doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that you're headed for a mess.  Some of those troubles may clear up in a few days, while others can leave scars into the decades, perhaps centuries depending on who they might have affected that wasn't yourself.
To simplify, be childish; be young.  You'll have plenty of time to be old, certainly more time than you'll ever have as a child, and when it finally comes along you'll wish you were young again, but life doesn't go backwards my friend, and time stops for no man or woman, no matter how much freedom or power they might think they have.

Well I admit I'm not hugely into cartoons with the major exception of Futurama, but I'd much rather watch a cartoon than something like a soap, reality show or sports. To me those just seem like a flat waste of time, and frankly I think the amount of social conflict in soaps is easily as harmful or maybe even more so than the amount of violence in shows aired after 10pm.

I disagree on that last point, the traits we admire are ones which allow us as a society and species to succeed. Unfortunately a lot of people have difficulty separating that concept from the concept of individuality, I don't believe the two are mutually exclusive by any means. In fact individuality strengthens us by providing us with additional viewpoints and skillsets, so long as it doesn't fall into dangerous levels of self interest.

We all have a right to put ourselves first at least some of the time, the problem comes when we do so in a way which is harmful to others.

Well, speaking about him, I really don't know. I gave him advice and he was scolded by his teacher for saying that he wants to touch the teacher's butt! I do! hope its only his fantasies and all. Its also strange that he likes to say things like "I want so and so person to kick me, see how hard he kicks," and that kind of stuff. I really! hope that he will get back to his old self soon. Its really making everyone around him uncomfortable - and embarrased. Embarrased because he sometimes directs his fantasies towards us and we just don't know what to do/say... PLease, my God, please let him get back on track and stop this kind of stuff!

Well, on the subject of weather or not watching anime/cartoons is immature or childish I personally don't think it is. I'm in my mid 30's and to this day I still watch a lot of animated stuff from the 80's like He-Man, She-Ra, Ninja Turtles, Transformers, and Thundercats which I grew up with and still enjoy. I also watch quite a bit of newer animated stuff when my son is around and it is something we can do together. So I don't think watching anime or cartoons is childish in of itself.

As others have tried to point out teenagers are often caught in that state between child and adult, and they are changing rapidly both mentally and physically.  As a result some of them try to be more adult than they are by putting down certain things they themselves think is childish or that would make them seem childish to their peers. Anyone out of their social group, anyone who doesn't conform to what they think is normal, is going to get picked on just because they are different. That does not mean being different is bad. It is a good thing in most cases.

As dark mentioned above I think I am a child at heart, and given a choice I'd rather be 10 than 30 myself. However, since I have no choice in the matter, am in fact in my mid 30's, I don't see that as any reason to abandon various pursuits that some may view as childish, and I'm not just talking about watching cartoons. I have, for example, a really large collection of Star trek action figures. I also have a pretty sizable collection of Star Wars action figures. I have said collections because I am a big fan of both science fiction series and started collecting memorabilia when I was a kid and haven't stopped. As far as I am concerned collecting action figures isn't much different than a stamp collection, coin collection, or a collection of classic model cars. If someone wants to view it as childish its their problem as far as I am concerned because there are lots of grown men and women who have collections of toys ranging from beamy babies, to Barbies, to various action figures. The important thing is to be happy with whatever you like doing and not worry about what the other people think.