And, you know, the parts about the girls using hypersexualized dance moves and the [spoil] scene when one of the girls starts taking her clothes off[/spoil]
How much of the movie did you see?
All of it. The move where she didn't actually take off any clothing, she didn't even pull anything down at all there, and that entire scene was completely blown out of context. The guy stopped her the second she started and made it clear that was not appropriate. She was confused because her own mother and aunt told her she was a woman because she started her period, but yet everyone still treats her like a kid. That was the point. The point being that this time in a girls life is a difficult struggle between being a child and turning into a woman. It wasn't actually about sex and there was not sex taking place. It was a confused girl acting like a confused girl not understanding whether she was a kid or an adult yet, but obviously doing exactly what a kid would do during the entire situation due to her not understanding what it even means to be an adult yet. There is nothing that should be censored in that scene, as that is something girls her age can actually relate to rather than being something that would cause emotional harm. The parental religious abuse OTOH can cause actual psychological harm.
"Hypersexualized" tbh is really some serious BS. It is like somehow wrong or shameful for girls to have a sex drive or something or they should be shamed of their bodies. But the reality here is that dance =\= intercourse. I have an extremely high sex drive, MUCH higher than most even consider "high" ,yet dancing doesn't make me think of sex either. I was never told to be ashamed of sexual pleasure or masturbation as a kid and yea I did more than my fair share of it, HOWEVER, dancing is not related to that no matter how sexy someone else thinks it is. It isn't actually about sex at all is the issue here. That isn't what girls themselves are thinking about while they are dancing. This is important because if they say " they are ignorant of how this impacts others" it is just projecting others thoughts on to them rather than expecting others to be responsible for their own thoughts. If you have creeps fetishizing baseball players and that the kids don't realize how sexy they are in those tight pants BS are we going to go police them as well? This is no different. You hold those who are thinking those things about the kids accountable, not the kids. I don't see this as sexual because I don't see kids as sexual. If you see them as sexual, that is on you to correct, not them. Don't punish kids for your own thoughts. Telling kids " Put that away dear, Daddy has a dirty mind" is WRONG. If Daddy thinks that is sexy, daddy needs to check himself instead.
It is like they expect girls to exist in a bubble separate from everyone else and the rest of life. It doesn't work that way. See the problem here is the way you view what is happening rather than what is actually happening. Let the girls be girls. Growing up we danced, we had fun, we enjoyed gymnastics, dance, and goofing off doing acrobatics on trapeze and "pole dancing" on the tetherball pole on the school playground. You see this as something being imposed upon the kids, I see the ONLY thing being imposed upon the kids here are these ignorant religious extremist beliefs and done so in both a physically and emotionally abusive manner, which is considered extremely wrong and illegal where I come from to do so at all. Indoctrination of children into religious beliefs is wrong.
Girls dancing, goofing off and being girls is not. People really need to stop trying to police everything girls do.
Girls dancing are not shameful or wrong, to make it worse, some see what girls actually do in reality as being worse than all the portrayals of violence and murder in the media. This goes back to religions teaching it was okay to stone someone to death but to not have a sex drive. It was stupid then and it is stupid now.
Also this is no different than what girls do here all the time on their own as well and it isn't wrong here either.
And to make it clear, kids should be free to express themselves and develop their own sexual identity, but displaying that in a live-action movie should be treated with a lot more caution than Cuties appears to be doing. They took a lot of caution (unless the director, producers and casting...
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And to make it clear, kids should be free to express themselves and develop their own sexual identity, but displaying that in a live-action movie should be treated with a lot more caution than Cuties appears to be doing. They took a lot of caution (unless the director, producers and casting...
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Yes. You need more context than "dance competitions" before you can draw the line between what sort of outfit isn't acceptable for a dance competition? I don't believe you.
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