Is making and distributing Cuties a federal crime?

Published September 11, 2020 7:22pm ET



On Wednesday, Netflix released Cuties. Overnight, #cancelNetflix began trending on Twitter because of the content of the adorably named movie, which the New Yorker described as a film about a young girl’s “defiance” of the “patriarchal order.”

Apparently, 11-year-old children dancing in graphic and extremely sexual ways, including simulating intercourse, writhing around in short shorts, and fondling their genital areas, is somehow illustrative of fighting the patriarchy. How is sexualizing young girls fighting the patriarchy?

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