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the deranged hysteria over that "cuties" movie is exactly the kind of puritanical moralism the anti-"woke" liberal crowd was rage-whining about just recently, but since it& #39;s mostly emanating from the right and their favs like tulsi they& #39;re happily silent about it now. pathetic
to be clear, netflix& #39;s decision to advertise it as some kind of soft erotica was grotesque, and likely informed by their desire for rage-clicks. but to describe that film as "child porn", as tulsi has, is fucking deranged. here& #39;s a good review https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/cuties-movie-review-1056197/">https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/mo...
the irony is the film is a critique of hyper-sexualizing young girls, and also the strict, conservative atmosphere of some religious households. given my background it hit close to home. it& #39;s a very real tension, and the film argues for a healthy resolution of it
but given netflix& #39;s grossly irresponsible advertising for it, and the way it was turned into a deranged moral crusade by right-wingers and others happy to join the bandwagon like tulsi, they ruined that filmmaker& #39;s life. but "cancel culture", am I right?
ted cruz, who has been rage-whining about the evils of "sjw cancel culture", is literally trying to get the film banned through government action. yet not a peep from taibbi, lee fang, jilani, glenn greenwald, ryan grim. who cares, it& #39;s just a senator trying to outlaw a movie
and where are the harper& #39;s magazine freaks? where is bari weiss, thomas chatterton williams, yascha mounk, jeet heer, name the scumbags who were desperately to larp as brave free speech warriors. not a word from any of them either. why? because this involves taking actual risks
btw this movie has less explicit sexualizing of young girls than leon the professional (a film I like, though those parts were needless and gross), yet the venn diagram of those calling this film child porn while having leon on their favorite movies list is a circle
incidentally luc besson, who is a sexual predator, wanted to add more explicitly sexualizing scenes, but portman& #39;s family and jean reno put a stop to it. it would have ruined the movie, and have made it actual child porn https://twitter.com/red_fiesta/status/1253702435169845250">https://twitter.com/red_fiest...
"I hate cancel culture but I love my fav anti-cancelling senator banning movies over a deranged moral panic"
what& #39;s the calculus that makes a rando 14 year old anime avi saying some asinine shit the greatest threat to western civilization that must be endlessly debated, but makes senators trying to ban a movie over a BS contrived moral panic not even worth a moment& #39;s thought? explain it
that& #39;s rhetorical. I know the answer: you& #39;re all part of a narcissistic and increasingly deranged professional media class whose social function it is to manufacture consent for the ruling class. there are no principles involved. just narcissism and in-group derived resentment
a rare case of ben shapiro actually bothering to look into the background of something before commenting on it https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1304850264973811714">https://twitter.com/zei_squir...
