I see the usual phalanx of trendy lefties has jumped to defence of the Netflix movie Cuties. I’ve watched trailers and read reviews, and I don’t doubt what they say is not entirely wrong. I can see the movie might well “comment” on the sexulisation of chlidren, and all sorts of social issues, the stark fact remains that the film indulges in and helps normalise the sexualisation of children.
Let’s not fall for the same tired old lines “Oh, you’re just not sophisticated enough to undertsand the subtlety/irony/(insert PoMo BS here) of the film”. I get that the film may well, as is being claimed, effectively criticise the sexualisation of children (although I have my doubts, much of what I’ve read suggests it’s more about the girls ‘taking control’ of their own sexuality) the fact remains it shows large amounts of that very sexualisation. If you make a film about child soldiers in Africa you can show the death and horror without (hopefully) anyone, least of all the young actors, being hurt at all. When you make a film “criticising” the sexualisation of children that shows long sequences of that very sexualisation you’ve effectively made a Pedarastic soft porn movie.
“Sophisticated” commentary and freedom of expression nothwithstanding, in a world where California is effectively saying it’s ok for a 24 year old man to have sex with a 14 year old boy and where people like Polanski are still defended and celebrated I simply don’t feel comfortable giving money to a company that indulges in this stuff. You don’t need to sign up to the concept of a grand pedrastic conspiracy to be very worried about the creeping normalisation of pederacy.
I have cancelled my Netflix subscription and will be encouraging others to do the same. Under the “why did you…?” section I ticked Other and simply wrote in Cuties.
11 replies on “It’s not Cute, and it’s not clever”
A judge once said words to the effect of “I may not have a legal definition for pornography but I know it when I see it!”
I haven’t seen Cuties and have no intention to watch it. I’ve heard enough about it that I know it’s not something I’m interested in at all. I like Space Operas, Westerns and Spy Movies. “Cuties” doesn’t even cast at thin shadow for me, let alone eclipse something else I’ve much more interest in.
Having said that, I’m asking myself from what I know about this controversial movie — “If a genuine pedophile watches this and it turns his crank, isn’t that a definition of child pornography?” I mean, you can label anything at all as “art” and use that as an excuse to subject the public to it, but the proof is in the pudding, as it were. If a movie like this gets a lot of eyeball time from deviants that like to abuse little boys and girls, I’d say that’s proof enough that it’s child pornography in the guise of art.
Still, I’m not going to cancel any subscriptions or boycott anyone in outrage, it does no good whatsoever to do those things. Companies like NetFlix don’t care, if every single conservative in America cancelled their subscriptions NetFlix would simply sink deeper into depravity providing content to the depraved and raking in the cash. Heck, if nothing else just the publicity from Cuties got them enough pedophile subscriptions to make up for the people who cancel their subscriptions in disgust at the movie.
It’s a free country (more or less, less as leftism has it’s way) and you can do on your own part as you see fit. I’m not criticizing anyone for that. I can’t, it would be hypocritical of me to do so. Years ago when the Lutheran Church, which I was baptized and raised in, decided to begin ordaining openly gay ministers, I left that church forever. I don’t have any problem with gay people, I have a problem with a Church not following the tenets that make it a Church. So I left.
My leaving, and the exodus of many, many congregations well beyond and apart from me, had zero effect on the doctrine of the Lutheran Church. If anything it removed inconvenient impediments to greater theological error because the right thinking people were no longer there to object. That same Synod of that same Denomination is still alive, well and thriving today. It’s no longer a church, it’s a social club that calls itself a church, but I suspected that condition had existed long before my particular straw broke the back of my personal camel.
If this straw breaks the back of your camel, so be it. If you want to cancel your subscription to NetFlix, I support you but I won’t be joining you. You’re doing it for you and that’s fine, I support you doing it for you. You have to make your own choices and draw your own lines just like I did with my church. The fact that I’m not going to join you in cancelling my subscription makes me no worse than you nor you any better than me. It’s your own choice, you’ve made it, Godspeed to you.
I’m also not going to be encouraging anyone to either cancel or keep their subscription to NetFlix. Nor will I judge them positively or negatively for their choice in entertainment subscriptions. It’s their choice, just like it was your choice. That’s the wonderful thing about individual liberty … Choices.
I won’t watch Cuties not only because of lack of interest but because I don’t need to see that kind of thing. I know what goes on in the dark places of men’s souls and have had a direct hand in bringing more than a couple to justice for acting on that darkness. I don’t need to watch a puppy murdered to be reminded I don’t like to see puppies killed. In my world young girls are all like my granddaughters – they’re for hugging and spoiling rotten, for admiring and encouraging and occasionally for putting the pinch on Grampa for a saw buck or two. Woe unto he who so much as harms a hair on a little girl’s head …
The kind of people who would view such things for entertainment, and to “enlighten themselves in a social and moral manner” are beneath my contempt. They probably feel the same way about people like me who grew up with John Wayne and his contemporaries as role models and heroes.
There is a why reason decent men avert their eyes when confronted with inappropriate sexuality as portrayed in Cuties. Men are faced with two challenges: One – young girls testing the effects of their budding womanhood on adult males, and two – cultural pressure to make adult women appear as young as possible. Normal stuff, but certainly not fair. It looks like men’s real salvation lies in an appreciation of boobs – as it always has been.
Every now and then I consider cancelling these services and then I decide that it’s better to ignore the awful things and watch the things that aren’t. If people watch good stuff they’ll provide more of it.
How many years did I pay for basic cable TV (never subscribed to premium channels) and watch about three channels?
