Summary
Remember when everyone freaked the f*** out about that French movie on Netflix? No? Well everybody, let us introduce you to: Cuties. In this episode, Hannah and Maia discuss Maïmouna Doucouré’s quaint 2020 coming-of-age film and the all out moral panic that it spawned on the internet - which culminated in a real life obscenity lawsuit against Netflix. Discussions include: the thin line between depiction and endorsement, America’s many moral triggers and paradoxical attitude towards sex, the weaponizing of children as a political tool, the cultural consequences of Jeffrey Epstein, and Netflix… actually... defending… art?
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Sources:
Caira Conner, “Watching the Outrage Over Cuties as a Survivor of P*dophilia” The Atlantic (2020).
Maria Cramer, “Netflix Is Charged in Texas With Promoting Lewdness in ‘Cuties’” The New York Times (2020).
Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Moral Panics: Culture, Politics, and Social Construction” Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 20 (1994).
Zack Sharf, “‘Cuties’ Director Speaks Out Amid Backlash Film Sexualizes Children, Netflix Stands by It” Indie Wire (2020).
Alissa Wilkinson and Aja Romano, How Cuties, a French movie on Netflix, became part of America’s culture war” Vox (2020).
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| 0:00.0 | Hannah just got good news. |
| 0:03.4 | My good news is that Taylor Swift is coming to Toronto, which I was really holding out hope for. |
| 0:09.0 | And as we record this episode, I'm currently in line to register for pre-sale. |
| 0:14.7 | Her dad texted her out of context. |
| 0:16.8 | She's coming. |
| 0:17.9 | I was like, ooh. |
| 0:19.7 | Bless him. |
| 0:20.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:23.3 | So it's exciting for me. |
| 0:26.0 | I kind of like freaked out like a small child. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm excited for you, Queen. |
| 0:28.2 | Thank you. You deserve this. |
| 0:29.0 | I've never seen her live. |
| 0:30.9 | This is the perfect concert to see her. |
| 0:32.8 | She's going through all the songs. |
| 0:34.2 | And if some bitch gets a ticket that hasn't been following Taylor Swift for as long as I |
| 0:38.6 | have since they were a kid, I'm going to fight her. There was probably a scream heard around the |
| 0:45.0 | country when the news dropped. Yes, everybody's freaking out six dates in Toronto because I don't |
| 0:51.5 | think she's going anywhere else in Canada, but it means you have to |
| 0:54.6 | fight with everybody in the same, in the whole country. Yeah, it's very scary when there's like some huge celebrity that you need to see and it's like the tickets sell out in like 0.01 milliseconds. And the thing with this is like, I feel like there's a lot of people that are going that are like, yeah, I hear it's a great show. It sounds like a great experience and I'm like, |
| 1:11.7 | eh, eh, back of the line a great show. It sounds like a great experience. |
| 1:11.2 | And I'm like, eh, eh, back of the line. I don't care about you thinking that this sounds like someone would be good to see live. I'm like, I deserve it. I've earned it. This is your life's work. This is like just very important to me. And it's embarrassing, but I don't care. Who cares? |
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