#mignonnes

[motziedapul]

The discourse around the movie Cuties or Mignonnes is so rancid, all because people feel the need to regurgitate the takes of White American men who felt weird feelings about seeing young girls dance onscreen in a Senegalese French immigrant woman's biopic.

It was about her, as a young girl, being torn between the hyper sexualization fed to young girls of the 2000s from American media and her own deeply conservative religious family life which made her own mother suffer. It's about young girls finally being able to be kids instead of being pressured to grow up too early or try to act a certain way because of overwhelming pressure.

The actual film is mostly meant to incite discomfort and sadness. It's remarkable to me how much the voices of angry uncomfortable White American men who felt weird feelings about dancing kids have been amplified over that of the mostly BIPOC women the film resonated with and was made for.

Excuse the rant. I'm tired of people shitting on a movie they never watched on the word of some YouTuber who hated it because it made him feel uncomfortable to see the effects of American media and culture on young women. Because they don't want to acknowledge or look at a reality so many of us lived and still live.

This film reflected my own childhood in many ways. This was a film that I assumed would be taken in good faith instead of being demonized by people who thought agreeing with Ted Cruz was a totally normal thing to do.

In the very least, if you've never watched this film and aren't planning to, don't take the word of White American YouTubers on how you should feel about it. Try to see how BIPOC women -- especially non American ones -- felt about it, how people actually talked about it before it became the centre of a culture war where centrists and right wing lunatics decided to agree on demonizing it.

[bebe-benzenheimer]

[pablolf]

Film Journal

"Cuties" by Maïmouna Doucouré

[luxus-aeterna]

A Sunday in Galveston

[iridessence]

Channeling angels in the new age now…

[boatcats]

What was this?

[ID: A fluffy gray cat is sleeping with her tongue sticking out. She is wiggling her tongue around for reasons that are unclear.]

[dooareyastudy]

tragédie en deux actes

[ivelte]

Etoiles et Pomme

[beatsforbrothels]

Taeko Ohnuki - 4:00 A.M.

[vallerianella]

some late april-june doodles of an alnst au I cooked up w friends ^_^ - pardon the outfit inconsistencies, it started as slotting in ocs into canon charas and then creating roles and stories independently www

[miaestrellabr]

[dabiconcordia]

It Couldn’t Be Done

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done       But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one       Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.

So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin       On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing       That couldn’t be done, and he did it!

Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;       At least no one ever has done it;” But he took off his coat and he took off his hat       And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.

With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,       Without any doubting or quiddit, He started to sing as he tackled the thing       That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,       There are thousands to prophesy failure, There are thousands to point out to you one by one,       The dangers that wait to assail you.

But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,       Just take off your coat and go to it; Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing       That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it. By Edgar Albert Guest  

[culturefrancaise]

Expression écrite !

Racontez-moi un truc qui vous a fait sourire ou qui vous a fait chaud au cœur dernièrement.

[tshifty]

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[luxus-aeterna]

Went for an October stroll through the French Quarter with the New Orleans Costume History Enthusiasts.

[iridessence]

Waving on the silver screen