A tangent about Cuties, but felt like airing my thoughts on this somewhere.
The outrage over Cuties is some of the weirdest situations of political/cultural toxoplasma I've seen.
The movie has nothing that's considered abnormal to what pre-teens and teens are exposed and engage in modern western culture. Girls are exposed to the dances/ect that sexualize them everywhere from social media platforms (tiktok, ect) and in person (regular middle school/high school stuff). The dances in cuties are very meh in by those measurements.
The movie tries to take a look at this, "norm," and displays something that's somewhat normal in a movie format. It's especially weird that the movie got it's backlash from conservatives b/c the message is arguably somewhat conservative.
The story is a girl coming from a extremely conservative background embracing the supposedly pro-women modern liberal western culture. By showing this the character and the viewers question if modern western cultural attitudes to women and their sexualization is actually better than the treatment of women in conservative cultures.
SPOILERS: It ends with the character embracing some sort of middle path that leaves you asking if that's even possible.
Like if you believe in the backlash against Cuties and the sexualization of the kids in modern society, that backlash should be more directed a backlash against places like tiktok/ect that encourage pre-teens/teens to copy/perform sexualized dances for money/street cred.
I don't think people object to the message of the film, but rather the content. It's not that people think the plot contains anti-female themes, but that the movie shows sexualized images of children.
It's a movie rated "mature" featuring sexualized depictions of 11 year old girls. 11 year olds (the only even remotely "appropriate" audience for the film) can't legally watch it. It's a film filmed by pedophiles for pedophiles, and its ratings reflect that. Fun fact: 4chan, which lets you post swastikas, porn, and gore all day long _censors_ Cuties screenshots, since it does not allow child porn.
A tangent about Cuties, but felt like airing my thoughts on this somewhere.
The outrage over Cuties is some of the weirdest situations of political/cultural toxoplasma I've seen.
The movie has nothing that's considered abnormal to what pre-teens and teens are exposed and engage in modern western culture. Girls are exposed to the dances/ect that sexualize them everywhere from social media platforms (tiktok, ect) and in person (regular middle school/high school stuff). The dances in cuties are very meh in by those measurements.
The movie tries to take a look at this, "norm," and displays something that's somewhat normal in a movie format. It's especially weird that the movie got it's backlash from conservatives b/c the message is arguably somewhat conservative.
The story is a girl coming from a extremely conservative background embracing the supposedly pro-women modern liberal western culture. By showing this the character and the viewers question if modern western cultural attitudes to women and their sexualization is actually better than the treatment of women in conservative cultures.
SPOILERS: It ends with the character embracing some sort of middle path that leaves you asking if that's even possible.
Like if you believe in the backlash against Cuties and the sexualization of the kids in modern society, that backlash should be more directed a backlash against places like tiktok/ect that encourage pre-teens/teens to copy/perform sexualized dances for money/street cred.
I don't think people object to the message of the film, but rather the content. It's not that people think the plot contains anti-female themes, but that the movie shows sexualized images of children.
It's a movie rated "mature" featuring sexualized depictions of 11 year old girls. 11 year olds (the only even remotely "appropriate" audience for the film) can't legally watch it. It's a film filmed by pedophiles for pedophiles, and its ratings reflect that. Fun fact: 4chan, which lets you post swastikas, porn, and gore all day long _censors_ Cuties screenshots, since it does not allow child porn.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and sexually exploits children like a duck...