Janice Turner on safeguarding manages to name everyone succinctly in one column

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Cuties, Exist Loudly, Stonewall, NSPCC, Bergdorf, Tatchell, MAP...

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8c46aad6-f461-11ea-9de6-a6e4d4016fb7?shareToken=e196d311d52618102baf33fd9f6a2fbd

This is why she wins writing awards. Gets so much across in a short space (waves to Janice! 👋)

That's an excellent article again from Janice. The Times have been covering this issue for some years now and have led the way for the mainstream media. I am far more bothered about the systematic silencing of women's voices by the left wing press (especially the Guardian and the BBC).
So glad I took out a Times subscription when I did and very pleased to see the increased understanding of their readership about the current levels of systematic abuse of women and children.

@MillyMollyFarmer

I'm not willing to write off an entire publication

I’m not suggesting anyone does. But we don’t need to fall over ourselves praising The Times or Janice even, because in context they’re not much different to any other MSM, or journalist who avoids difficult topics.

I agree we don't need to fall over ourselves to praise the Times or any other paper. I haven't seen that, though, only pp saying it is a good paper compared to nearly all the MSM and covers views and news that other publications are too woke for. I do think some of their columnists are utter bellends and I don't agree with everything they print by any means.

On the other hand I think Janice Turner is great and would definitely fall over myself to praise her to the skies! No one is perfect but journalists with integrity should be valued, especially when they are willing to take on powerful opponents like the trans lobby and the MAPs.

Nothing in that review changes my idea that the guy is normalising 'child sexuality.'

This is powder-keg provocation in an age so terrified of child sexuality

The film is more an experiment in chutzpah than a slice of social realism.

It showed four pre-teen girls striking “sexy” poses on a dance stage, wearing shiny crop tops, knee pads and booty shorts.

But they also know how their immaturity gives them a treacherous power

They’re twerking terrors of the pavement.

Sexuality, chutzpah, sexy, power, terrors.

If he's trying to maintain that the film lifts the lid on sexualising children as a scandal, he appears to be describing it as something completely opposite.

@FloralBunting

But they also know how their immaturity gives them a treacherous power, as we see when a security guard tries to hustle them out for trespassing and they brand him as a child molester. These certainly aren’t your neighbourhood’s average polite children. They’re twerking terrors of the pavement.

Treacherous power? This whole section is suggesting that these girls 'know what they're doing' and have power over male adults. This review is a disgrace, and the attitude it demonstrates is exactly what those of us who have complained are talking about. Frankly, I think the suggestion to check his hard drive sounds reasonable.

Yes, that whole section gave me flashbacks of Hubert Hubert being convinced that Lolita was trying to seduce him, aware of her "powers" over adult men.

So in other words this film shows how eleven year old children through tutoring of the internet become sexual predators? Not at all that they are groomed to become victims of the patriarchy?

He appears to be thrillingly glamorising these children.

"It was not just in Britain that pro paedophile campaigners were active. This petition in France called for abolition of the age of consent...

Not many female names in that list."

Simone de Beauvoir is not a trivial name though. She who wrote The Second Sex. Just saying.

That list is like a list of the pomo/post-structuralist theorists who started all this queer theory/critical theory stuff off in the first place.

No surprise that the whole world view of the woke is founded on abuse.

I am a bit sad to see SdB's name on there, though.

Cuties, Netflix review: a provocative powder-keg for an age terrified of child sexuality

I honestly can't get over this heading, given the film is meant to be criticising the sexual exploitation of children.

Datun his words are dangerously close to all those men who claim that "the little girl knew what she was doing, she came onto me, she is the powerful mature sexual one who seduced me"

@Thedisco2000

Datun his words are dangerously close to all those men who claim that "the little girl knew what she was doing, she came onto me, she is the powerful mature sexual one who seduced me"

Indeed. The word 'terrified' appears to deliberately paint people concerned with the exploitation of children as pearl clutching hysterics.

In a review of a film about child sexual exploitation.

It's spectacularly blind.

In letting this play out, Doucouré is underlining an obvious male fantasy of pre-pubescence: to fast-forward towards being treated as desirable.

Fixed that for you Tim of the Telegraph.

I honestly can't get over this heading

Me neither. It’s incredibly gross. What a creep.

Here is another review, which concludes:

So that's what Cuties is. A boring, aimless, not well thought out, art house film about young girls rebelling against society. If not for the pedo controversy I doubt anyone would talk or care about it whatsoever.

twitter.com/psa_sitch/status/1304596829712121858?s=21

A bit different to top-notch, electric and joyous.

She was asking for it.
Look what you made me do.
If you didn't annoy me/Tweet that/say that I wouldn't have to hit you.
That skirt (despite the fact you're 14 years old) is a distraction to male members of staff and male students.
In any rape trial: what were you wearing, where were you, what time was it, what did you do/say that implied consent?
Female people holding x views is the root of male violence.

It is an every day social normal in our society for male people to have excuses to avoid taking responsibility for unacceptable behaviour, particularly violent and sexual behaviour, that female people can't acceptably use. And equally normal for female people to be socialised into the belief of responsibility for male people's behaviour, in a way that male people aren't expected to for females.

@Datun

Here is another review, which concludes:

So that's what Cuties is. A boring, aimless, not well thought out, art house film about young girls rebelling against society. If not for the pedo controversy I doubt anyone would talk or care about it whatsoever.

twitter.com/psa_sitch/status/1304596829712121858?s=21

A bit different to top-notch, electric and joyous.

I hesitate to offer a clear sighted assessment of a man who thinks that preteens being sexualized is electric and joyous, but, you know...

Safe Schools Alliance twitter thread, giving further information on the many issues raised in Janice Turners, Times article today.

We are really concerned to see so many people calling bigot, which kind of proves Janice's point.

Sorry, late to this thread once again.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1304685410967269376.html

Yeah I don't get it. If the whole film is supposed to be about criticising the sexualisation of kids then 'a provocative powder-keg for an age terrified of child sexuality' doesn't make any sense at all?!

I saw a clip on Twitter from Cuties of one of the girls in a bathroom taking a picture of her vulva and posting it online while a man was banging on the door, but I have no idea of the context so it's hard to judge what the fuck is going on there.

Thank you for talking about this review of this film! I saw it yesterday and couldn't believe it!

I can’t access the article; could someone copy and paste or do a share token?

@zanahoria

I have not watched Cuties, nor wish to, but Janice has come at it from the right angle, is it right to ask child actors to perform in this way?

I'd say the obvious answer is no, but I think there is a huge blind spot on this topic for people. If we can ask this about child actors, it suggests that it could also be a valid question to ask about other performers. The issues are aren't identical, but we could ask, what does it mean as when a job, like acting, requires so many young women to act in sexually exploitative roles to get work? Does that kind of work have an effect on the adult actors?

People are so uncomfortable with thinking about that sort of thing it's like they pretend that kind of concern is just non-existent.

They have Melanie Phillips too, who I usually can't read without getting annoyed. Same for me Errol She makes Breitbart readers look like Woke lefties.

However, I do like the variety.

The Telegraph is shedding readers like a desert cat sheds its fur in June. This review is a perfect example of why. Its comment section is full of people saying they have cancelled their subscription.

Does that kind of work have an effect on the adult actors?

I’ve often thought of this about all the rape and aggressive sex scenes women have to endure as actresses. I’m actively trying to avoid sex scenes this year at all, because I just feel like we are exposed to too much all the time. Yes it’s a part of life but it’s too much and rape scenes are too distressing for me to watch at all. I don’t want to watch women having to act that out anymore.