Netflix has good films and series too. Longmire, Medal of Honor, several Israeli shows about killing terrorists (including Spy), Seal Team Six, just watched Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; currently watching Borgias, Turn, etc. I try to remember to thumbs-down the bad stuff, but usually I just ignore it. They have quite a lot of international shows.
It would be harder to give up Amazon Prime because it’s so convenient. I’m more conscious of looking for things Not Made in China, but it’s hard for me to do much shopping elsewhere right now. I don’t bother with Prime music and ebooks but do watch video almost every day. I do NOT have any of the spy things like Alexa.
I have a Roku and one channel I’ve subscribed to for years is Acorn, because I’m an Anglophile. Perhaps one of these days I’ll cancel Netflix and subscribe instead to BritBox.
I’ve recently decided to cancel my Hulu subscription because I literally haven’t watched anything on it for months, possibly years, in part because I cannot handle the commercials, and in part because ipso facto I don’t need it. But I haven’t gotten around to it yet. (Intend to direct the cost of the subscription instead to a Patreon subscription to support a particular Youtube channel dedicated to classical music.)
Certainly with you on Alexa and all her creepy friends. The idea of something sitting there listening to everything you say just makes my skin crawl.
Avoiding Made in China is very hard, practially a job in and of itself.
I usually don’t go in for cancelling myself but on this occasion the film in question really did get my hackles up. Not so much from partisan politics, the reaction to this is truely across the board, but from the fact that the movie they’ve made really is effectively pedrast porn. I will miss Netflix.
I’ve been busy commenting and sharing to help the general pressure. Netflix’s share price has tanked over this (the whole imboglio, not my tiny efforts) and there may be an opportunity to get across to the MSM complex just how out of touch they are with the great mass of folk who pay them money.
My only other cancelation was Ancestry.com. They ran a series of nakedly anti-Brexit and “you’re not as British as you think” TV ads in the UK and many folk were angry (people who are interested in their ancestry being patriotic? Whoda thunk it?). I unsubscribed, letting them know exactly why, their facebook page was full of angry ex-subscribers. Their adds are now actually about ancestry and they even did a promotion with the Great Maven Klavan! It can be done.
Feel free to sign if you feel inclined.
http://chng.it/dZqPgf64xP
Great idea. Thanks for the tip.
I also cancelled my membership upon receiving an email notification of “a new movie I might like”. When I learned what the movie was about I pulled the plug. I’d been considering cancelling for at least 2 years but kept thinking that maybe the one or 2 features I watched every couple of months was worth the $8.95 subscription cost. More importantly, the revulsion bordering on contempt I felt every time I scrolled through the offerings, much of it SJW hard left propaganda, made me disgusted and demoralized. Too many movies featuring women in roles that should be for men; constant mixed race couples and homosexual characters; perversity and filth of all types meant to normalize behaviors that undermine traditional American mores and Christianity. I’m far from a prude, but I was sick of it, and Cuties sent me over the cliff. Should have done it much much sooner.
The reason I gave for cancelling was pretty much what I stated above. I haven’t missed it a bit. I also have Amazon Prime, and probably average watching only 4 or 5 movies a year. I also cancelled my subscription to Shudder, a subsidiary of Netflix, right after they virtue signaled hard about the BLM/G.Floyd event. Target and Bombas will no longer get my business for the same reason. I may cancel Amazon too if we ever get to the point of life returning to normal.
I’m currently watching The Chosen. https://studios.vidangel.com/the-chosen. It’s free, but donations are accepted. Very well done.From the website: The Chosen is the first-ever-multi-season TV show about the life of Jesus. Created outside of the Hollywood system, The Chosen allows us to see Him through the eyes of those who knew him. No matter where you are at in your journey with Jesus Christ, this TV show is for you.
I buy stuff now and then from Amazon.
Can you say a few words why you might cancel Amazon. Thanks.
The main reason I would like to cancel Amazon, and my Prime membership is because it’s a tech giant owned by Jeff Bezos, a raging leftist. He hates America, hard as that is to believe for us who feel a measure of gratitude for the benefits our country offers. He’s benefited by orders of magnitude. He’s a surveillance capitalist and uses stealth and technology for social engineering purposes. Naturally, to continue building his wealth and power. His aim is to bring China’s social credit system here, and he has the technology, the money and the help of like-minded leftists to do it. I don’t want to support any of that.
Thanks for the info.
Let me add, as the father of a daughter who was a competitive dancer for 10 years, starting at age 8; some insight. Sorry for the length.
Her first year of competition, several parents were called into the studio to discuss costumes for the dances. There were two fathers present: myself and one other. The costume for one dance consisted of a colorful, billowy top and what can only be described as booty shorts. Steve and I looked at each other with the same thought, and I shook my head. We had brief sidebar with the mom’s and then a further brief side bar with the choreographers. The sum of those discussions was “Those will not be the bottoms for this costume, these girls are 8 & 9” One of the choreographers was clearly taken aback by my directness, so I was more so. I said I am not paying for that costume, so get the short leggings instead. All of the mom’s backed me.
Later that year we went to our first competition. When the high school girls were doing there thing, I leaned over to another dad next to me and said, well at least if they don’t have the grades for college they will have stripping to fall back on.
There really was no other way to describe the moves. BTW – I am no prude. I grew up around plenty of theatre people. It just made my wife and I very aware that whatever morals we wanted for our daughter needs to be taught in the home first and in church; school and dance studio were not going to do it and actually needed to be counter acted.
7 years ago people were aghast at 21 year old Miley Cyrus twerking on 40 yr old (?) Robin Thicke. Now we say 11 year olds doing the same are empowering themselves.
Yea, we have lost our minds. Our souls will go as well if we are not careful.