I guess the other thing about Cuties is to ask why the fuck the culture war over this issue hit the boiling point over this movie, now, when Dance Moms has run for eight seasons and only went on hiatus about COVID-19, and Maddie Ziegler etc launched careers from it
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I mean, I'm not actually saying all the backlash was racist -- a lot of people genuinely did not know Maïmouna Doucouré existed when this started and assumed the movie must've been made by a white guy and set in America But I do think there's bad actors involved here
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Meanwhile, politicians and the upper echelon allowed Epstein to run wild unbothered.
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I feel like pretty much any satirist needs to put their work to a "will audiences get that it's satire?" test. Classic example is Judge Dread, where a parody of fascism were too subtle and ended up being actually quasi-fascist.
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There's an insanely thin line between "film satirizing the exploitation of young girls and their bodies by the media" and "film that exploits young girls and their bodies."
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I mean I suspect part of it is that people don’t grant Black woman the agency to even see them as capable of being filmmakers creating satire about their experiences of hypersexualization and therefore assume it must be a white man doing it for real.
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Admittedly I haven't watched the show but I thought the complaint was that the Netflix poster didn't campfire the spirit of the filmmaker's vision? That she *wasn't* one of those trying to sell young bodies and so it shouldn't have that poster?
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In other words, my understanding was the backlash was at how Netflix marketed it, not at the show itself.
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