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Re:Moving from YouTube to PeerTube by pjc50 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @11:26AM (#24224222)
> How do you feel about the oversexualization of children in such Netflix programs such as Cuties. Are you willing to defend the most innocent and vulnerable of society? I highly doubt it.

I've seen that go by on Twitter and am not impressed .. should I call for it to be cancelled?

(Mind you, a stock feminist answer might be that the Netflix series is just a representation of a whole rotten child beauty pageant culture which in turn derives from the sexist adult beauty pageant culture, and that nobody should be sexualised without their consent - which cannot appropriately be given by people who are underage.)

Re:Moving from YouTube to PeerTube by kbenson on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:39PM (#24225111)
> and that nobody should be sexualised without their consent - which cannot appropriately be given by people who are underage

Except that we expect parents to be stewards for our children and give consent on their behalf, except in cases where we've decided that parents cannot be trusted to do so and we outlaw that activity for children (sex, alcohol, etc), or that consent does not fully convey the situation (a parent forcing an unwilling child to get a haircut is not viewed the same as a child forcing an unwilling child to play a full contact sport which is also not viewed the same as a parent forcing a child to get into a fistfight on the street).

Where do parents sexualizing their children for television fall into this? I dunno. If they were doing it for an individual that came over and paid in person, we'd have some real probing questions, but it's okay when it's on TV for a national audience?