Don’t mess with Texas, people! A Texas grand jury has indicted Netflix over their ‘Cuties’ film which has caused an uproar and boycott due to the sexualization of young children.
Washington Post Sonny Bunch described the film:
“Cuties” follows an 11-year-old Senegalese immigrant to France named Amy (Fathia Youssouf) who finds herself repulsed by her traditional Muslim upbringing. But the alternative, the movie suggests, is kind of horrifying in a different way: She falls in with a group of fellow 11-year-olds who are working on a hypersexualized dance routine so they can enter a dance competition. They get their ideas from the Internet, learning to twerk and gyrate and simulate sex acts.
It’s sick. It’s grotesque. You feel, for lack of a better word, ick watching it.
It’s about time an indictment came down for the brazen and disgusting film. Netflix must be held accountable if they are hosting and streaming criminal content.
The indictment charged:
Netflix, INC., hereinafter styled Defendant, …DID THEN AND THER
knowingly promote visual material which depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 years of age at the time the visual material was created, which appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value, …
Netflix, Inc. indicted by grand jury in Tyler Co., Tx for promoting material in Cuties film which depicts lewd exhibition of pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 yrs of age which appeals to the prurient interest in sex #Cuties #txlege pic.twitter.com/UJ1hY8XJ2l
— Matt Schaefer (@RepMattSchaefer) October 6, 2020
A grand jury in Tyler County, Texas, has indicted the company on the charge of “promotion of lewd visual material depicting a child”. The indictment claims Cuties appeals to the “prurient interest in sex” and the material holds “no serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value”.
A Netflix representative told PA: “Cuties is a social commentary against the sexualisation of young children. This charge is without merit and we stand by the film.”
The film became a target of protesters after Netflix admitted it had used “inappropriate artwork” to market it on the streaming platform. Netflix subsequently became the subject of more wide-ranging attacks and a campaign for subscribers to cancel their membership.
It is unreal that Netflix continues to defend the film by saying it sexualizes children in order to stand against the sexualization of children. That is a piss poor defense.
Hopefully this is just the first of many indictments.
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