Well as most of you know, a few weeks ago Netflix released highly questionable promotional material for the film “Cuties” and received considerable backlash for it. Well it has released, and from clips I have seen floating around, it’s about as bad as we thought. I, like most people am not against raising awareness of an issue like child exploitation and sexualization of children, but it does seem like this has gone the wrong way about it doing it.

I might just be a little too forgiving, but I am willing to give the director the benefit of the doubt that she had good intentions in the creation of the film, but I cannot myself support the direction she took in actually meeting that vision. 11 year olds dancing like Cardi B in her WAP music video is not the way to spread awareness about an issue, especially not in a fiction work. I’m not one to be a moral Puritan, and most of the time I don’t care what people want to do with their lives as long as they aren’t hurting anyone else, but Cuties has some blatant red flags and blaring problems with its execution and at least accidentally functions as severe pedobait.