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Sep 12, 2020 14 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Canceling Netflix was easy.

Nicole and I have cancelled Netflix today because of their decision to put Cuties on their platform and then market the movie in an incredibly irresponsible way.

#CancelNetflix
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This movie sexualizes young girls in provocative outfits and dance numbers, but according to the director, the point of the movie is that popular culture is sexualizing young girls through media.
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I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment while thoroughly disagreeing with her tactic and method. She has become the evil she supposedly critiques.

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The director says inspiration for the movie came from attending a neighborhood gathering where she "witnessed a group of young girls on a stage dancing in 'a very sexually revealing way...'" She wondered if these children even knew what they were imitating in these moments..."
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This doesn't surprise me because I've seen this in my community and on social media- through pictures and videos posted by proud parents...leaving me to wonder do these children know what they are mimicking...

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AND why people applaud and encourage young children to dress and dance in sexually suggestive ways!?
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As easy as it would be to say this problem is with those people or this director or the marketers at Netfilx, the truth is that the very inspiration for this film comes from the culture all around us- the one you and I participate in right now here on social media...

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the one your children are being introduced to on YouTube in the other room...

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Canceling Netflix in this moment might make us feel self-righteous and "a protector of the children," but we have played a role in creating this current culture.... there is so much more to be done in building something new...

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For the same reasons I cancelled Netflix, I'd cancel a subscription to whatever company puts Dance Moms and Toddlers and Tiaras on the air if I could...

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I'd keep my daughter from seeing the outlandish standards of fitness and "photoshop beauty" on all of the magazines at the grocery store checkout if I could...

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If I could, I would communicate to every young child that God loves them just as they are, so much so He was willing to die for them.

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I'd let them know that the love and acceptance they crave and that people will try to use and take advantage of them- that it can be freely had in Jesus not because it's cheap, but because He bought it at a high price.

Canceling Netflix was easy. Posting this was easy...
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Building a culture that looks like the loving and accepting and moral and gracious and safe kingdom of God for our children to grow up in is much, much harder.

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