Next time a company fires someone for old tweets or facebook posts because they HAD to "protect their brand..."

Just remember Netflix was willing to lose money and take the heat over "Cuties" so they could pump images of 11 year old girls doing this into every home in America:

For people saying "it was art" smoking pot artistically still gets you high, drinking a 12 pack artistically still gets you drunk, and sexualizing 11 year old girls for the sake of "art" using gratuitous close-ups is still sexualizing 11 year old girls using gratuitous close-ups.

Someone gets shot in a movie... but the bullets aren't real.
Someone is killed in a movie...they don't really die.
Someone is a Nazi in a movie... they aren't a Nazi in real life

If you can depict evil without doing the evil that's ok, but you can't DO evil so you can show it...

I can't murder someone so I can show how bad murder is.
I can't rob someone so I can show how bad theft is.

And you can't have an 11 year old girl do the things shown in cuties so you show how bad it is, without asking them to do things which are genuinely sexual.

You can't describe your way out of the charge of sexualizing an 11 year old by saying "it was done for storytelling reasons" anymore then you can describe your way out of murder by saying "Judge, I killed a man to film it and make a movie to show people how bad murder is."

The point here is you can show evil in a movie so long as you don't actually DO the evil you are showing. You can't actually DO evil so you can film it and show it.

There is no way to film these scenes without sexualizing these girls. You have to DO the evil to make this film.

Here is an excellent thread on this. I highly recommend it: https://twitter.com/fuehrerking/status/1304197761064144896?s=20

Here is another thread on it. More disturbing footage, I urge caution, but it makes the point with a sledgehammer:

https://twitter.com/GhostJim4/status/1303771909356650496?s=20

One more thing:

Jodi Foster PRETENDED to be a prostitute in Taxi Driver, They didn't have her actually turn tricks so they could film it. And, in the movie when a teen prostitute tries to prostitute herself to someone, the person won't let her. https://twitter.com/PhilanthropyGal/status/1304144273470828545?s=19

This kind of ugly blurring of lines is brought to you by Queer Theory.