| John,
Right now we’re standing up against Netflix’s sexually explicit 365 Days film. If you and I do not speak out against this kind of depraved “entertainment” today, I am afraid we will continue to see young people fed the dangerous lies that it is okay to force a woman to have sex and that “no” can be twisted into “yes.” But it takes more than just an agreement that this is wrong. It takes boldness. It takes action. It takes your signature on our petition to ignite change. Without major advertisements, this film has found itself in Netflix’s top 10 most-watched in countries such as the US, UK, and Australia. This, due in part to teenagers on TikTok filming themselves reacting to the film’s explicit scenes. “I did not expect this kind of movie to be on Netflix; maybe, like, late-night HBO,” Noah Holifield, an 18-year-old Chicagoan whose TikTok reaction video has more than 2.6 million views, said. Can you help us stop this harmful film before it becomes viewable to more young men and women?
Sign our petition now to stop 365 Days and to help us show Netflix that this kind of movie is completely unacceptable.
Your signature will be sent to Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings. This is a crucial moment to strategically move even as media reports suggest Netflix is preparing to produce a sequel to 365 Days. We need you to act now!
Thank you, Gregory Mertz and the entire CitizenGO Team P.S. Once you’ve signed the petition, please share it with friends and family. Without your help, we will not be able to make the impact we need to make a difference. Here's the email we sent you earlier on this:
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Netflix is at it again! Now sending a dangerous message to young people that normalizing sexual exploitation is okay. Sign now to demand Netflix cancel the explicit 365 Days film. SIGN THE PETITION |
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Dear John,
Parents beware. Netflix is at it again. Another offensive, viral movie akin to 50 Shades of Grey, is currently the fourth most-watched program on Netflix UK and the third most-watched on Netflix US. It is a movie of a fictitious Mafia lord who kidnaps, drugs, chokes, and all but rapes a stranger for a year in the mad hope that she will fall in love with him. The drug boss is depicted to grope her breast about two minutes after meeting her. If she runs away, the Mafia leader threatens to kill her parents. She develops "stockholm syndrome" and next thing, she falls into a sex-filled trap. The film features scenes that are too graphic and sexually explicit for me to even describe to you in this email. If this is not blatant use of sexual exploitation of a woman for the sake of good ratings and the enjoyment of the depraved, then I don't know what is. This is nothing more than the glorification of kidnap and forced sex.
Tell Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: cancel 365 Days film today!
Many young people binge-watch Netflix and while many may be quick to fall into the trap that this is “just a film,” it is these toxic normalizations repeatedly reinforced in modern entertainment that are responsible for influencing today’s generation of boys who are led to believe that violence against women is fine and that “no” can be twisted into “yes.” Even though the film is rated for mature content, children are reportedly watching it and a number of scenes have been reposted on popular social media platforms like TikTok and YouTube. The dangerously flawed notion that male aggression is synonymous with love is alive on social media with comments from young women including ‘'Waiting for my Massimo', 'I wanna have him' and 'Sexiest man alive'." The bottom line is that this movie is neither pro-woman nor empowering. And if you want to do your part to destroy the harmful normalization and eroticization of sexual exploitation, then I urge you to action this alert without delay!
Hold Netflix accountable for objectifying and sexualizing women and girls.
We need your help to send a clear message to Netflix to cancel this disgusting and outrageous film urgently. It is extremely disappointing that what appears to be a kidnap-rape fantasy has so many people watching amid COVID-19. As The Guardian rightly describes it, “it is a film aimed squarely at a very specific sliver of horny people who are smart enough to sign up for a Netflix account but too dumb to be able to type the word Pornhub on to the internet.”
Sign now to help us send a strong message to Netflix: normalising kidnapping and nonconsensual sex is not okay. Thank you, Gregory Mertz and the entire CitizenGO Team --
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