> For me, I know that at least the film is a piece of fiction with strong influences from reality — but pageants and kids twerking in mini skirts is a real thin

> For me, I know that at least the film is a piece of fiction with strong influences from reality — but pageants and kids twerking in mini skirts is a real thing. You can’t blame Cuties for existing. This is a pretty thin defense. Honestly, child beauty pageants should probably end, too; I can think of no more attractive a venue for a pedophile to gravitate towards, and I can think of no stronger way to convince a young girl that her only value is her appearance. It's basically objectification practice sessions. The movie is a problem because it uses the veneer of a story to normalize the distribution of material featuring sexualized children. The plot or moral of the story don't matter, because the subsection of the audience that most good parents are worried about are just going to fast forward that anyway, aren't they? Meanwhile, we have yet another divide in the unending culture war, this time forcing you to be either on the side of people who defend the distribution of materials that sexualize children, or to be on the side of the so-called Evil Right Wingers who worry that this is yet another piece in a strategy to normalize pedophilia (as pedosexuality) over the course of a generation or so. It's odd that you can't just be a normal person who thinks it's gross and borderline abusive to have 11-year-old girls twerking on the TV.