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[Dill]

(09-15-2020, 05:05 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I watched a breakdown/discussion video from a youtuber I follow who I trust isn't lying or misrepresenting what she is seeing and she seemed generally disgusted by the volume of sexually explicit scenes in the movie. She even shows a variety of the scenes during her discussion. I also watched the "finale" dance scene on youtube and...jeez...

I get what the movie makers were trying to do. Those sexually explicit scenes are supposed to make you uncomfortable because it's an 11 year old girl doing it. You're supposed to see it as a failing of society that little girls have this pressure to be sexy placed upon them at such a young age. 
But the people who don't feel uncomfortable during those scenes are exactly the problem haha. 

I hate reacting to something I haven't personally seen, which is why I put so many qualifying statements in my post, but I just...I have absolutely no desire to watch 11 year olds twerking, even if it is portrayed as a bad thing in the movie.

I must officially be old now, projecting concern over something I haven't seen XD.

I don't think the film showed a lot of pressure to be sexy.  Ready access of pornography to children (mostly via cell phones) at the moment they reach puberty and are beginning to identify with their gender and work through identity issues was definitely a "cause", along with the numbness of most adults to that pornography and who is watching it.

Ironically, the girls don't want to be seen as "sluts" and "hos"--they have internalized much shame and censure already--and don't really understand much about sex and consequences. 

To my horror, I once saw a youtube video of 6-graders twerking. Tall heavy girls and short boys. That scared the bejeezus out of me as I tried to imagine how the country got this way and the decisions these kids would make as young adults. The horse is out of the barn. Should we close the door or look for the horse?