I'm such a girl about spiders, wife has to take care of them. She fusses when I mention the nightmare of them carrying me off. *shivers* Bees, wasps on the other hand I can get with lidded cups and take them outside for release.
This kind of links back to my not enjoying the horror genre of movies now. As a child of the 70's my mom let me watch nearly anything and everything. Recall in fact going to see the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre (TCM) at a drive in. Mom and stepdad went and so I did too. They also saw one of if not the first Friday The 13th (FT1) movies at drive in.
I watched the televised premiere of The Shining, on a school night even. Mom said I had to learn about cold weather and how to live through it. Watched something about a wax museum too. Used to go across the street in New Market to a theater that had double feature matinees. They ran The Blob, Frankenstein, Dracula, Creature from Black Lagoon (all the old classics with Lugosi, Karloff).
There were horror flicks about bees, spiders, ants back then too. Want to bet my mom stopped me watching them? Ha! No, put me right to watching them. Damn acid queens as mothers are great, I tell ya. Saw all the Nightmare on Elm, all the TCM except the silly 3d one, Jaws, all of them save for 3d, Hellraiser all of em.
But no, I don't like horror movies. Grew up in one and watching all the old standards. Why would I like the new stuff? I even watched the Hitchcock. Twilight Zone, Outer Limits were popular shows for us too. Of course the 70's version of Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew but they were tame by far.
I also saw Song of the South in a drive in. Still not a white supremacist, or racist. Will admit I may have a slight white privilige bias but I do try setting that aside. To me people are people regardless of flags, colors, sex they enjoy, gender, ability. We're all just human beings. I like death don't give a rat's ass about the "details", you're a person, that's all. Though I can understand how some might get off ended over Song of the South.
Also saw Puff the Magic Dragon, Pete the Dragon too. Grew up seeing a lot of different stuff. Even got put to looking at rough video of 'Nam correspondent's work. Talk about real horror stories. I don't necessarily care too much for Brad Pitt but can say probably my two favorite movies are Legends of the Fall & Meet Joe Black.
Ha! New Punk Metal band name: Acid Queen Mothers or shortened to AQM *chuckles*