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"Understand it"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.
Understand it? Cuties? Fucking pedo shit with pre pubescent girls gyrating with the camera zoomed in on their crotch?
What exactly did you watch this shit to "understand" bro?
Fuck off with that shit.
You're sounding pretty sus at the minute homie.
I'd keep that sort of fucking shit to yourself tbh.
Watching Cuties because "me sophisticated and understand muh avante garde"

Seriously fuck right off with that shit.
You know who you sound like atm?
Max Karson.
Not a good look bro.
No offense.
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