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 (DIR) Post #9ziOLg9l9SUHCqhBPU by ArtistBristol@spinster.xyz
       2020-10-01T10:27:28.422524Z
       
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       I’m always pleased to read a reasoned discussion about a controversy  and have my mind changed. So while as a cancelled artist myself, I am all for freedom of artistic expression,  I WAS in Brendan O’Neil’s camp over ‘Cuties’ ( he’s opposed to censoring it). In the UK its been given a 15 certificate.But here he is with both sides of the argument, and his opponent is a wonderful woman, Katherine Birbalsingh, Head teacher of Micheala Community School in North West London, who has worked with inner city youth for 20 years.I am now completely won over by her argument, and feel that the film should have had restricted viewing at Arts festivals only ( practically  impossible in the pandemic I know) with a debate with the audience before and afterwards. And not released worldwide in Netflix and cinemas.https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/10/01/is-cuties-a-dangerous-movie/
       
 (DIR) Post #9ziQ3OdTkoX3Yx0Sem by MaidenMotherCrone@spinster.xyz
       2020-10-01T10:37:50.116903Z
       
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       @ArtistBristol I get the argument that it’s important to show difficult things in movies/TV in order to bring up a conversation about them, e.g., rape.  The difference is that when there’s a rape scene in movies/TV, it’s simulated rape.  You don’t actually watch a video of a woman being raped.  With Cuties, this isn’t simulated child abuse; it’s not fake; to me, it’s actual child abuse/exploitation.  You’re watching child abuse.  Because these children can’t consent to being shown/used in this way, and there’s no telling how this will affect their mental health in the future.  It’s just the same as a paedophile distributing “soft” “child porn” for other paedophiles to enjoy, except this is on Netflix, and it seems to escape people that what they’re actually watching is child sexual exploitation.
       
 (DIR) Post #9ziQ3Osiq8j2KE8dPs by ArtistBristol@spinster.xyz
       2020-10-01T10:45:43.239328Z
       
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       @MaidenMotherCrone Yes, as I said, her argument won me over. She made the excellent  point that just because  it’s got a 15 certificate  here, children can easily see clips of it on their phones.As someone who has been fighting against children being sucked into gangs for 20 years, she certainly  holds the moral high ground on this one.
       
 (DIR) Post #9ziRHZUEJ8SRDy0GSO by ArtistBristol@spinster.xyz
       2020-10-01T10:51:27.120904Z
       
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       @MaidenMotherCrone Films they couldn’t make/ show today would include Babylon, Saturday Night Fever, and probably even This Is England. Racial stereotypes, violence and abuse,  the N word, homophobia, misogyny. Yet they are all 3 great films making genuine attempts to bring a particular youth culture to the screen. I still enjoy watching all of them.
       
 (DIR) Post #9ziRHZeVgugHjqoTTs by MaidenMotherCrone@spinster.xyz
       2020-10-01T10:55:04.577582Z
       
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       @ArtistBristol  SIMULATED homophobia, misogyny, abuse, violence.  That’s the difference, which I don’t think you quite grasp yet.  Cuties is actual childhood sexual explotation, and shouldn’t be shown anywhere under any circumstances, because the girls they filmed cannot consent to being used in what is essentially “soft” “child porn”.
       
 (DIR) Post #9ziRHa8dssmfFIuXRo by ChameleonBones@spinster.xyz
       2020-10-01T11:03:23.930234Z
       
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       @MaidenMotherCrone @ArtistBristol Yes, and I haven’t seen many people mention that the creators spent 6 months auditioning more than 650 girls for the film. I find it extremely concerning that it got made at all and that there are potentially >600 audition tapes of children twerking owned by somebody without repercussion.