‘#CancelNetflix’: Streaming Service Faces New Calls For Boycott After ‘Cuties’ Scene Sexualizing Children Goes Viral
https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/cancelnetflix-streaming-service-faces-new-calls-for-boycott-after-cuties-scene-sexualizing-children-goes-viral/
Just take a look at the video of "Cuties", all 11 year old girls.
Disgusting! Not the girls, their dirtbag PIMPS, Netflix.
This is one CANCEL movement I can appreciate
I used to think the same thing of "Toddlers and Tiaras", a show where preschool-aged girls paraded their looks in beauty pageants to down-right cringeworthy degrees. I only checked out the show due to the immense popularity of Honey Boo-Boo, who was around maybe six years old at the time, and became a cultural phenomenon.
I don't know if Netflix is to blame so much as the producers of the show. And what of their parents? Keep in mind I haven't seen this show or even heard of it till now, so I'm just basing my reply on your post.
@vivify saidI believe the lion's share of responsibility/blame has to lie with the parents of these kids. They need to get their own lives and stop living vicariously through their children.
I used to think the same thing of "Toddlers and Tiaras", a show where preschool-aged girls paraded their looks in beauty pageants to down-right cringeworthy degrees. I only checked out the show due to the immense popularity of Honey Boo-Boo, who was around maybe six years old at the time, and became a cultural phenomenon.
I don't know if Netflix is to blame so much as the ...[text shortened]... ind I haven't seen this show or even heard of it till now, so I'm just basing my reply on your post.
@earl-of-trumps saidEverybody contributing in this production should feel regrets.
The parents #1, absolutely. But we can't CANCEL the parents, as much as I would like to.
Where's the firestop here? NETFLIX is as bad as it gets... and they make money doing this???
I guess the parents do, too. Crimminy.
@earl-of-trumps saidWe might have common ground after all.
Just take a look at the video of "Cuties", all 11 year old girls.
Disgusting! Not the girls, their dirtbag PIMPS, Netflix.
This is one CANCEL movement I can appreciate
You might consider that stuff like this is the logical product of the child beauty pageant scene.
Lots of people to "blame" including clothing designers and retailers and not least parents.
@vivify saidIt's not a show, but a critically acclaimed French film. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuties
I used to think the same thing of "Toddlers and Tiaras", a show where preschool-aged girls paraded their looks in beauty pageants to down-right cringeworthy degrees. I only checked out the show due to the immense popularity of Honey Boo-Boo, who was around maybe six years old at the time, and became a cultural phenomenon.
I don't know if Netflix is to blame so much as the ...[text shortened]... ind I haven't seen this show or even heard of it till now, so I'm just basing my reply on your post.
Ironically, a movie "praised for its critique of the hyper sexualization of young girls - and the consequences of that - as they rush to become adults in the age of social media" (https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/09/07/cuties-calls-out-the-hypersexualization-of-young-girls-and-gets-criticized) is being attacked because a bunch of right wing trolls don't understand what it is about (and obviously would never watch it anyway).
@earl-of-trumps saidYou can cancel your Netflix subscription if you like. But they had no part in the making of the film and the film doesn't seem objectionable anyway. Probably not something I'd be interested in watching, but the Director got the Best Director award at Sundance last year for it and it has gotten generally positive reviews.
The parents #1, absolutely. But we can't CANCEL the parents, as much as I would like to.
Where's the firestop here? NETFLIX is as bad as it gets... and they make money doing this???
I guess the parents do, too. Crimminy.
EDIT: There's a trailer here: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3378298393?ref_=nm_rvd_vi_1
A brief interview with the writer and Director Maïmouna Doucouré is here: https://www.cineuropa.org/en/interview/390968
An excerpt:
This is most of all an uncompromising portrait of an 11-year-old girl plunged in a world that imposes a series of dictates on her. It was very important not to judge these girls, but most of all to understand them, to listen to them, to give them a voice, to take into account the complexity of what they’re living through in society, and all of that in parallel with their childhood which is always there, their imaginary, their innocence.
You denounce the impact of social media at that age.
During my research, I saw that all these young girls I’d met were very exposed on social media. And with new social codes, the ways of presenting yourself change. I saw that some very young girls were followed by 400,000 people on social media and I tried to understand why. There were no particular reasons, besides the fact that they had posted sexy or at least revealing pictures: that is what had brought them this “fame.” Today, the sexier and the more objectified a woman is, the more value she has in the eyes of social media. And when you’re 11, you don’t really understand all these mechanisms, but you tend to mimic, to do the same thing as others in order to get a similar result. I think it is urgent that we talk about it, that a debate be had on the subject."
@no1marauder
So Director Maïmouna Doucouré says I think it is urgent that we talk about it,
that a debate be had on the subject.
Ya. After he made a ton of $$$$. No, Monsieur Doucouré, the time to debate it
is before the filming, and the debate should take about two seconds, Just say NO.
@earl-of-trumps saidNot a "he". Doubt she made a lot of money from this, her first film.
@no1marauder
So Director Maïmouna Doucouré says I think it is urgent that we talk about it,
that a debate be had on the subject.
Ya. After he made a ton of $$$$. No, Monsieur Doucouré, the time to debate it
is before the filming, and the debate should take about two seconds, Just say NO.
Films often have things in them that are considered morally reprehensible by most people. That does not imply support of those things.
Censoring the subject matter of this film won't make it go away.
@mott-the-hoople saidDon't subscribe then.
just so you know...
https://www.theblaze.com/conservative-review/netflix-rewards-loyal-democrats
@suzianne saidTo you and the other non-right wingers who fell for Earl's simplistic OP which apparently grossly mischaracterizes the film, I suggest this article from someone who actually watched it:
I believe the lion's share of responsibility/blame has to lie with the parents of these kids. They need to get their own lives and stop living vicariously through their children.
"Not being a politics reporter, I am only vaguely aware of the alt-right’s growing interest in Hollywood and pedophilia. But being a film reporter, I can tell you that I have seen Cuties, a French film coming to Netflix on September 9, which has been accused of “child porn” for its depiction of preteen girls in skimpy outfits in a recently released poster and trailer. As one of the few people who has actually seen the film, I can tell you that Cuties in no way, shape, or form advocates for the hyper-sexualization of young girls. Quite the opposite, in fact.
The Cuties controversy is the latest in a line of recent anti-pedophilia campaigns that have stemmed from the corners of the internet where extreme conspiracy theorists—including QAnon and Pizzagate believers—like to hang out. Earlier this month, far-right conspiracy theorists got a Trolls doll pulled from stores after a viral Facebook video claimed the doll was connected to sex trafficking. Around that same time, a fact-free “documentary” called Out of the Shadows went viral on YouTube, which claimed Satan-worshipping Hollywood executives are spreading messages of pedophilia through movies like Zoolander and coded messages like the word “television.” As Mel Magazine recently reported, the “Save the Children” rallying cry has been co-opted by people who seem more interested in outlandish stories about shadowy factions than preventing real-life sex trafficking. This week, that focus is on Cuties.
But if you’d seen the film, you’d know that French-Senegalese filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré illustrates, very clearly, that the four girls who enter a dance contest together are far too young to be wearing skimpy outfits and performing suggestive dance moves. That’s kind of the whole thesis of the movie—that girls who barely understand the concept of sex are pressured by society to present themselves as “sexy,” and that’s very much a bad thing."
https://decider.com/2020/08/20/cuties-netflix-controversy-summary-review/