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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
DIR By: patrick jane
Date: September 23, 2020, 5:27 pm
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> Why ‘Cuties’ Isn’t Just Netflix’s Problem
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> The sexual exploitation of children is a symptom of a larger
disease—one that we’re complicit in.
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> On September 9, independent French film Les Mignonnes made its
American debut on Netflix under the title Cuties. While director
Maïmouna Doucouré intends the film as a critique of the sexual
exploitation of children, she quickly found her work facing
condemnation for participating in that very thing. Within days,
#CancelNetflix was trending and the film had received an
astounding 1.06/10 audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes (as of
publishing date).
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> Part of the public outcry targeted Netflix’s problematic
marketing of Cuties earlier in August. If design is
communication, the chosen images, description, and subtext did
not critique a culture that sexually exploits young girls. It
actively played into it, issuing an invitation to come gaze on
the actors as they engage in “free-spirited” dance.
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> The film itself also faces difficult questions about the
ethics of using child actors to portray the process of
sexualization. Abuse survivor and advocate Rachael Denhollander
tweeted: “One can’t protest sexualizing children by …
sexualizing them.” And Vox movie critic and former Christianity
Today columnist Alissa Wilkinson pointed out that “trying to
depict something in the context of critiquing it isn’t always
successful.”
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> The ambiguous nature of sexual exploitation within Western
culture explains both the controversy surrounding Cuties and the
thesis of the film itself. While public condemnation has been
sure and swift, it sometimes misses the pressing questions about
whether our society is safe for children: What if the
sexualization of young girls is not a bug but a feature? What if
Netflix knows something about us that we don’t about ourselves?
>
> The central character of Cuties is Amy, an 11-year-old
Senegalese immigrant living in France with her mother and two
younger brothers. The story echoes Doucouré’s own childhood,
caught between a permissive Western culture that exploited girls
one way and a traditional culture that exploited them in other
ways. Longing for love and connection, Amy quickly intuits what
Western culture values and begins to adapt. She recognizes that
this new land of smartphones, social media, and
hyper-sexualization rewards her for objectifying herself. But
limited by both age and her outsider experience, Amy does not
know where suggestive pop culture ends and pornography begins.
As she discovers increasingly explicit material online, she
mimics it adding erotic behavior, dress, and mannerisms to her
dance repertoire—all while oblivious to Western culture’s tacit
agreements about which sexual behaviors are socially acceptable
and which are not.
>
> The challenge of the film is that there are no obvious
villains. No basement-dwelling perverts luring Amy over the
internet. No trusted family friend grooming her for abuse.
Instead, the film presents the banality of evil and how easily a
young girl dropped into Western culture might be exploited by
subtle cues and behaviors that exist in the light of day. There
are no pedophiles hiding behind every corner on whom we can
neatly blame the sexualization of girlhood.
>
> One could undoubtedly argue that the exploitation of young
girls overflows from a decadent society, one where sex sells.
It’s true: Sex does sell. And at some point, the most hardened
don’t care who is being sold. Child trafficking is real, and
Netflix did market the film in a provocative way.
>
> Yet the hyper-sexualization of our society doesn’t answer why
children are sexualized. What kind of culture exploits their
young this way? What kind of culture both condemns pedophilia
and sells padded bras to pre-pubescent girls? Why did Netflix
think that their marketing would work?
>
> To answer this question, we must understand the degree to
which our society does not value childhood in the first place.
Denhollander’s memoir exposing the serial predator Larry Nassar
asks the question in her title: What Is a Girl Worth? She
presses into the structures and value systems that allowed
Nassar to continue abusing young girls for years. Ultimately,
children are threatened by both predators and a culture that
does not hear them when they cry out for help.
>
> Protecting children at the risk of destabilizing powerful
organizations or indicting beloved adults means asking ourselves
not just "What is a girl worth?" but “What are we willing to
pay?” This question ultimately exposes our larger cultural value
systems. We prize efficiency. Children are inefficient. We value
wealth creation. Children are costly and can’t pay their own
way. We honor independence and radical autonomy. Children are
dependent and hamper our freedom. We drive toward what Wendell
Berry calls “the objective.” Children like to take the long,
meandering route home.
>
> It’s no wonder, then, that such a society, would increasingly
find ways to truncate childhood. Instead of making space for
children to be children, we under-support and undervalue those
who care for them, whether in the home or the classroom. We ask
fifth-graders to map out their career goals. We hire private
coaches to improve their pitching, not so they can enjoy
baseball with their friends, but to prepare them for the
“future.” And thus by rushing our kids through childhood, we
ensure that prolonged adolescence extends in both directions.
>
> With a smaller window of childhood, children naturally begin
to adopt postures and traits associated with burgeoning
adulthood. In a society that worships unchecked sexual
expression, these attitudes necessarily include overt sexuality.
The more children are led this way, the more likely they are to
be abused by those who manipulate their intellectual and
emotional naiveté—proffering “she looked older” as an excuse.
While pedophilia certainly exists, the objectification and
sexualization of young girls in Western culture has as much do
with our complicity in viewing them as women before they truly
are.
