I was going to write a piece about Cuties, the French film picked up by Netflix that, while theoretically condemning the sexual exploration of children, actually functions as sexual exploitation of children and meets the definition of child pornography.
John Nolte has a good summary of the issue:
If the uproar over Netflix’s Cuties tells us anything, it’s that we’re now at a point where the political left and the national media want to normalize child pornography.
There is no moral world, no sane world in which a movie like Cuties is okay. While I acknowledged in my review that Cuties is critical of the misogynist elements of traditional Islam and that that’s a perfectly reasonable message, I do not agree the movie is a critique of how social media sexualizes children.
To me, Cuties is a classic story with a classic structure. You put your hero through a difficult journey and the hero comes out the other end better for it. That’s what twerking and posting nude photos accomplish for the 11-year-old Ami, the protagonist in Cuties. This journey is portrayed as difficult but ultimately healthy. Spiritually and mentally healthy. There’s no lasting damage at the end of that journey, just growth and enlightenment. Terrible message. Indefensible.
Even if you buy the manure that Cuties is critical of sexualizing children, how is sexualizing children to criticize sexualizing children okay?
Cuties is not like a movie opposed to torture or animal abuse or rape that dramatizes torture and animal abuse and rape. The sexualization of young girls is not dramatized in Cuties. The girls are sexualized. The camera floats all over them like a pervert, even when they spread their 11-year-old legs.
So why is the left suddenly crossing this line? Why is Netflix mainstreaming soft-core child pornography? Why is it now acceptable for the elite media to publish headlines like this one?: “Cuties, Netflix Review: a Provocative Powder-Keg for an Age Terrified of Child Sexuality” — as if only backwards hicks could be “terrified” of sexualizing 11-year-olds.
Or this headline: “The Creepy Conservative Obsession With Netflix’s Cuties, Explained” — as though finding soft-core child pornography revolting and outrageous is all of a sudden a “creepy obsession.”
Those in the media not openly defending soft-core child pornography are defending it by covering up the controversy, by pretending it doesn’t exist.
A few other reactions:
The part where the young girls, aged 9-13, are stroking their v*****s with their fingers while thrusting and humping on a stage in booty shorts for adults was what pushed “Cuties” into the unequivocal CP category for me, personally. https://t.co/GnxwPCvkE6
— The Red-Headed Libertarian ™ (@TRHLofficial) September 11, 2020
Some professor seems to be under the mistaken impression that, if child pornography is produced overseas, U.S. companies can distribute it here in the United States without facing criminal liability.
Although perhaps a popular view in the faculty lounge, that is not federal law. https://t.co/vm43OJlyWd
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 12, 2020
This is what the Democrat culture is bringing you. Netflix brings you a show titled Cuties. it is about 11 year old girls twerking. This is abhorrent. pic.twitter.com/uZvBXec8eg
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) August 20, 2020
.@netflix child porn "Cuties" will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles & help fuel the child sex trafficking trade. 1 in 4 victims of trafficking are children. It happened to my friend's 13 year old daughter. Netflix, you are now complicit. #CancelNetflix pic.twitter.com/GI8KFH7LFq
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) September 12, 2020
Anyway, I was going to write about it, along with California’s move to decriminalize child-diddling, but 2020’s furious Press Of Events meant I never got to it.
But now a grand jury in Tyler County [corrected – LP], Texas has indicted Netflix for “promotion of lewd visual material depicting a child” over the movie:
A grand jury in Tyler County, Texas has indicted Netflix for “promotion of lewd visual material depicting a child” over the movie “Cuties,” which depicts 11-year-old girls learning to perform sexualized dance moves with a plot loosely wrapped around it.
According to the indictment, Netflix knowingly promoted “visual material which depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or public area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 years of age,” which “appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”
“The film routinely fetishizes and sexualizes these pre-adolescent girls as they perform dances simulating sexual conduct in revealing clothing, including at least one scene with partial child nudity,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) last month, as he called for a criminal investigation into the film, calling it “pornographic.”
“These scenes in and of themselves are harmful. And it is likely that the filming of this movie created even more explicit and abusive scenes, and that pedophiles across the world in the future will manipulate and imitate this film in abusive ways…Although the First Amendment provides vigorous protection for artistic expression, it does not allow individuals or for-profit corporations to produce or distribute child pornography,” Cruz added.
The big mystery is why, when the controversy first broke, Netflix didn’t just admit they made a mistake and drop Cuties from their lineup? They could have earned a lot of good will for that. Instead, they just doubled-down, and kept doubling down, that there was nothing at all wrong with sexual depictions of children because it was artistic, you stupid mouth-breathing flyover country retards! Indeed, they’re still defending it, despite a huge spike in service cancellations over it.
Netflix so loves Cuties that they’re willing to lose paying customers and weather a criminal indictment for child pornography over it.
Between this, the California law, and other cultural signifiers (remember all those creepy pro-pedophilia pieces in Salon a few years back?), the inescapable conclusion is that numerous powerful individuals in our culture seem very heavily invested in normalizing sex with children.
Want to guess which political party Netflix CEO Reed Hasting donates big bucks to?
Go ahead. Guess.
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The grand jury that handed down the indictment was in Tyler County (Woodville) not the City of Tyler, which is Smith County.
Bottom line is I’m glad someone somewhere decided to stand up to this crap.
I am eagerly waiting for the press to ask Barack and Michelle about their financial dealings with Netflix and if their continued business relationship indicates that they support kiddie porn.
And if they don’t, are they going to sever their relationships with Netflix?
I’ll hold my breath.
Niccolo Machiavelli wrote:
“Valor produces peace;
peace, repose;
repose, disorder;
disorder, ruin.”
The same concept has been expressed as:
“From good civilizations come weak men;
from weak men come bad civilizations,
from bad civilizations come strong men;
from strong men come good civilizations.”
And:
“Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
Weak men create hard times.”
1776 was preceded by the hard times of bad civilizations that brought ruin and so strong men created the Constitutional Republic The United States of America as a solution.
The US was a good civilization and brought good times, peace and repose.
The US was, and could still be back, the greatest country that ever existed, by far. G R E A T E S T.
Unfortunately enough we were not vigilant or strong enough to prevent weak men from turning the country away from the spirit of 1776.
These weak men gave us the Frankfurt School, cultural marxism, the Deep State Swamp, the Long March Through the Institutions, the infection and the gatekeeping of a cancerous government turned juggernaut and the demonrat educational system, hollywierd, everything leftist and all the “critical this” and “critical that” BS and bullsh!tsectionality itself, identity politics, BLM, pantyfa and the list goes on. Everything leftist. Every single part of it all. Leftist.
Now we have the hard times and the disorder and the ruin seem to be the order of the day.
Will the valor from the strong men bring about good times and turn our civilization good, again?
Not necessarily.
The good civilization and good times and the peace are not metaphysically given.
They are men’s creations.
Once lost it takes the same or better strong men to build them back up and bring about the good times, again.
But what if we don’t?
The lefto-pukes pushing the “normalcy” of pedophilia is just a manifestation of a civilizational wide decay.
We can’t fight pedophilia by itself.
We have to fix our civilization . . . or lose it.
This is not about changing a light bulb or tightening a door handle.
Out civilizational ship is sinking.