In this video, the speaker urges viewers not to take children to the animated film Show Dogs. While noting the film’s poor reviews, the primary concern is the alleged scene where dogs participating in a dog show have their genitals touched, and are told they must endure this to succeed. The speaker argues that because the dogs speak English and are anthropomorphized, children may internalize a lesson that they must stay quiet about unwanted sexual contact. This, the speaker claims, mirrors grooming tactics used by sexual predators and could normalize harmful silence among current, past, or future survivors of sexual violence. The video calls for a boycott and asks viewers to share the warning to protect children.
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Let's talk about the movie Show Dogs. It is out in theaters and I'm asking people, do not take your children to this movie. First of all, it's getting horrible reviews, so that's gonna help deter people from taking their children to this movie. That's a positive, it's getting horrible reviews. But I want to be very specific on why I'm asking you not to take children to this movie, and that is the potential harm this movie could cause both to future potential survivors of sexual violence and/or past and/or current survivors of sexual violence. Here's what happens in the movie, and I've not seen the movie, but I have double-checked this on multiple sources to make sure this is accurate. The movie depicts dogs in a role where they're being judged as part of a dog show. In that process, their genitals are being touched, and they do not like this And they are taught that you got to go through with this to get what you want, to get where you want to go. You have to put up with this. Look, these are dogs that speak human English. Let's be very clear. And when you have a movie that projects animated creatures, animals, as being human-like, children connect with them like they're them. They connect with their stories, they connect with experiences, and they take lessons about human life From the dogs, in fact, that's often the story, right? Toy Story and others. The goal is for you to relate so much with the characters that you take home a lesson from these, in that case, inanimate objects, but in this case, animals. So what we're doing is you're teaching children lessons through the use of these characters that are lovable and they like. So the lesson there is a horrific one. It's one that could teach children to stay quiet, to shut up if this has been done to you or is done to you in the future. This kind of mentality of shut up is also what those who groom children so that they can be predatory against children sexually— this is the same kind of manipulation and language psychology that they will use to groom children. The last thing you want a movie that you take your children to do is to groom those children for sexual molestation, for being sexually molested. It is a horrible message, or potentially to ever use that language with another child where they could touch a child inappropriately and say, we just need to be quiet. You don't want to teach this lesson. It can be incredibly dangerous and harmful. Please let people know, do not take your children to this movie. This one lesson alone is so harmful that it's important we have this conversation. So this lesson does not get out through the medium of the movie Show Dogs. So important. Please share and let others know.