>
> If you are outraged by the sexual exploitation of young girls,
you’re in good company. In Matthew 18, Jesus warns that those
who would harm children will face his wrath, and it would be
better for them to have a millstone hung around their neck and
be thrown into the sea than cause a little one to stumble.
>
> But Jesus’ strong words do not stem from a selective focus on
child trafficking or pedophilia. Instead, they are rooted in a
holistic understanding of the goodness of childhood and the
unique role that children play in God’s kingdom. Just before he
warns us that we must not harm children, he commands us to
actively welcome them. And he said:
>
> “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little
children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore,
whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest
in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in
my name welcomes me.” (Matt. 18:2–5)
>
> Part of the goodness of childhood is that children remind us
of our own dependence on God. Vulnerable, limited, and wholly
reliant on others to protect them, children show us how we must
come to the kingdom. They show us the only way we can come. The
very things that our culture disdains about childhood are the
very things that God honors.
>
> If we are to truly protect children in such a culture, it will
require more than boycotts, political posturing, or public
stances. It will require a willingness to disturb our own
organizations and question the value systems that tell us that
children are not worthy of our time, resources, and care. It
will require aligning our hearts with the heart of God who
delights to care for children in their weakness, who celebrates
them despite their inefficiencies, and who honors them as
image-bearers, even now.
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All That’s Good, and Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and
Nourishes Your Soul.
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
DIR By: patrick jane
Date: September 25, 2020, 10:18 pm
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
DIR By: guest17
Date: September 25, 2020, 11:52 pm
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> Why ‘Cuties’ Isn’t Just Netflix’s Problem
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>
>
> The sexual exploitation of children is a symptom of a larger
disease—one that we’re complicit in.
>
>
> On September 9, independent French film Les Mignonnes made its
American debut on Netflix under the title Cuties. While director
Maïmouna Doucouré intends the film as a critique of the sexual
exploitation of children, she quickly found her work facing
condemnation for participating in that very thing. Within days,
#CancelNetflix was trending and the film had received an
astounding 1.06/10 audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes (as of
publishing date).
>
> Part of the public outcry targeted Netflix’s problematic
marketing of Cuties earlier in August. If design is
communication, the chosen images, description, and subtext did
not critique a culture that sexually exploits young girls. It
actively played into it, issuing an invitation to come gaze on
the actors as they engage in “free-spirited” dance.
>
> The film itself also faces difficult questions about the
ethics of using child actors to portray the process of
sexualization. Abuse survivor and advocate Rachael Denhollander
tweeted: “One can’t protest sexualizing children by …
sexualizing them.” And Vox movie critic and former Christianity
Today columnist Alissa Wilkinson pointed out that “trying to
depict something in the context of critiquing it isn’t always
successful.”
>
> The ambiguous nature of sexual exploitation within Western
culture explains both the controversy surrounding Cuties and the
thesis of the film itself. While public condemnation has been
sure and swift, it sometimes misses the pressing questions about
whether our society is safe for children: What if the
sexualization of young girls is not a bug but a feature? What if
Netflix knows something about us that we don’t about ourselves?
>
> The central character of Cuties is Amy, an 11-year-old
Senegalese immigrant living in France with her mother and two
younger brothers. The story echoes Doucouré’s own childhood,
caught between a permissive Western culture that exploited girls
one way and a traditional culture that exploited them in other
ways. Longing for love and connection, Amy quickly intuits what
Western culture values and begins to adapt. She recognizes that
this new land of smartphones, social media, and
hyper-sexualization rewards her for objectifying herself. But
limited by both age and her outsider experience, Amy does not
know where suggestive pop culture ends and pornography begins.
As she discovers increasingly explicit material online, she
mimics it adding erotic behavior, dress, and mannerisms to her
dance repertoire—all while oblivious to Western culture’s tacit
agreements about which sexual behaviors are socially acceptable
and which are not.
>
> The challenge of the film is that there are no obvious
villains. No basement-dwelling perverts luring Amy over the
internet. No trusted family friend grooming her for abuse.
Instead, the film presents the banality of evil and how easily a
young girl dropped into Western culture might be exploited by
subtle cues and behaviors that exist in the light of day. There
are no pedophiles hiding behind every corner on whom we can
neatly blame the sexualization of girlhood.
>
> One could undoubtedly argue that the exploitation of young
girls overflows from a decadent society, one where sex sells.
It’s true: Sex does sell. And at some point, the most hardened
don’t care who is being sold. Child trafficking is real, and
Netflix did market the film in a provocative way.
>
> Yet the hyper-sexualization of our society doesn’t answer why
children are sexualized. What kind of culture exploits their
young this way? What kind of culture both condemns pedophilia
and sells padded bras to pre-pubescent girls? Why did Netflix
think that their marketing would work?
>
> To answer this question, we must understand the degree to
which our society does not value childhood in the first place.
Denhollander’s memoir exposing the serial predator Larry Nassar
asks the question in her title: What Is a Girl Worth? She
presses into the structures and value systems that allowed
Nassar to continue abusing young girls for years. Ultimately,
children are threatened by both predators and a culture that
does not hear them when they cry out for help.
