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Lets just be honest about Millie's beauty


Similarly to Natalie Portman circa 94 she's a child actor who is quite obviously a stunningly beautiful woman in the making. Anyone sexualising any 12 year old deserves a black eye- but i don't think it's paedophilic to state the obvious- she's beautiful. Shame our society has sexualised kids and brought creeps and maladjusted people to the surface to the point that's not a wise thing to say in many contexts.

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Millie is a very pretty young girl, as was young Natalie and there shouldn't be anything wrong with saying that whatsoever!

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Whether she is "beautiful" or not, the harm is in minimizing who she actually is, what she actually stands for, what her dreams are, how she wants to live her life, and instead focusing on and commenting on how she "looks." Those who focus on her looks are themselves very shallow people.

Of course girls and ladies are taught to be shallow, to focus on how well they apply makup, how their face looks, whether anyone will tell them that they are pretty. It is a shallowness that is deeply imbedded in most cultures and people like you don't even realize the shallowness of it.

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luckily, Millie herself is challenging that stereotype every time she gets the opportunity. An interviewer commented on her getting so many compliment about her looks. Her reply was that she appreciated 'all that', that no girl minds being called 'pretty' but she'd rather be seen for who she is, what she does and wants to do for the world.
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I'm not arguing against that.

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I have to disagree a little. I don't think commenting on her looks is being shallow, but I do agree that there is more of Millie as a person to see. IMO she is very talented, intelligent, and has a very sweet and outgoing personality. All of these traits, among others, make up who she is, some are less important than others for sure. I agree, her "looks" should never take precedence over her other qualities.

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I'm not encouraging focusing on her beauty above undeniably more important attributes like her acting skills and character - however commenting on the latter would be non-controversial/unawkward in any setting, where as the former can create varying shades of weirdness, it's that weirdness i'm specially commenting on.

Anyway what a well-mannered, kind seeming, charismatic and fearlessly talented little girl (:

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She is gorgeous, no doubt about that

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