I thought it was an excellent film, although certain scenes were definitely hard to watch, but really this is today's world and what kids do. I am a mother, not a pedo. I think this film was meant to be a warning to parents.

It came across to me that the point the writer/director was trying to make is that the lead character, Amy, is trying to escape a very patriarchal culture (Islam here, but you could substitute a lot of other extreme patriarchal religious sects), so she latches onto the "modern" vision of female freedom, which is to wear clothes like that, and dance like that.

In the end, where she breaks down on stage, she realizes that she just went from a really conservative culture that demoralizes and oppresses women, sexualizes them and takes away their choices, to the complete opposite side, a totally free-for-all "freedom" that still oppresses and takes advantages of females by sexualizing them, even at a young age. Both sides sexualize females, the extreme conservative and the "total freedom" side.

She ends up attending her father's marriage to his new second/sister wife in jeans and a long sleeve shirt. She did not wear her traditional dress she was supposed to, and she ditched the skimpy dance team outfit. She took the middle of the road by wearing the pants and long sleeve shirt.

My take is that the film was meaning that conservative cultures sexualize females at early ages and so does modern culture - differently, but the same really in the end.

I thought it was a very thought provoking and excellent film about today's culture and supposed feminism (WAP and all that) compared with conservative culture, but then again, I'm a mother and not a pedophile. I could see where some scenes would be loved by a pedo, but let's be honest, if someone is a pedo they are probably focusing their interest on other images/etc. besides this film.

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Anonymous wrote:The impact of Q Anon in our society is truly shocking.

+ 100. They can’t be cured.

+100 UGH the absolute worst. Why are women in particular drawn to Q Anon? Who wants household voting as a female?

I can understand the outrage if you only see the dance, especially if you watched it on right wing media where they made edits to sexualize it. For example, Tucker blurred out parts of the girls to make it seem sexual.

However posters here have provided a summary of the film and its message which is the total opposite. If you still think it’s CP, that says more about you and what you find stimulating.

I only saw the trailer, but that kind of dancing is pretty typical for girls' dance competitions nowadays (and was actually pretty tame compared to some stuff out there). They're having fun and don't see their dancing as sexual.

Waltz and ballet were once considered highly sexual. A young girl doing ballet or gymnastics was "child porn" and inappropriate. Culture changes. In 30 years, the kind of dancing in the film won't be seen as sexual, it'll be seen as an art form.

Anonymous wrote:The impact of Q Anon in our society is truly shocking.

+ 100. They can’t be cured.

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Anonymous wrote:This has been going on for such a long time and now outrage? The only reason it is getting outrage is because QAnon jumped on the whole #SavetheChildren thing, all their followers are following along and now the Republican politicians are getting involved. It's a QAnon/QAnon followers outrage. Where were they years ago when all these other girls were being sexualized.

What is your point here? Do you condone the 11-year old gyration video or not?

Ok, then, so you are okay with 11 year olds rubbing their crotch and stimulating sex while dancing?

Nobody was rubbing their crotch or simulating sex. Obviously you didn’t watch the movie like most of the posters in this thread.

Yes, they were. Just look at link to the reddit clip posted of them dancing. The girls literally rub their hand over their vajayjays in one scene, and in another scene stick both hands between their legs and caress their inner thighs as their butts are pointed toward the audience. It appears YOU are the one who did not watch the movie.

Lies. I watched it from beginning to end and there was no crotch touching.

https://newslinks.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/telegraph-reviewer-defends-netflixs-cuties-against-an-age-terrified-of-child-sexuality-640x381.jpg

A bunch of pedophiles claiming to be feminists on here

Meant to post this link above: https://decider.com/2020/09/09/cuties-netflix-watch-maimouna-doucoure-controversy/?fbclid=IwAR359-9QuCGsJmjQ9vgvXSnOCJf4iTg7keJN9Ew26c4RCtlirxldFhPbfDY

The impact of Q Anon in our society is truly shocking.

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Anonymous wrote:The film is a little over an hour and a half. The clips people are posting are taken out of context and are a small part of the film. There is a whole other story line. The girl's dad is in Senegal bringing back a second wife when the movie starts. The daughter Amy is lonely and upset. She rebels by hanging out with a group of girls who want to grow up fast. They realize older girls who flaunt their sexuality get attention. The last scene is Amy in jeans and a long sleeve shirt jumping rope. Her dress for the African wedding and dance outfit are left on her bed side by side. It was a good movie.

100%. It was a really good movie shot by a female director as a coming of age film. The people trying to twist it as gross (child porn!) seem the most diseased and disgusting. It was well done. Anyone who hasn't watched it should not comment.

