I dunno. Maybe this is just a parody of the marketing? Or is this actually the marketing? maybe it's a misrepresentation of the film? or maybe it's an accurate representation of the film? Who knows?!
Just the relentless objectification of women and girls aimed at destroying feminism and getting women and girls to cooperate in the project because they are offered nothing else.
I wonder about that poster image. Could it be fake? A review from Sundance paints the picture in a more progressive light. It's written & directed by a Senegalese woman, for one thing:
"The girls are preparing to enter a dance contest, and an appearance by their great rivals (the Sweety-Swaggs) lays out what’s the come: The Swaggs are older, more developed, more sexualized, and their moves reflect that. The Cuties certainly don’t understand that even the elder Swaggs are at the mercy of a hyper-sexualized culture and its demands, and that there’s something deeply wrong with a teenager taking her top off in the middle of a dance video. Soon enough, the Cuties are unfurling their own new routine led by Amy, who remains tuned in to what’s happening around her but not what it means.
The foursome does realize that there is something here beyond their reach — new best pal Angelica balks at a move that involves lasciviously sucking on her fingers and they all seem to think their butt-bumping is silly more than anything. The audience must endure their sexualization as increasingly horrified spectators. The girls vacillate between being hyper-interested in the opposite sex (the girls push Amy to videotape a cute boy in the bathroom) and being freaked out by its actual mechanics, as in a scene in which they discover a used condom. A group of initially interested teenage boys soon recoil in disgust (and fear?) when they realize how young the Cuties are. “They’re little girls,” one of them scoffs, as the tweens jostle and preen, desperate to prove otherwise."
Oh shit! Nope, the poster's real. I see it on my Netflix. I still don't know whether the movie itself is exploitative or not (having not seen it) but Netflix's marketing of it is definitely gross.
Is this a particularly American thing? Those toddler beauty pageants are pretty 🤮 inducing and also low-level sexualised. It’s getting more out & proud now. Wtf's happening to the world?
You are my source for outrages like these. Oh the damage computers and tech have wrought! The good and the bad, and the bad is often really, really bad, come with every advance so it seems we are creating more and more problems needing solutions. You are right to mention Edward Bernays, double nephew of Sigmund Freud. It was he that got American women smoking among other nefarious projects. He and everything else from public relations and advertising, obviously forms of propaganda (supporting wars and regime change, among the projects taken on), are reasons to despise the industry.
I dunno. Maybe this is just a parody of the marketing? Or is this actually the marketing? maybe it's a misrepresentation of the film? or maybe it's an accurate representation of the film? Who knows?!
Well, I guess my old timey ways don't stand to the sexual exploitation of children!
Just the relentless objectification of women and girls aimed at destroying feminism and getting women and girls to cooperate in the project because they are offered nothing else.
I wonder about that poster image. Could it be fake? A review from Sundance paints the picture in a more progressive light. It's written & directed by a Senegalese woman, for one thing:
"The girls are preparing to enter a dance contest, and an appearance by their great rivals (the Sweety-Swaggs) lays out what’s the come: The Swaggs are older, more developed, more sexualized, and their moves reflect that. The Cuties certainly don’t understand that even the elder Swaggs are at the mercy of a hyper-sexualized culture and its demands, and that there’s something deeply wrong with a teenager taking her top off in the middle of a dance video. Soon enough, the Cuties are unfurling their own new routine led by Amy, who remains tuned in to what’s happening around her but not what it means.
The foursome does realize that there is something here beyond their reach — new best pal Angelica balks at a move that involves lasciviously sucking on her fingers and they all seem to think their butt-bumping is silly more than anything. The audience must endure their sexualization as increasingly horrified spectators. The girls vacillate between being hyper-interested in the opposite sex (the girls push Amy to videotape a cute boy in the bathroom) and being freaked out by its actual mechanics, as in a scene in which they discover a used condom. A group of initially interested teenage boys soon recoil in disgust (and fear?) when they realize how young the Cuties are. “They’re little girls,” one of them scoffs, as the tweens jostle and preen, desperate to prove otherwise."
"https://www.indiewire.com/2020/01/cuties-review-netflix-sundance-maimouna-doucure-1202202924/
Oh shit! Nope, the poster's real. I see it on my Netflix. I still don't know whether the movie itself is exploitative or not (having not seen it) but Netflix's marketing of it is definitely gross.
No, it’s not just you. The sexualisation of girls is everywhere. Boundaries are being erased right in front of our eyes.
Is this a particularly American thing? Those toddler beauty pageants are pretty 🤮 inducing and also low-level sexualised. It’s getting more out & proud now. Wtf's happening to the world?
You are my source for outrages like these. Oh the damage computers and tech have wrought! The good and the bad, and the bad is often really, really bad, come with every advance so it seems we are creating more and more problems needing solutions. You are right to mention Edward Bernays, double nephew of Sigmund Freud. It was he that got American women smoking among other nefarious projects. He and everything else from public relations and advertising, obviously forms of propaganda (supporting wars and regime change, among the projects taken on), are reasons to despise the industry.
Whatever they’re trying to sell there it’s not appropriate.
In my head the answer to every single thing you identify is just "Holy forking shirtballs!" - and every time it gets worse.
WE SEE what you see- the image, the show, the children involved in the show, the list of alarming components are endless.
It is hard to believe this is real. But it is.