What the fuck happened to the days where just not looking at the things that upset you was a viable option?
Nothing. They never existed. The pendulum just happens to swing every decade or so—it used to be gays and blacks that we tried to remove from existence. Now it’s straight white people. All that anger and insecurity has to go somewhere; what else are the troons gonna do? Take an honest look at themselves? Once you’ve sewn up your genitals like Hannibal Lector, there’s no chance you’ll be able to face yourself again. It has to be your opposers’ faults that you’re miserable.
Sorry for the doomposting. I’ll escort myself back to Beauty Parlor now. At least the fatties are too lazy to DDoS.
Those days did exist, but these days as it is easier to find stuff which upsets you, but importantly it’s also easier to find other people who are upset by the same stuff.
So instead of just not buying the books, magazines, newspapers or staying up late to watch anything deemed unsuitable for all audiences, people can look it up on the web and then get pissed off about it.
That Cuties show was a massive example of this.
Yes Netflix obviously skirted controversy to promote it, but anyone who actually watched it realized:
A: It’s French.
B: the whole point of it was to illustrate how preteen or “tween” girls are encouraged to emulate sexually provocative pop singers.
C: It’s French.
D: also it was addressing the clash of culture in post colonial France, Muslim children interacting with western children and the related issues. Especially in the internet age with children able to access content and media previously only found in pornography and sex shops.
E: the even darker issue of children able to create their own content which would not be considered suitable for them to view by parents and appropriate bodies.
G: it’s French.
Of course, those who wanted to be offended just saw the posters and exploded in indignant rage, rather than bother to attempt to understand it.
As personally I am the kind of poser tosspot who watches French and avant-guarde cinema to pretend I am more cultured than other people, I watched the series and came up with that assessment.
Having been this kind of cinema viewer since childhood, I have noticed that 30 years ago, barely “anyone” knew about the extreme nature of these films, other than hearing about foreign films with loads of fucking in them.
Nowadays, Netflix and other streaming services pump them onto phones.
