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This week, the Internet was set aflame over Netflix’s latest release, an award-winning French drama about young girls, simply entitled Cuties (“*Mignonnes*”).It struck a nerve and was the latest example of the yawning gulf between people who watch movies and the obnoxious *poseurs* who write about them. Is this film little more than child pornography *en masquerade*? Is it encouraging or “normalizing” the sexualization of young girls?Or are we overreacting to what is simply a French art house *outrage*? By using so many French words, am I, in fact, making it worse? Edward Dutton and Richard Spencer discuss the reaction to the film and how we can better understand pedophilia and its place in contemporary culture.