Frank Miller: God you guys make me sick. What is this, a fucking feel good convention?
Shannon Bell: Listen, we have a long journey ahead of us. Its important we all get along. Now, you're hurting people's feelings. Your gunna have to find a more constructive way to express your anger.
Miller: Okay. Well, fuck you! How's that for constructive?
Bell: That's great, now go to time out, Mister.
Shannon Bell: Listen, we have a long journey ahead of us. Its important we all get along. Now, you're hurting people's feelings. Your gunna have to find a more constructive way to express your anger.
Miller: Okay. Well, fuck you! How's that for constructive?
Bell: That's great, now go to time out, Mister.
I’ve long been convinced that dark stuff sometimes lurks just behind those huge, brittle smiles and voices that swoop into unnaturally high registers in front of little children. Even apart from the treacly style in which it’s often delivered, the compulsive tendency to praise kids when they do something helpful may reflect the pessimistic assumption that the action was a fluke: Children must be marinated in “Good job!”s whenever they happen to do something nice; otherwise they’d never act that way again. The more compulsive (and squeaky) the use of positive reinforcement, the bleaker the underlying view of children – or maybe of our species.
— Alfie Kohn, "Bad Signs"
