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Bare bellies

My 16 year old daughter dances competitions. In addition, one dance group presents itself slightly more civilized than the other. While some sort of school uniform is the norm for one team, the other team wears little concealing outfits – each with its own style. Shorts, bare bellies, I’ve seen everything pass by. Kind of like on the movie poster from Cuties So. Shouldn’t they do that anymore because it’s food for pedophiles? Nonsense!

Too challenging

In all those years I once saw a dance group that made me a bit uncomfortable. “If our girls got that choreography, I would have called the teacher for a moment and asked if it could be done a little less,” I said to the mother of my daughter’s best friend. She nodded in agreement. It was really too challenging in our eyes. The dancers were really young and made a few gestures that wouldn’t look out of place in many an 18+ bedroom. I was also shocked by my own thoughts. These were children. Not yet engaged in sex at all. Why then did I make that connection?

Open-mindedness

And that’s where it goes wrong. That we look with adult eyes at what children do and sometimes see sex in it. My youngest is six and is on TikTok. She is occasionally doing dances in the room that seem quite adult, but for her it is ‘just’ a dance. Let’s keep it that way. By reacting hysterically and forbidding her to dance, we pollute her open-mindedness. Twitch, like the girls in Cuties doing can be sexual. However, it is not if a child performs it.

Strand

Pedophiles could certainly drool at the movie poster of Cuties. But if you worry about that, you shouldn’t go to the beach with your daughter and let her run around in a bikini or bathing suit. And then please put the shorts away too, because they are just as naked. Oh, is it in the poses the girls take on the movie poster? Well, check out an average dance competition anywhere in the world. There you see this. Young girls imitate adult women. That has nothing to do with sex.

Disproportionate

Nauseating, that’s what the movie poster with the four girls in shorts with bare bellies is called. I would like to use that word for completely different things, not for a photo of a dance group. Society has become hypersensitive, it seems. It is the order of the day to blow things up disproportionately. And if you shout loud enough, you will get the attention. And then Netflix removes the poster and, if it is up to the indignant mob, also the award-winning film.

Middle finger

A few weeks ago, Audi was still under fire for a supposedly sexist advertisement of a girl leaning against a car with a banana in her hands. The image would be sexually suggestive. Bananas and sports cars are about male lust, it seems. I did not know. Audi panicked through the dust, because that seems like the only thing you can do in such a case. To apologize. Limiting the damage. Companies should turn their backs more and raise a middle finger.

Narrow minded

Netflix really knows the criticism is absurd. But saying that is like adding fuel to the fire. And so more and more people with an overdose of time and a very loud voice get their way. Just stop seeing sex in things that have nothing to do with sex. It comes across as quite frustrated, frankly. By imposing your narrow straitjacket on dancing girls, you limit their expressiveness. Bah, how adults are sometimes outrageously conservative.

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