>
> Protecting children at the risk of destabilizing powerful
organizations or indicting beloved adults means asking ourselves
not just "What is a girl worth?" but “What are we willing to
pay?” This question ultimately exposes our larger cultural value
systems. We prize efficiency. Children are inefficient. We value
wealth creation. Children are costly and can’t pay their own
way. We honor independence and radical autonomy. Children are
dependent and hamper our freedom. We drive toward what Wendell
Berry calls “the objective.” Children like to take the long,
meandering route home.
>
> It’s no wonder, then, that such a society, would increasingly
find ways to truncate childhood. Instead of making space for
children to be children, we under-support and undervalue those
who care for them, whether in the home or the classroom. We ask
fifth-graders to map out their career goals. We hire private
coaches to improve their pitching, not so they can enjoy
baseball with their friends, but to prepare them for the
“future.” And thus by rushing our kids through childhood, we
ensure that prolonged adolescence extends in both directions.
>
> With a smaller window of childhood, children naturally begin
to adopt postures and traits associated with burgeoning
adulthood. In a society that worships unchecked sexual
expression, these attitudes necessarily include overt sexuality.
The more children are led this way, the more likely they are to
be abused by those who manipulate their intellectual and
emotional naiveté—proffering “she looked older” as an excuse.
While pedophilia certainly exists, the objectification and
sexualization of young girls in Western culture has as much do
with our complicity in viewing them as women before they truly
are.
>
> If you are outraged by the sexual exploitation of young girls,
you’re in good company. In Matthew 18, Jesus warns that those
who would harm children will face his wrath, and it would be
better for them to have a millstone hung around their neck and
be thrown into the sea than cause a little one to stumble.
>
> But Jesus’ strong words do not stem from a selective focus on
child trafficking or pedophilia. Instead, they are rooted in a
holistic understanding of the goodness of childhood and the
unique role that children play in God’s kingdom. Just before he
warns us that we must not harm children, he commands us to
actively welcome them. And he said:
>
> “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little
children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore,
whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest
in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in
my name welcomes me.” (Matt. 18:2–5)
>
> Part of the goodness of childhood is that children remind us
of our own dependence on God. Vulnerable, limited, and wholly
reliant on others to protect them, children show us how we must
come to the kingdom. They show us the only way we can come. The
very things that our culture disdains about childhood are the
very things that God honors.
>
> If we are to truly protect children in such a culture, it will
require more than boycotts, political posturing, or public
stances. It will require a willingness to disturb our own
organizations and question the value systems that tell us that
children are not worthy of our time, resources, and care. It
will require aligning our hearts with the heart of God who
delights to care for children in their weakness, who celebrates
them despite their inefficiencies, and who honors them as
image-bearers, even now.
>
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> Hannah Anderson is the author of Made for More, All That’s
Good, and Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your
Soul.
> [quote]I saw clips of this movie but didn't watch it. The
clips were more than enough for me. “One can’t protest
sexualizing children by … sexualizing them." Exactly. There is
no line that these people won't cross. They can no longer
distinguish right from wrong and good from bad. They are evil.
They believe that evil is good and that good is evil.
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
DIR By: patrick jane
Date: October 6, 2020, 3:44 pm
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
DIR By: patrick jane
Date: October 26, 2020, 12:13 pm
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This video outlines current litigation against Google for
banning YouTube channel with no cause. The common denominator
for all of the recently banned channel is that they each exposed
pedophilia and child sex trafficking.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFMYFatpO1k
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
DIR By: guest8
Date: October 26, 2020, 7:51 pm
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> This video outlines current litigation against Google for
banning YouTube channel with no cause. The common denominator
for all of the recently banned channel is that they each exposed
pedophilia and child sex trafficking.
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hang em
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
DIR By: patrick jane
Date: October 28, 2020, 4:15 am
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> [quote author=patrick jane link=topic=370.msg19599#msg19599
date=1603732381]
> This video outlines current litigation against Google for
banning YouTube channel with no cause. The common denominator
for all of the recently banned channel is that they each exposed
pedophilia and child sex trafficking.
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hang em
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
DIR By: guest17
Date: October 28, 2020, 9:13 pm
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Urban Conservatives of America
Yesterday at 2:03 AM ·
45 missing children recovered during largest statewide
anti-human trafficking operation in Ohio
HTML https://www.facebook.com/urbanconservativesofamericacorporate/videos/721500755121048
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
DIR By: guest8
Date: October 28, 2020, 9:40 pm
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> Urban Conservatives of America
> Yesterday at 2:03 AM ·
> 45 missing children recovered during largest statewide
anti-human trafficking operation in Ohio
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unfortunately, it is going to get worse...
Blade
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
DIR By: patrick jane
Date: October 31, 2020, 9:44 am
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> [quote author=truthjourney link=topic=370.msg19721#msg19721
date=1603937593]
> Urban Conservatives of America
> Yesterday at 2:03 AM ·
> 45 missing children recovered during largest statewide
anti-human trafficking operation in Ohio
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>
HTML https://www.facebook.com/urbanconservativesofamericacorporate/videos/721500755121048
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unfortunately, it is going to get worse...
Blade
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