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Sunday, September 19th, 2021 4:18 PM

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Imdb is taking a political stand ?

I wrote a review on the Netflix show Sex Education, at the time it did not occur to me that it would be such a big deal, as I am not from the U.S. How touchy the subject was occured to me after my review was declined.

I did not attack anyone in particular but just called the show a bit shallow for limiting the life of teenagers to a very narrow view of sexual pleasure seeking individuals plus called the show out in pushing a very American agenda of gender identity.

I explained that limiting anything to a very singular topic diminishes the quality of any show.

So I gave the show a low rating review.

There was no explanation just the fact that my review was declined. I thought that maybe the language was a bit harsh or maybe my grammar was bad, so I worked over the review and posted it with careful phrasing. It shocked me to find it being declined again, especially since I have reviewed multiple titles with a much sloppier and also at times vulgar language. All of them were accepted. They were titles that also dealt with very controversial topics but they were not current or as popular ones. Now I have to assume that IMDB is either taking a very political stand here regarding gender politics (which is none of their business as a data collection site) or is simply deleting bad reviews from specific popular shows. This really turned my stomach and I have to say, although I really enjoy the very reliable star rating, I cannot accept a data collection site removing reviews on their own whims and political climates.

No idea why my post is marked as solved but still here the review:

The series revolves around Otis, a teenage high school student struggling to balance his sexual urges, his nerdy awkwardness and the fact that he is being analyzed by his mother who happens to be a sex therapist. This circumstance ultimately creates the opportunity for him to step up in his high school scene as an advice giver for sexual frustrations. A circumstance created together with the female protagonist Maeve, a tomboy smart tough girl who wants to make some quick money. What this leads to is a therapy high school toilet stall in which students relay their sexual encounters to Otis in order to receive good advice. The premise is so far so good and one is ready to delve deeply into the very fascinating stage of everyone's very personal life of sexual self discovery. This could have been the case, instead what is given is a lot of over-exaggerated sexual imagery of high school teenagers doing sexual acts that border the obscene. There are also a lot of stereotypes that people will recognize which have been established by bad American high school comedies. There are the "nerds", meaning people who have little to no sexual encounters to which the protagonist belongs to, there is the sexually repressed christian family and there is the popular clique that openly has sex on school property miraculously undisturbed . And of course the christian family members have been repressing homosexual feelings all along, all so the agenda of giving the christian church the middle finger can be achieved. This aspect wont be lost on anyone but this revelation has been done to death and at this point is more of a low blow rather than an interesting criticism on contradicting religious values. Nevertheless my critique point is not only the over-exaggerated sex, the stereotypical characters or the blatantly obvious agenda pushing. The series is rather shallow except for the main cast consisting of Otis and Maeve. The rest seems to behave erratically and in all manners of aimlessly ignorant ways with the aim of becoming the new focal point for the "sex therapy stall". Writers seem often to forget that even teenagers have depth and potential to develop in all kinds of interesting ways to drive a story forward and most of the time aren't driven by pure lust or gender politics. It could have been way better than it is, but instead it is what it is which is average.the show is shallow

Also saying something is clashing with a very long list of criteria or guidelines is not helpful when you decline a review.

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3 years ago

Hi canis2222 -

I encourage you to review our User Review guidelines, and if you feel your review was not in violation, resubmit your review and our editors will take another look.

If you find that your review is again declined, you can then post the content of your review on this thread so staff and/or other community members can take a look to help identify what specifically is causing the rejection.

Cheers!

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3 years ago

Accept it, double standards are becoming a standard, it is absurd. That is the democracy: you're free to like something or you are free to be scorned for not liking it - the other way of a totalitarian approach when you're directly obliged to like. And of course, you're given some "community guidelines" that are widely interpreting everything just to serve one purpose: go praise something anti-white or pro-deviated sexuality-related and it'll be fine, do the other way around and you'll be sanctioned. But don't worry, when a civilization falls, it is the degenerates that emerge, it is just for a period that'll last some decades.