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Denies sexualizing child stars in shows

posted 8 months ago by jk90us (7138)
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Schneider denies intentionally sexualizing child stars on Nick shows.

His rep told Variety, “Everything that happened on the shows Dan ran was carefully scrutinized by dozens of involved adults, and approved by the network. If there was an actual problem with the scenes that some people, now years later are ‘sexualizing,’ they would be taken down, but they are not, they are aired constantly all over the world today still, enjoyed by both kids and parents.”

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/dan-schneider-denies-sexualizing-child-actors-nickelodeon-1235943950

Hard to argue with that. Not defending him, but why are people singling him out and not the execs at Nickelodeon who approved everything he did?

[–] samoanjoes (56645) 8 months ago

Not defending him, but why are people singling him out and not the execs at Nickelodeon who approved everything he did?

That's what I was thinking too. They are just as much to blame as him.

[–] jk90us (7138) 8 months ago

But if he was creepy or toxic to the underage actors, then go after him.

But not for the content of the shows. Disney Channel was just as guilty. And some mainstream shows.

Thing is, you put attractive teen actors in roles and some people will “sexualize” it themselves.

And the actors. Look at the countdowns to 18 out there that happened for young teen actors like the Olsen Twins and others.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17735) 7 months ago

"...Look at the countdowns to 18 out there that happened for young teen actors like the Olsen Twins and others."

...And the person who made that is not in jail??

[–] Martoto (5024) 7 months ago

Are you kidding? That kind of thing is still deemed perfectly acceptable by the hypocritical mainstream "non-woke" media.

If they could get away with it, legally, the tabloids would be happy to use AI to create glamour photos of young actors when they turn 18.

[–] jk90us (7138) 7 months ago

For keeping track of when someone turns 18? What’s illegal about that?

[–] sunezno (269) 2 months ago

Sleezy, yes. Illegal, no.

[–] sunezno (269) 2 months ago

But if he was creepy or toxic to the underage actors, then go after him.

Dan was bringing in tons of money. That right there is the primary reason that nobody ever did anything back then. They want more money and fewer scandals. Duh.
And the people being victimized risk losing everything if they speak out.

Also, it's not just one bad guy in a sea of good guys.

As far as the content issues, I'm on the fence about that stuff. On one hand, yeah, anything too sexual absolutely should've been removed by any of the people that had a say, so I can't imagine how they got away with many of the things.

It's fine to have that kind of humor, but there's a time and a place for it. Injecting sexual stuff into media aimed at children is just disgusting, and it clearly is an example of who the writer is as a person.

And sure, obviously there are going to be the gross people out there who will sexualize anything children do, and that's an unfortunate part of humanity. But that's not an excuse to write sexuality into the scenes in the first place.