Cuties - WTF am I seeing here?
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I found the bit interesting, where we cut from one scene where the women are talking about how sin is in the naked women, to her being fitted for what appears to be a wedding dress (or at least for going to a wedding, though it felt like a hint at arranged marriages being a thing there), and her...mother I guess(?) saying "You're a woman now." It's an interesting hypocrisy, to condemn them for acting in ways that are normally considered "adult" i.e being sexual, and then at the same point saying they are now women.
If that is an official poster, yeah, that's very questionable. And combined with that title...Maybe this poster will explain why I have a problem with this.
Judging purely from the trailer though, it feels like your typical coming of age tale through a less romanticized lense. The grimey transition from child to teenager. I don't feel the trailer is edited to sell me on underaged girls though. Obviously considering the subject matter 'girl maturing into womanhood', and it being live-action, this needs to be handled with great care and can go south easily. But so far the only thing that makes me uncomfortable is that poster.
The impression I got from the trailer, is that it's probably going to highlight the mixed messages societies send girls, and how it puts them in a state of constant stress and uncertainty. Being told they are a woman on the one hand, but then they start to behave how they understand a "woman" is, they are shamed and/or shunned. I mean the focus on the sexualization of them is so blatant, that I find it nearly impossible, in this age, that the creators are not aware of it, and are probably trying to put a spotlight on it.
I could be wrong. It could be some weird pedo story, but given the bits in the trailer...*shrugs*, I feel it's on purpose, to say "this is wrong. you don't like the way this trailer is making you feel about this subject? good."
Doubt I'll actually watch it, more just sort of an interesting curiosity.
I could be wrong. It could be some weird pedo story, but given the bits in the trailer...*shrugs*, I feel it's on purpose, to say "this is wrong. you don't like the way this trailer is making you feel about this subject? good."
Doubt I'll actually watch it, more just sort of an interesting curiosity.
Christ on a bike, who the hell approved that poster thinking “Yep, this most certainly won’t cause any negative blowback at all. No room for failure here whatsoever”?Maybe this poster will explain why I have a problem with this.
Hopefully, the pervert in marketing responsible for this was fired... as was anyone who green-lit it. Like, I shouldn't be seeing this right now.Maybe this poster will explain why I have a problem with this.
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Being cynical for a moment, I would imagine that was precisely the intention. Nothing drives clicks like a bit of controversy and now we've all heard of the show, for better or worse.
Did their parents have any say? I mean, did someone pitch this idea to their parents, that we're going to dress your daughters up like skanks and have them pose in sexually suggestive ways to market this movie?
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I couldn't get the video to play in the Op, but I went and found the trailer myself elsewhere.
First of all, I see this as a much more realistic portrayal of what girls actually go through growing up, a huge improvement from some fake iCarly BS that no one actually experiences. Second, girls have been wearing bikinis, tank tops, short shorts, mini skirts and leotards since we were toddlers, and it is beyond irritating to me to constantly having people police what girls "should and should not wear". When I view the poster above, I do not see it as "sexualizing" young girls as much as I see it "empowering" them to feel confident in their own skin. When I was in gymnastics, dance, cheer and ballet, i wore skimpy outfits, but I certainly did not want any more clothing on me while I performed, it just gets in the way. The world constantly trying to act like a girls body should be hidden is seriously messed up tbh and does more harm to young girls than just letting them wear what they choose to wear. We do not need to have the modesty police attack us when we are 4 or when we are 25. I for one do not regret jumping out of my bathtub and running down the street butt arsed naked as a kid and no one should be forced to feel bad because other people can't help but be so judgmental and impose their own level of modesty onto everyone else. It is bad enough they slut shame women, slut shaming girls for wearing dance gear is even worse. Girls should be able to wear what they want. What some dude thinks about what they wear is his problem, not hers.
Growing up in the Bible belt in the US, a lot of this hits home. Girls are constantly receiving mixed messages about who they are and what everyone else expects them to be. My brother's girlfriends parents tried to send her out of state and marry her off at the age of 14 to some old man, my brother literally hid her at my parents home to stop it from happening when he was 13 and this is the wealthiest per sq ft county in the state of Texas, not some land far away... this crap is still happening in the US:
First of all, I see this as a much more realistic portrayal of what girls actually go through growing up, a huge improvement from some fake iCarly BS that no one actually experiences. Second, girls have been wearing bikinis, tank tops, short shorts, mini skirts and leotards since we were toddlers, and it is beyond irritating to me to constantly having people police what girls "should and should not wear". When I view the poster above, I do not see it as "sexualizing" young girls as much as I see it "empowering" them to feel confident in their own skin. When I was in gymnastics, dance, cheer and ballet, i wore skimpy outfits, but I certainly did not want any more clothing on me while I performed, it just gets in the way. The world constantly trying to act like a girls body should be hidden is seriously messed up tbh and does more harm to young girls than just letting them wear what they choose to wear. We do not need to have the modesty police attack us when we are 4 or when we are 25. I for one do not regret jumping out of my bathtub and running down the street butt arsed naked as a kid and no one should be forced to feel bad because other people can't help but be so judgmental and impose their own level of modesty onto everyone else. It is bad enough they slut shame women, slut shaming girls for wearing dance gear is even worse. Girls should be able to wear what they want. What some dude thinks about what they wear is his problem, not hers.
Growing up in the Bible belt in the US, a lot of this hits home. Girls are constantly receiving mixed messages about who they are and what everyone else expects them to be. My brother's girlfriends parents tried to send her out of state and marry her off at the age of 14 to some old man, my brother literally hid her at my parents home to stop it from happening when he was 13 and this is the wealthiest per sq ft county in the state of Texas, not some land far away... this crap is still happening in the US:
See, my problem here is not with them wearing standard dance gear, it is with people thinking it is okay to claim they are dressed like skanks for wearing standard dance gear. Modesty police in full force I see? We wore all sorts of skimpy outfits when I was in Ballet, dance, cheer and gymnastics.. I do not see anything wrong with what they are wearing. I am sure the girls love reading comments like this. Must work wonders on their self esteem at such a young age.
It does seem that its the marketing that has caused the real problem here. I saw the poster before watching the trailer and so my view of its content was influenced by that.
The French poster looks like this.
End of the day, I think we can all agree that someone in marketing is going to get fired.
The French poster looks like this.
I think it's the poses in the American poster that cause this, especially the one of the girl on the right and left.
End of the day, I think we can all agree that someone in marketing is going to get fired.