Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - "CUTIES" CONTROVERSY!
Aired: 2020-09-14
Duration: 04:05


=== Controversial Children's Content (03:17) ===

[00:00:00]  Talk about children. I haven't seen that film, or I think the film is called Cuties.
[00:00:05]  Everybody's talking about that.
[00:00:07]  If it's not real, they're using children to do twerking, stuff like that.
[00:00:12]  Is that...
[00:00:14]  Because I don't even want to see it, to be honest.
[00:00:16]  So, I don't know what to say about it.
[00:00:19]  Well, I mean, I've heard about the controversy.
[00:00:22]  I have... I mean, like yourself, I try not to eat food That's got tire tracks on it.
[00:00:29]  And I try not to watch content that is just appalling and horrifying.
[00:00:34]  And I think it's a Congolese woman who came and wrote this movie and directed this movie.
[00:00:41]  I don't know, man.
[00:00:43]  I mean, you've got people in the States calling for investigations into Netflix for distribution of child pornography.
[00:00:52]  And, you know, a guy I quite like, Scott Adams, he's a real free speech guy.
[00:00:58]  A real free speech guy.
[00:00:59]  And he watched some of it and he said, yeah, I'm a real free speech guy.
[00:01:02]  It's pretty hard to shock me, but somebody needs to go to jail for this.
[00:01:05]  And so I think it's absolutely appalling.
[00:01:08]  And it just shows you like the chain of, like the echo chamber, right?
[00:01:12]  That there's nobody... In that whole process, right?
[00:01:16]  This whole process of, you know, you write a script, then you get your funding, then you cast your actors, and you get your distributors, and you go to film festivals, and then you sign a deal with Netflix.
[00:01:26]  Like this whole chain of people.
[00:01:29]  It doesn't seem like there was anyone who said, wait a second here.
[00:01:34]  Something's wrong. We are hyper-sexualizing 11-year-old children.
[00:01:38]  Now, the fact that my daughter is 11 is making this one hit pretty close to home.
[00:01:42]  But no one along the line says, hmm, no.
[00:01:46]  And of course, the Obamas are neck deep in with Netflix and other people and so on.
[00:01:50]  So it just shows they seem to be genuinely surprised that anyone could have a problem with this.
[00:01:59]  And I don't know, maybe it's the Congolese woman.
[00:02:02]  Maybe they say, well, it's not gross if it's diversity hired.
[00:02:07]  I mean, I don't know. I don't know what, because I don't know anyone who would get involved in anything like that.
[00:02:13]  I mean, you've got parents who are putting their kids up for these auditions.
[00:02:17]  Can you imagine what these auditions are?
[00:02:19]  Put on this bikini and twerk?
[00:02:21]  Yeah. At what point did the parents say, hell no!
[00:02:24]  What are you doing? I thought we were selling some toothpaste here and you've got my woman shaking her ass like Cardi B on a trampoline.
[00:02:32]  Like, no thank you. Right?
[00:02:34]  So, like, nobody at the film festivals is like, I'm not putting that on the screen.
[00:02:40]  What are you, crazy? We can't normalize this.
[00:02:42]  This is horrifying. And the whole step from conception to it flowing into people's homes.
[00:02:53]  And nobody, it seems, raised the alarm along the way, which tells you just what a predatory echo chamber these people are in.
[00:03:04]  And to quote Mike Cernovich, you know, if it's a choice between cuties and Sharia law...
[00:03:10]  And then he quoted some Arabic phrase that I didn't understand, but I think I knew which side he came down on that.
[00:03:16]  So yeah, I don't know.

=== Big, Complicated Movie Effort (00:47) ===

[00:03:17]  I don't know. It really is a different universe.
[00:03:19]  It's a different moral universe that this whole thing...
[00:03:22]  Like, this isn't just someone who filmed it in her house with a phone, right?
[00:03:27]  I mean, I've made a movie before.
[00:03:29]  I'm not just the documentaries.
[00:03:30]  I've made a fiction movie and so on, right?
[00:03:34]  So it's really a big, complicated, expensive, massive team effort.
[00:03:40]  And nobody on the set is taking pictures and leaking them and saying, what the hell is happening?
[00:03:45]  This is not good.
[00:03:46]  Like the whole thing just kind of barrels and slopes along and doesn't seem like anybody raised an objection.
[00:03:54]  I don't know how a society functions.
[00:03:57]  When you have lots of people saying, this is beautiful, high-moving art, and other people are like, this is child pornography and people have to go to jail.