[ SECRET POST #4976 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4976 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[The Untamed]


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[Deep Space Nine]


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[Fae Tactics]


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[Umbrella Academy]


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[Ashes of Love]


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[Deep Space Nine]


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[The L Word]



















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 09 secrets from Secret Submission Post #712.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links (was about a Star Trek utopia?) ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Hmm... Regarding Cuties/Mignonnes

[(Anonymous)]

Please god don't fight I'm begging ya'll, save my sanity...

SO, THINGS I DIDN'T EXPECT TO WAKE UP TO TODAY.... LMAO

So like every person with a basic functioning moral compass when I saw the Netflix America promo poster for Cuties I was like... UHM, HELLO? WHAT IS THIS SHIT? Like, that was a major blunder to put it LIGHTLY, and I'm so fucking glad they fixed it because HOLY FUCKING YIKES, NO, JUST NO.

But god am I angry for a different reason now and that's people believing NETFLIX'S fuckup to be a fuckup of the film itself. I don't condemn anyone for initially thinking this, but I hope I can spread a little bit of correct information with this post to ya'll who may have seen this drama... But the film itself? Doesn't promote the sexualization of children. End of. I submitted a secret about this, so if this wording will eventually sound redundant, its because I'm OP of the secret that'll eventually be posted:

Please please please take a few minutes to look up and read reviews of the film from January when it premiered at Sundance film festival. Please but aside your kneejerk uncomfortable and horrified reaction to take in the words of the reviews... Cuties condemns the sexualization and adultification of young girls, especially girls of color, just in a way many people in the west, myself included, are not used to. This isn't the next Little Miss Sunshine. The movie shows you uncomfortable and hard to watch scenes because that is the point - it makes you uncomfortable so that it can drive its core message home with a sledgehammer: we as a society must pick up the slack where parents unfortunately so commonly fail and protect our youth from adults who would sexualize them before they even hit puberty. We must protect our youth so that they can safely be children.

Based on reviews alone as I have not seen the movie obviously, it's plain to me that Cuties bluntly confronts the issue of the sexualization of children, that it harshly criticizes one (albeit of many) cultures that are so repulsed by and rejecting of sex that it ends up pushing its children to sexualize themselves as an act of rebellion. The fact that people who haven't seen it can't take 20 minutes to actually look into it more deeply saddens me, because it sounds like it'll be a brave and disquieting movie that is worth watching if you're in the right state of mind to do so.

Obviously: your discomfort is valid. The movie is meant to discomfort you. Similarly, you are allowed to detach from it, to say it's not for you and not watch it. But please don't moralize and devalue a story told by a black woman about her culture just because you personally are uncomfortable: let's not go down that particular rabbit hole.

One last point: there is one other movie I've seen that tackles a serious issue in a bluntly horrifying manner. I unfortunately do not remember the title, but the movie tackles CSA by straight up depicting it graphically. I cried when watching it, I had to get up and walk away... in a way for me it was kind of therapeutic, because when it happened to me I couldn't get up and walk away, so I'm glad this movie, a harmless thing on a television screen, allowed me to do that, to take back that power. But it tackled the subject in a way we're just not used to seeing. It was uncomfortable, sickening, again horrifying... but that was the point. It did its job and told its story.

Anyway. Please stream Cuties (if you feel comfortable doing so) on Netflix on September 9th. Please give this black director your support; let her tell her story.