Change.org Petition to cancel 'Cuties' on Netflix

The film actively critiques the very thing pearl-clutchers were mad about—the sexualization of children—but Doucouré received death threats. Netflix, the movie’s distributor, issued an apology.


Controversy aside, “Cuties” is a difficult and challenging film, pushing the idea of “depiction does not equal endorsement” to its limit. It will not surprise me to read responses still accusing the movie of what it condemns. However, Doucouré uses these uncomfortable images to provoke a serious conversation about the sexualization of girls—especially regarding girls of color, the policing of a girl’s sexuality, double standards, the effect of social media on kids, and how children learn these behaviors. To do this, the director shows what it looks like for young girls to emulate what they see in music videos and grown-up dance routines. A few times in the film, we see the confused or even disgusted faces of adults watching the younger generation gyrate and twerk, biting their lips or their nail in a suggestive way. It’s likely that these girls don’t fully understand what those gestures mean, but they see it in pop culture and they imitate it, like several other generations of girls before them. Doucouré also explores some of the emotional tangles that come with wanting to fit in and to be taken seriously, as well as the repercussions that come with acting youthfully impulsive. Many of these experiences were rooted in the director’s own childhood or in the stories of girls she interviewed when working on the “Cuties” script.

Typical right wing Nazi trying to police other people's sexuality and sexual preferences.

You have a problem with Nazis

That's how I can tell that you are a white supremacist and fascist. Who else would downplay the connection between Trump and fascism (Nazism)?

This film was made with the intent of being softcore child pornography. It's absolutely disgusting. The only people defending this are the kinds who would watch it to pleasure them self.

This is from Roger Ebert

thebobeternal wrote:

That's how I can tell that you are a white supremacist and fascist. Who else would downplay the connection between Trump and fascism (Nazism)?

Do you know who the Nazis were?

The Nazis built actual death camps. They stuffed men women and children into train cars and brought them to camps where they were worked to death, and put to death in gas chambers. The Nazis did medical experiments on human beings and killed children in barbaric ways.

Trump tried build a silly wall, put kids in wire pens temporarily... kids who received medical care and were released, and kept out Muslim asylum seekers.

No, I don't see a connection. And I think it is obscene that you are trying to make one. You are making a joke out of the Holocaust.