Netflix's "Cuties" - The Preteen Sexual Objectification Equivalent of "Funny Games"

[FuckedUp]

So...
We still keeping an eye on Maxwell?

Wasn't the last Scribblenauts game like five years ago?

 

[Neil]

So female genital mutilation and marrying brides as young as 11, who subsequently die of childbirth is "beautiful African culture?" /sneed

Islam isn't even native African culture. Colonizers indoctrinated Northern Africans with those beliefs during the age where every other nation in the world essentially ransacked the continent.

 

[TruthSeekingDaimon]

Then that Culture needs to be eliminated.

So when do we start setting up extermination camps where we gas them?

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

I fucking hate people bringing up this defense, man.

So a film comments on the hyper-sexualization of preadolescent girls...by hyper-sexualizing preadolescent girls. Real classy.

It's amazing how many black women are defending this shit.

 

[Neil]

Anyone who tries to compare the actual harm and suffering children have and can go through due to sex abuse to fictional pictures on a screen are certainly people who deserve to be necked.
It's not your fault you were born with autism but at least try not to be a retarded sperg.

The problem with lolicon shit isn't that drawings are being harmed, the problem lies in what exactly the person who jacks off to it gets off to.
Most of the time, any drawing is a representation of reality. A lolicon is a pedophile because they get off to a representation of a child being molested.
That's the problem. It's a normalized "harmless" way to indulge in sexual fantasies about harming kids.

 

[TruthSeekingDaimon]

the problem lies in what exactly the person who jacks off to it gets off to.

The biggest problem is violence. It lies in how exactly the person murders real people as shown in the drawings.

 

[tigergrinder]

I'm glad that netflix will remove episodes of a comedy show because of black face https://deadline.com/2020/06/netflix-bbc-chris-lilley-smouse-1202955205/ but wont take down literal pedobait.

WHAT?!
But he was the funniest thing out of "down undah"! He was also the only guy (aside from Barry McKenzie) who could actually be a convincing woman! Ja'mie King wouldn't stand for this racism.

 

[5ever a crab]

The problem with lolicon shit isn't that drawings are being harmed, the problem lies in what exactly the person who jacks off to it gets off to.
Most of the time, any drawing is a representation of reality. A lolicon is a pedophile because they get off to a representation of a child being molested.
That's the problem. It's a normalized "harmless" way to indulge in sexual fantasies about harming kids.

I actually believe that (for the most part) people who masturbate to fiction on paper are less likely to act out their fantasies irl. That is if the fanbase generally agrees on this notion or have this rule. For example when I see hardcore BDSM porn that uses needles and shit, it looks awful to me, but if I saw the same grotesque shit on hentai, I don't feel that same empathy.

Spoiler: powerlevel + personal cow tumblr

When I was in highschool I went on tumblr constantly. I fucking forgot almost all of the user names that I personally liked, but one stood out of me in particular. I'll call her A; A-chan was your typical fujoshi who reblogged yaoi and magical girls. As the years go by, she becomes best friends with B; they are around the same age (mid 20s). I notice that A has gotten much bitchier and hostile towards strangers because B was pretty much the same way. And the two were also reblogging yuri along with their yaois. One day A and B have an irl meet up because they were now GFs lesbians and posted a selfie on tumblr, A is a stick while B is a giant cow. I stopped using tumblr at that time and a few years later, I decided to go back to revisit the old blogs for nostalgia (Most of the good blogs have left; it was actually common for users to delete their accounts because they wanted to focus on school/college and not get distracted by social media), so I looked up A and the profile reads: asexual but """"in a relationship""""" with a gf. To be honest, I don't blame her. I would rather shoot myself than have to see an obese woman's vagina fat.
Why I brought this up is to support the "anime isn't your sexuality" argument as well as to speculate that many of the lgbt zoomers now are doing the same shit, thinking they're trannies because they jerked off to trap porn.

 

[Naamaleipuri]

I guess sexualizing real 11 year old girls is A-OKAY, but adult anime tiddies are bad bad baaaaad. I love how backwards everything is nowadays.

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

The only vaguely good part of that trailer is when the mom brings down the Right Hand of Allah upon that child.
She’s the only person with some sense in this clusterfuck.

 

[murdered meat bag]

is this worse than that euro movie about a guy fucking a 10 year old sex bot?

its about the same inni?

 

[Tad Loaf]

The problem with lolicon shit isn't that drawings are being harmed, the problem lies in what exactly the person who jacks off to it gets off to.
Most of the time, any drawing is a representation of reality. A lolicon is a pedophile because they get off to a representation of a child being molested.
That's the problem. It's a normalized "harmless" way to indulge in sexual fantasies about harming kids.

The reality of the fact is though that outside of highly realistic CG renders lolicon stuff doesn't actually look like real children, and the idea that it can only be enjoyed if you enjoy the fact it's a "child" as opposed to simply liking it on a visual level is simply wrong as well.

