Misinformation

I get so annoyed when I see things like this.

Greenhouse is a fast game where you have to make sure the bugs don't kill the flowers. You operate a Fumigator up and down the ladder spraying the bugs as they emerge. On the top screen Inchworms try to eat the flowers and on the lower screen spiders attack the flowers.

Greenhouse Game

Spiders attack the flowers? How backwards is that? So kids that play this game get reinforced on the thought that spiders are ugly evil creatures to be feared and destroyed?

And nothing could be farther from the truth. Spiders are a gardener's friend. If your garden has no spiders, it is a mighty sterile place indeed.

Spiders attack the flowers. A better game would allow you to deploy an army of spiders, ladybugs, and praying manitses to rally to the aid of the beleaguered flowers!

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[Cop Car]

Ah--no one who has ever seen the wonderful web of a garden spider, with her standing sentinel, could believe that spiders are ugly. But--"Fumigator". How ugly is that!