‘Cancel Netflix’ Backlash Grows Over ‘Cuties’ Film’s Sexualization of Young Girls

[Boiler 45,949]

39 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

Just post on social media that you're cancelling anyways, virtue signaling is what the vast majority of people are doing regardless.

I have a couple of Facebook accounts but do no put anything personal on them so tricky.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

"Cuties" perspective from a family therapist who works with young girls: 

 

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“The newest movie "Cuties" seems to be causing quite the stir due to the graphic sexual scenes that are soft, child pornography. I chose to watch the movie and draw my own conclusion. 

 

*Warning: This post may be a bit much for some*

 

The exploitation of young girls is not the first thing you need to be worried about with the show. As a family therapist who works with young girls, Cuties is far more damaging than the graphic dance scenes. 

 

1) The movie portrays the "cool girls" (AKA Cuties) as the desirable group to be a part of. The main character overhears the group of girls watching pornography and discussing the normalization of providing blow jobs and discussing the importance of ####### size. 

 

2) Next, the girls watch a video of (supposedly) older girls dancing and then flashing the camera in order to get "likes" on social media. 

 

3) As older men (with facial hair) attempt to hit on the girls and ask their age, the girls respond "14" and tell the new girl that this should always be her response. 

 

4) While video chatting with a older male, the girls keep the camera off while asking him if he would like to "touch my tits."

 

5) After teaching herself to grind on the floor and twerk, the main character twerks for two VERY old security guards in order to avoid being arrested. 

 

6) After being caught stealing an older, male's phone (maybe family member), the main character starts to undress in front of him (assuming this will encourage him to give her the phone). He pushes her away and she hides in the restroom. She proceeds to post a photo of her ####### to social media. She does this as a response to another girl pantsing her at school and revealing her "child-like" underwear.

 

For those of you who made it this far into the post without finding the need to vomit, this is called GROOMING. I am much less concerned (although still concerned) about the graphic humping and grinding dance scenes and far more worried about young children watching this show and thinking: 

"This is how I become a woman."

"This is how I get attention."

"This is how I get what I want."

"This is how I behave as a respectable woman." 

 

This show is grooming young girls that it's "cool" and normal to seek out the attention of an older male, it's acceptable to act like a stripper if it makes me part of the "cool group", and to get out of trouble or attain things I want, I should seduce men and give them what they want. 

 

I have never been more concerned over a show. This movie needs to be exposed for what it is.... a TOOL FOR GROOMING YOUNG GIRLS.”

 

If you still find yourselves justifying this film, I’ll guess we shall expect your daughters to be on the sequel! 

 

P.S. over 600 half naked girls auditioned for this film in front of male producers.  May I add that the child’s breasts are also exposed for a mature audience to see. Anyone that defends this is SICK! 

 

#cancelnetflix

 

 

[laylalex 7,300]

We've watched half of Cuties so far, just to see what the furor was about. Honestly, it's kind of boring, but having been an 11 year old girl, it does capture how absolutely cruel they can be to each other. The only naked breast we have seen was what was very clearly a young woman's in a music video. There was one very moving scene that affected us both that had nothing to do with the girls. The main character's mother has found out her husband is coming from Senegal soon with his second wife, and she is pretending on the phone speaking with others that it's a blessing, that she's pleased for them, wishes happiness and love and children for them. She has to put down the phone at one point and cry, absolutely keening with the pain of having to accept this life where her husband can bring another woman in to the marriage and there is nothing she can do. She slaps herself for feeling this way, as if to tell herself: there is nothing you can do, so stop it. The main character is hiding under the bed and hears it all -- it is clear she doesn't want this kind of life for herself, and joining the dance troupe is an overreaction to rejecting her culture's norms. Alex was particularly angry, had to pause the film for a bit for him to rant about what pieces of poo men had to be to treat women like that, to not even care about what their wife's needs and wants in a marriage might be. To think that polygamy was okay. 

 

So I say this having only watched half the film, and we'll probably finish it tomorrow evening. As I said, it has been pretty boring. But that post above is full of incorrect statements. For one, when the girls tell the older boys (they are clearly NOT men, even if at least one has facial hair) they are 14 and the main character says 11, the boys STILL reject the girls thinking they are 14. How do I know? I watched it! When the girls are on video chat and tell the teenage boy to touch their tits, the boy rejects them -- the camera is off because there's a problem with it, not because they are trying to hide their identities (which the post implies). The Cuties are NOT popular, or at least not popular at the halfway point -- they are outsiders, all of them. 

 

I'll follow up after we've seen the other half. I didn't want to comment until I'd seen it, because I like to draw conclusions from actual observation. As I mentioned, I was once an 11 year old girl. I knew girls like these, even in a pre-social media world. They were being sexualized, and it made the rest of us feel grossed out to hear their stories, but we were all still curious, because we were kids. We wanted to know more, even if we never acted on it. But I had the benefit of excellent, age-appropriate sex education at home and school (more so at home) and understood the importance of embracing girlhood, and not hurrying into sex. I was lucky to have a framework like that -- quite clearly these girls in the film don't, nor did the girls I knew at school who acted out and talked about giving blowies to high school boys.

[jeanieCZ 228]

So what's that show about and what's its point?