Uproar Continues After Netflix Apologizes For ‘Inappropriate Artwork’ but Doesn’t Cancel Show ‘Sexualizing’ Kids

The backlash against Netflix and their new movie “Cuties” has been swift after a poster depicted four 11-year old girls wearing revealing outfits and posing in various sexually suggestive positions.

The name of the movie is currently trending on Twitter with over 80k tweets. People on both sides of the political aisle have expressed their outrage.

It is so revealing that the first major @netflix original to centre young Black girls hinges on explicitly sexualising 11 year old children. Whether it’s acting or music, a sexualised image is too often the price of mainstream success for Black women & girls. Disgraceful.

There are countless stories @netflix could have chosen to tell about young girls going on adventures, supporting one another, and being children. But with Cuties @netflix teaches girls to view themselves as sex objects. And that’s not remotely acceptable.

— Sister Outrider (@ClaireShrugged) August 20, 2020

Netflix has issued an apology, but only for the “inappropriate artwork” and has not yet decided to remove the movie from their upcoming lineup. They claimed that the artwork was “not OK, nor was it representative of this French film which won an award at Sundance.”

We're deeply sorry for the inappropriate artwork that we used for Mignonnes/Cuties. It was not OK, nor was it representative of this French film which won an award at Sundance. We’ve now updated the pictures and description.

— Netflix (@netflix) August 20, 2020

Many are still upset, calling for the cancellation of the film, directed by first-timer Maïmouna Doucouré. Some have wondered why it has an NC-17 and mature rating.

It's not just the artwork

The whole movie is not ok

Cancel it

Put it in the trashhh

— Danish is not a weeb.???????????????? (@Doonishsan) August 20, 2020

How did this earn an award at Sundance?

— Alan Wilkins (@AlanMWilkins) August 20, 2020

You think it’s the artwork we’re upset about?!?!

— Jill ???????? (@JRandall79) August 20, 2020

It's rated M and sexualizes young girls, not simply the clothes, if that isn't creepy to you seek help.

— Piper – coCreator of Peregrine: WOTF on Indiegogo! (@fyzzgiggidy) August 20, 2020

From the NY Post:

“Eleven-year-old Amy starts to rebel against her conservative family’s traditions when she becomes fascinated with a free-spirited dance crew,” the film’s description reads on the site.

However, Metro reports that the original summary was much more salacious: “Amy, 11, becomes fascinated with a twerking dance crew. Hoping to join them, she starts to explore her femininity, defying her family’s traditions.”

A pair of conservative activists called the film “Islamophobic” and “absolutely haram” as the main character, Amy, is a Senegalese Muslim girl who lives in a poor neighborhood in France.

Your film is Islamophobic.

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 20, 2020

Absolutely haram

— Jack Posobiec ???????? (@JackPosobiec) August 20, 2020