/a feminist who is very sensitive towards portrayal of women and girls in media

We don't need to watch any more of this disgusting film. It is disgusting. No amount of mental gymnastics to justify your identity politics will change that.

Anonymous wrote:The film is a little over an hour and a half. The clips people are posting are taken out of context and are a small part of the film. There is a whole other story line. The girl's dad is in Senegal bringing back a second wife when the movie starts. The daughter Amy is lonely and upset. She rebels by hanging out with a group of girls who want to grow up fast. They realize older girls who flaunt their sexuality get attention. The last scene is Amy in jeans and a long sleeve shirt jumping rope. Her dress for the African wedding and dance outfit are left on her bed side by side. It was a good movie.

100%. It was a really good movie shot by a female director as a coming of age film. The people trying to twist it as gross (child porn!) seem the most diseased and disgusting. It was well done. Anyone who hasn't watched it should not comment.

/a feminist who is very sensitive towards portrayal of women and girls in media

The film is a little over an hour and a half. The clips people are posting are taken out of context and are a small part of the film. There is a whole other story line. The girl's dad is in Senegal bringing back a second wife when the movie starts. The daughter Amy is lonely and upset. She rebels by hanging out with a group of girls who want to grow up fast. They realize older girls who flaunt their sexuality get attention. The last scene is Amy in jeans and a long sleeve shirt jumping rope. Her dress for the African wedding and dance outfit are left on her bed side by side. It was a good movie.

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Anonymous wrote:For those who don’t wish to or can’t watch the clip that was posted, let me describe it as non-explicitly as possible. Girls that appear to be 12 or 13 years old are wearing skin tight booty shorts that fully expose the shape of their private parts. They gyrate around and twerk both in the air on the floor. They rub their hands over their private parts multiple times and smack their own butts. They gyrate over their dance partners who also slap each other’s butts to music singing “do you want it”. They turn their backsides to the audience and bend over into a doggy position and run their hands between their crotches and thighs.

Someone explain to me again what part of this has to do with being black?

Haven’t watched the clip, but I’ll play.

I don’t think of what you described as “black.”

I do however think of it as urban/pop culture dancing related to certain musical genres. Have you ever seen a rap video?

You don’t see the same dancing in country music videos.

Both Beyoncé and Brittany were sexualized by their parents and managers. Miley Cyrus seems incapable of keeping her clothes on. Lizzo and Cardi B like to dress skimpily and twerk. Latinas do it, too (JLo, Shakira).

It’s a music and dancing thing. And, black artists tend to be more successful and popular, so it’s heavily connected to them.

I watched it and thought it was a well done film. If you watch the movie, it is definitely not a "black thing". One of those girls everyone here is calling white is Latina and all of the music they are dancing to is reggaeton. The girls watch these reggaeton videos and then mimic the dance moves. They practice for a competition and perform this highly sexualized dance at the end and it is VERY clear the audience members are really uncomfortable with it. The protagonist, Amy, who was at first shy and curious about these bawdier girls and manages to work her way into this "cool" group and teaches herself to dance, has a crisis of confidence on stage and realizes that in rebelling she may have gone too far. The whole film is about female adolescence and the testing of boundaries, coupled with the cultural aspect of all (? there is one white girl where it is unclear) being immigrants trying to figure out where they fit into their new country. The dancing makes sense in context and isn't really titillating unless you are already inclined to be turned on by 11-13 year olds.

This can be said about any demographic doing a highly sexual dance. I wouldn't be turned on by an obese 60 year old man doing the dance, but that doesn't mean it's not a highly inappropriate and sexual dance.

That was "The Full Monty."

I'm one who thinks it's an excellent film, though I have reservations about whether it's okay for teenage actors to perform in this way.

Yes, there is crotch touching. If you're engrossed in the film's story and characters it might not be what gets your attention.

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Anonymous wrote:This has been going on for such a long time and now outrage? The only reason it is getting outrage is because QAnon jumped on the whole #SavetheChildren thing, all their followers are following along and now the Republican politicians are getting involved. It's a QAnon/QAnon followers outrage. Where were they years ago when all these other girls were being sexualized.

What is your point here? Do you condone the 11-year old gyration video or not?

Ok, then, so you are okay with 11 year olds rubbing their crotch and stimulating sex while dancing?

Nobody was rubbing their crotch or simulating sex. Obviously you didn’t watch the movie like most of the posters in this thread.

Yes, they were. Just look at link to the reddit clip posted of them dancing. The girls literally rub their hand over their vajayjays in one scene, and in another scene stick both hands between their legs and caress their inner thighs as their butts are pointed toward the audience. It appears YOU are the one who did not watch the movie.

Lies. I watched it from beginning to end and there was no crotch touching.