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[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

The movie, about an 11-year-old who rebels against her family and joins a “free-spirited dance crew,” i.e., twerking, is accused in the online campaign of sexualizing young girls “for the viewing pleasure of pedophiles.”

I don’t call it “canceling” to point out that young girls do not need any more “role models” in a movie that sexualizes 11-year-old girls.

The French version of the movie poster, reflected appropriately dressed little girls and the American, Netflix version, reflected sexualized, half-dressed little girls.

Shame on Netflix. Our culture sexualizes little girls.

[–]LasagnaRossa 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why couldn’t they use this for marketing instead? Not salacious enough for the US?

[–]worried19[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'm not against calling out Netflix. It's the fact that they're attacking this director and attempting to cancel her film that bothers me. France obviously had appropriate marketing for it.

Netflix is the one that fucked up here, but the director is the one being punished. I'm sure the Netflix executives are male, too. They get off scot free, and the woman who made the movie has to deal with the repercussions of it being attacked. Same old story.

[–]MezozoicGaygay male 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Americans most likely does not know that it was Netflix idea, so they think it is author did so.

And now, after cancel train is started - it is not possible to people to stop, because cancel culture works on random lurking people and "allies", and not on actual activists. So even if people who started it realized they are wrong and appologized - 90% of attackers does not care, as all they want is someone at gunpoint to attack, and that's it.

[–]worried19[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Probably so. It looks like Netflix's lawyers must have gotten involved because the massive brigading on the Internet movie database stopped. All the negative reviews were deleted.

[–]MezozoicGaygay male 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Seems they think that good way to remove the problem is - censoring people who are pointing at the problem. "If no one speak about it, it does not exist".