*wakes up to Cuties stuff*
Isn't the whole film supposed to be a critique on the hyper sexualization of young girls to begin with?
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/06/909753465/cuties-calls-out-the-hypersexualization-of-young-girls-and-gets-criticized
I'll watch it.
My feeling is that it's more a coming of age film of a girl torn between a conservative culture at home and a desire to be herself among her peers at school. The whole twerking / sexualisation thing is more incidental or a secondary theme (like in the trailer they have that bit about Instagram validation). But I haven't seen the movie so...
11 years old is very early teenage years but it's not exactly mind-blowing that kids will start discovering, mostly confusedly or innocently, their bodies and sex (at least as a vague concept) around that age. I was repeating things and making rash sex jokes (that I didn't really truly understand, of course) earlier than that.
Like that dance routine stufte posted... Yeah it's twerking. There's sexual tones by nature. But I honestly am baffled at the perception it's meant to arouse ? Or that the kids depicted are "sexually earnest and forward" ?
"Pedos will get off to this
" well yeah, they project and twist on the most innocent, innocuous things. Saying it would be off limit to speak of childhood in those terms to satisfy some impossible standard of safe proofing from a minority of perverts sounds like utter madness to me.
I'm perfectly amenable to any specific criticism from the film specifically but honestly from my filthy Pepe le Pew tower it all reads like insane moral panic.
