"SHOW DOGS" GROOMS CHILDREN FOR SEX ABUSE

WND EXCLUSIVE

'SHOW DOGS' THROWS 'LOG ON FIRE' OF CHILD SEX ABUSE

Filmmaker's recut still leaves 'genital touching' as part of story's narrative

Filmmaker Global Road Entertainment has failed – bigtime – in an attempt to clean up a children’s movie, “Show Dogs,” that originally included in its narrative a pivotal scenario where a character is required to let his genitals be fondled, according to an organization that called out the film earlier for its inclusion of a scene that could be used to groom young children for sex abuse.

That’s because the sequence remains – the anthropomorphized dog detective on the hunt undercover at a dog show is aghast to learn what will happen to him, and then is advised to go to his “happy place” while submitting.

Dawn Hawkins, executive director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, said in a statement Wednesday that the film’s creator, hit by a flood of negative publicity and criticism, had promised to clean up the video aimed at children.

But the company didn’t.

“Global Road Entertainment has betrayed parents and endangered children by its failure to cut scenes normalizing genital touching from its children’s movie,” she said. 

“By sending the message to children that allowing genital touching by adults is rewarding and sexy, ‘Show Dogs’ paves the way for child abusers,” Hawkins said.

The movie already is in theaters, with its “significant story arc normalizing genital touching to child audiences,” her statement said.

She explained the company, following a “firestorm of criticism” about the scenes, had promised to “recut” and re-release the movie.

NCOSE screened it immediately on its second release.

To dismay.

“We strongly advise the parents and caregivers to not take children to this film,” the statement said.

Hawkins continued, “The public took in good faith Global Road Entertainment’s move to recut ‘Show Dogs’ to make it appropriate for children. 

However genital touching of the lead dog character remains a pivotal aspect of the film’s narrative. Apparently, having the film back in theaters in time for the Memorial Day holiday box office was more important than protecting children.

“Even after undergoing a so-called recut, scenes in which a dog must have his private parts touched remain. 

In the course of the genital touching, the dog is uncomfortable and wants it to stop but is told to go to a ‘happy place’ because submitting to genital touching is an essential element of winning the dog show,” Hawkins continued. 

“Later, in a climactic moment at the dog show, the dog submits to genital touching and is rewarded with advancing to the final round of the competition. This achievement is celebrated to the tune of ‘Sexy and I Know It.’

“Children’s movies must be held to a higher standard, and must teach children bodily autonomy, the ability to say ‘no’ and safety, not confusing messages endorsing genital touching. 

The rate of sexual abuse among U.S. children is already estimated to be 20 percent for girls and 8 percent for boys. 

‘Show Dogs’ has thrown another log on that fire. In an industry riddled with sexual harassment and abuse scandals perpetrated against both children and adults, ‘Show Dogs’ is prime evidence of how Hollywood fosters #KidsToo.”

Columnist Elissa Strauss, writing at CNN, said of the situation, “Should this [scenario] have come out before #MeToo turned our communal attention to the ubiquity of sexual abuse and harassment, the inclusion of this plot line would have been regrettable. The fact that it happened afterward is mind-boggling.”

She continued, “Such an oversight shows that, despite all the waking up we’ve done in the past year, there’s still a lot more to do. This is particularly the case when it comes to addressing sexual abuse of children, who’ve largely been shielded from the recent headlines by parents who aren’t ready to expose them to the worst of humankind.

“But the fact that sexual abuse was ever-so-casually played for laughs in a new children’s movie is evidence that this is something we need to directly address with our children – now.”

The live-action film has Max, a talking police dog, infiltrate a dog show to rescue a kidnapped baby panda.

Strauss wrote, “As pointed out by Terina Maldonado – publisher of East Mesa Macaroni Kid, a site about the Arizona town outside Phoenix, and author of a post on the film that first drew attention to the issue – 

these scenes give children the idea that it’s OK for strangers to touch their genitals. And what if they don’t like it? No problem, just think of something nice and calm. 

It’s a message that will ‘groom children to be open to having people touch their privates, even though they don’t want it,’ she wrote.”

http://www.wnd.com/2018/05/kids-movie-throws-log-on-fire-of-child-sex-abuse/

My comments: It takes a very Degenerate person to produce a movie like this for children. It would be better for them to have a Millstone tied around their neck and to be thrown into the sea. (Matthew 18:6)