Child Friendly

I don't know why Bro America is upset about preteen girls finding boys attractive I mean there are many times in family movies where preteen/young teenage boys find girls attractive and many times they have crushes on a teen or adult who are too old for them

But God forbid if a preteen/young teen girl gets a crush on a boy in a family film even if it is just a brief moment

I swear these are the same type of people who tell girls to cover their shoulders cause it distracts boys not realizing boys get distracted by pretty much anything

@AmericanButterfly Isn't it the usual thing of fathers defending their daughters? You know, a father won't accept his daughter's new boyfriend, unless the boyfriend can defeat the father in combat? On the other hand, if a son gets a girlfriend, the old man will just congratulate the son.

@AmericanButterfly
Because in Bro America's experience, any girl who starts to think about boys is likely to find herself pregnant soon afterwards. I mean, it's not like sex ed is an option, right? (gasp)

@BrotherNetherlands85 am sure bro America knows about where babies come from

Though am pretty sure bro England told him

@AmericanButterfly And as we all know the English are experts at sex education.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRD0-7NSXd8

I had barely heard about this movie, and nothing about any controversy. However I also know how my fellow Americans love to throw a fit over nothing, so I'm far from surprised.

As an American, I would like to apologize to the rest of the world for being a nation comprised of about 70% idiocy.

Any other nation want to adopt me? I'm housebroken, and don't waste my time trying to tell other people how to live their lives.

@Tarmaque

I think you'd be welcome in any Nordic country, if you'd like to give it a try?
Some of our neighbours are less welcoming to immigrants then others, but I don't think anyone has a problem with housebroken Americans.

@Nisse_Hult Why thank you, Nisse! I'll pack my shoes and my other shirt and be right over.

I don't really understand what about periods and girls being attracted to boys is hurting preteens watching it?? Either the children already have periods or they're going to start in a few years and it's going to happen TO THEM, and attraction to the opposite sex is both heterosexual and something that preteens already are feelings in some capacity (i, for one had a crush in preschool (7) or kindergarten (4-6)).



Oh, i forgot. Americans are afraid of sex ed!

@Sisu sadly in many states sex ed is just

Danish Culture: "Fuck it. It's funny and life's too short to be that serious."

Didn't we have this argument over Judy Bloom's books? Every year, there's a nutjob who tries to get her books removed because they discuss puberty and sexual relationships, and every year, everyone just rolls their eyes and jokes that the complainers are those for whom sex was never a possibility to begin with.

Monty Python's Lumberjack Song is over 50 years old, and somehow themes like crossdressing, having the world's biggest penis and joining satanic cults are still taboo for most people...

Why can't we just live and let live? If someone likes doing something that's not harming anyone, can we just let them?

@ImportViking Of course you're right and too many people here try to demand we self censor.

Apparently one guy (in Mexico?) has been stretching his foreskin* hoping to enlarge his penis but it weighs so much he's mostly disabled by the weight. He keeps it bandaged but maybe that's just for protection. If he has manipulated it to increase the size I have to wonder what the point is since it appears to be unusable for, well, anyone. But who am I to judge? I could argue it is hurting the owner but no one is hurt by discussing it.

Then there's Satan- yeah, people here can lose their mind over that and then refuse to believe Satan as the devil as Satan and his hellfires are non-canonical. Satan isn't even the guy they're talking about from the Bible when they claim he's canonical.

And then bathroom bills, transphobia and on and on … yeah, it's all going to hell in a handbasket over here and a lot of us just want that handbasket back and the bringers to hell to just keep going … maybe to their fabricated hell. There's real things to worry about but apparently not in this country.

* According to "people" brought in to evaluate penis size so "they" claim it doesn't qualify. It's been awhile since I read about it and watched an insufficiently informative video so I don't recall the details … like who was judging it's size, weight and source of the size

I've always found it funny how the United States are comfortable with war, violence, horror and crime, but sexuality make them* awkward.

*Of course not everybody, but the moral minority which likes to claim its the moral majority.

@Torbk I'm not! The only horror I like is podcasts where I can control it.

Plenty of people like sex as a sales tool but the women have to be perfect.

The Moral Majority is Neither tried to pull their voting bloc together with porn. When that didn't work because Evangelicals looove their porn they turned on fetuses to demand they should all be born, just to turn their backs on them once they were actual babies.

Link to all 3 shows ?

@walmartbrandhammoud

Not sure I can find the precise links, but the three shows in order are:
- "John Dillermand" (Litterally "John Dick-man". Diller is the more childish / silly word for penis)
- I think this one is Gepetto News, during which a puppet sings about wearing female underwear. Had to do a bit of googling for that one, not something I had heard about.
- "Onkel Reje" (Uncle Shrimp), specifically "Onkel Rejes fede sommerferie" (... 's great summer holiday).

The rest is in your hands, godspeed!

Fun Fact in 1946 Disney made an education animated video about Periods and were the first to ever say vagina on screen
here's the video The Story of Menstruation (1946)

so yeah a mom mistaking her daughter for being on her period cause she turned into a giant red panda and was afraid of her mom finding out was kind of tame, but then her mom embarrassed her by trying to bring her pads at school instead of just going to the front desk as a normal damn parent comes on Mrs. Lee that was uncalled for even though Mei wasn't actually on her period and just trying to keep her panda in control that was cringe I really felt bad for Mei there.

@AmericanButterfly

1. Good for Disney!

2. That sounds like it could be funny. In a very cringy way, of course, but definately on the side of the child.

@AmericanButterfly wow, Disney has really become a corporate swill pit...

I do not have a problem with sexual biology or analogies to such in movies.

I have a problem with depictions of selling pictures of your teen "panda" not being depicted as something you should not do.

I had the same issue with Cuties. I don't oppose a movie addressing the issue of sexualization of kids. I have a problem with slow and deliberate shots of a preteen crotch in tight Booty shorts.

@Thomas The movie was meant to show the hypocrisy of finding it uncomfortable, yet watching kids of the same age range or lower mimicking clearly sexual dances, wearing pounds of make up and tiny clothes somehow doesn't. It's meant to make you feel sick, that's the proper response. It was also supposed to cover on how media encourages young girls before puberty to feel pressure to act more adult and therefore sexual in one aspect or another and how media affects them.

Instead of actually doing something to address the point of the movie, people got mad at the movie, but didn't actually go out and protest pre-teen beauty pageants, or stage performances with tiny skirts, or media overall presenting really negative and damaging standards as well as making every female feel like their sexual aspects are what they are valued for. Whether you agree that the film succeeded or exacerbated the problem, the response people had to it was open mouth insert foot. They could of protested both the film and the point the film in their eyes failed to make.

If anything, I'm uncomfortable with the fact that someone felt the need to make the movie that visceral to try to reach people and say that this isn't okay and force them to view what they see but don't question in a light that they tend to ignore, because it was so incredibly blatant that it was hard to not feel horrified by. It seems like unless someone spells out the message very very slowly and in big letters, people don't seem to get it and it's frustrating. Protect the children, but ignore the parts of society, including our own double standards and ignorance that actually harm kids.

If you and others reading this hated Cuties and think it was harmful, I totally get it. Continue to feel that, but also do something about it. Sign petitions about pre-teen pageants, leave comments on videos where clearly the kids are not wearing age appropriate clothing or doing appropriate dances. Contact or educate others about how media encourages women not only in pre-pubescent ages, but all ages that their sexual appeal is all they have going for them and what they are valued for. Attack the roots, not the symptoms.