You're unable to disconnect the fiction from reality, even now you use words like "molested" or that it's about "harming kids" when that isn't what's happening, even within the context of the fiction it's very rare for the loli/shota to be on the abusive end of things.

The "normalization" arguement never had any legs, and never will, it's the worst kind of slippy slope fallacy because we've seen it disproven time and time again.
Did Halloween normalize serial killers? Did Grand Theft Auto normalize car theft and killing hookers? Of course not, because that isn't how it works, they normalize those concepts within fiction and nothing more.

Like people who have tried to get Rock and Roll banned, or violent movies/video games because you BELIEVE it'll indirectly lead to the harm of others, you need some evidence to support that and after several decades said evidence has never came to be, despite how many people are dying for it to be a thing.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

I fucking hate people bringing up this defense, man.


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So a film comments on the hyper-sexualization of preadolescent girls...by hyper-sexualizing preadolescent girls. Real classy.

It's amazing home many black women are defending this shit.

"Pedophilia is bad."

"Yes, but consider; a black person existed."

 

[Pitere pit]

I am not that surprised since we are talking about the platform that host a pedo bait show. Also, is a french movie, they love the young ones, see Blue is the warmest colour, the wife of their president and the Polanski stuff.

I guess sexualizing real 11 year old girls is A-OKAY, but adult anime tiddies are bad bad baaaaad. I love how backwards everything is nowadays.

Current year my dude. Loving big tiddies are haram and mysoginistic. Sexualized 11 years old? They are expressing themselves and you are the pedo for thinking that showing their bodies in a provocative manner is sexual.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Netflix's promotion of their release of Mignonnes is notable for the immediate and intense backlash it caused, immediately tainting the movie's name in the public eye while being criticized as horribly misrepresentative of its contents by those who were more familiar with it. The French film, which won the Directing Jury Award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, follows an 11-year-old African immigrant living in Paris who is drawn into the world of the eponymous clique, a morally-questionable dance troupe of fellow underage girls. Mignonnes is a thoughtful film about what can happen when impressionable young girls are subjected to overly sexual and female-objectifying media. But the marketing for its American release on Netflix (retitled Cuties, a title which already gives off Unfortunate Implications despite being a direct translation) completely missed the point on all of that, as going just by their poster and trailer, you'd swear it was one of those harmful pieces of media itself. The dance troupe's skimpy uniforms are placed front and center on the poster, which, along with the trailer making the movie seem like a Step Up wannabe while showing off the girls suggestively dancing and twerking, led to accusations that the film and Netflix were promoting pedophilianote , with even a petition calling for Netflix to cancel the release, despite the actual movie's message being against the sexualization of underage girls. Even worse, the lead appearing as a promiscuous young black girl made the movie appear to feed into fetishistic ideas about black girls, even though the director is a black woman. Said director, Maïmouna Doucouré, ended up having to delete her Twitter account after she started receiving death threats. Even 4chan boards threatened to permanently ban anyone for posting any images or footage from the movie. Netflix quickly apologized for the misguided marketing once the backlash started (thought were quite noticeably vague about who was actually responsible for it) and started making efforts to try and correct it, replacing the poster on the service with a less offensive image and rewritting the highly questionable description, but the damage seems to have been already done, considering the fact that they still took a complex foreign dramedy dealing with the dangers of internet culture pushing impressionable preadolescents to participate in age-inappropriate behavior, while using sexual imagery to back up its anti-sexualization message and tried to market it to American audiences as a fun, sexy dance romp despite the underaged lead actresses, especially in light of movements to reduce sexual abuse in pop culture circles.

This is why everyone fucking hates you, TV Tropes.

 

[Trig.Point]

It may already have been mentioned but this wasn't a Netflix production. It was funded by French state TV (though France 3 is ostensibly private).

This is a system that's kept Roman Polanski and worse in work for decades. It's also has a post modernist influence that likes attacking 'traditional morals' whenever it can.

I suspect they were really expecting push-back over the films attack on traditional Islamic values, not it's inclusion of pedophilia.... Anyway if ISIS shoot up their headquarters I won't be marching in solidarity.

 

[Coffee Druid]

Update on the youtube dislikes. They have now surpassed 500k (511k to be exact).

 

[Kingcommer]

Update on the youtube dislikes. They have now surpassed 500k (511k to be exact).

How is that video not delete yet

 

[Coffee Druid]

How is that video not delete yet

Honestly I'm rooting for it to have 1,000,000 dislikes because why not. If they keep it up until the movie actually comes out (IF it does) I wonder how many there will be.

I haven't felt like reading the comments but there's almost 70k of them. I'm surprised they didn't disable comments at least.

 

[Parthenos]

How is that video not delete yet

Honestly I'm rooting for it to have 1,000,000 dislikes because why not. If they keep it up until the movie actually comes out (IF it does) I wonder how many there will be.

I haven't felt like reading the comments but there's almost 70k of them. I'm surprised they didn't disable comments at least.

Because Streisand Effect is a bitch and you're better off taking the L instead of making things worse by tamping down on discussion. A rare good decision, let's see what happens from there.