pentyne posted:

It's also a sad reality the foreign nature of the film and the race of the actresses are certainly a factor.

Many comparisons have been made to shows like Dance Moms and other reality pageant shows that depict a culture that places extreme importance on the percieved attractiveness of female children for the purposes of competition. The southern belle pageant culture is constantly described in terms like "wholesome" and "harmless"

I would go so far as to say raising female children up in a practice by where they are rigourously judged for their appearance and perfomance from age 5 and up is vastly more harmful to children then anything this movie could ever do.