‘Cuties’ Is Beautifully, and Brutally, Honest About Girlhood

The movie illuminates how social media encourages girls to perform wildly exaggerated versions of womanhood

Meghan Daum
GEN
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8 min readSep 18, 2020

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‘Cuties.’ Photo courtesy of Netflix

Probably the most frequently cited observation about pornography is former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s famous line about “knowing it when you see it.” But what happens…

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Meghan Daum
GEN
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Weekly blogger for Medium. Host of @TheUnspeakPod. Author of six books, including The Problem With Everything. www.theunspeakablepodcast.com www.meghandaum.com