Because I Said So: Difference between revisions

 

# "Because I said so."

# "[[Just a Kid|Because you're just a kid and you don't know any better.]]"

# "Because you're too young to know what you want."

'''Usual endings include:'''

* Someone commenting that the parent in question seems to have forgotten what it was like to be a child [even though the parent is actively remembering part of what their youth was like].

* The child in question beginning or continuing to think [[Adults Are Useless]].

 

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[Erin Brockovich]]'', the titular character reveals to a mother that a corporation had hidden the fact that her home and water supply is contaminated by a deadly toxic waste. The mother looks outside in horror at her kids in a pool and realizes that they are literally neck deep in dangerously polluted water and runs to get them out. When the kids ask why they had to get out, she yells "Because I said so!" guessing correctly that explaining toxic waste poisoning to children under 10 years old is as counterproductive as it is pointless.

* In the film version of ''[[Matilda (film)|Matilda]]'', our amazingly precocious protagonist is made to do as she's told because "I'm big and you're small, I'm right and you're wrong, I'm smart and you're dumb, and there's nothing you can do about it."

* The cop in ''[[Moonrise Kingdom]]'' tells Sam, "I can't argue with anything you said, and I don't have to, because you're 12."