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

Some bad fucking luck that all this pent-up rage is landing on a first-time Senegalese-French female filmmaker who was aiming for satire, and not on the many people selling young girls' bodies for entertainment for real

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