As I mentioned in my previous post, I will watch anything related to Halloween. Any movie or TV show with spooky looking characters tends to catch my attention. However, I’ve noticed an ongoing pattern in “spooky” type media that’s marketed toward children and families. It’s almost always about humans and “monsters” (or otherwise spooky characters) learning to coexist. I can think of several examples of this just off the top of my head. Halloweentown High, Hotel Transylvania, Monster High, and even the Disney Junior series, Vampirina, come to mind right away. And the story is almost always the same. The humans are appalled at first, then someone befriends one of the monsters, or one of the monsters ventures out to befriend a human, and we’re meant to come away having learned to be accepting of other’s differences. Cue whatever version of “Kumbaya, My Lord” fits the situation, and fade to end credits. I’m not saying that this isn’t a valuable lesson to instill in...