It gained a few viewers over the next week or so, and then, earlier this week, feminist scholar Sophie Lewis wrote a Twitter thread in which she called it “a flawed but moving documentary about a straight man who has a life-changing erotic relationship with a female octopus.” Lewis’ point was far more nuanced than the initial tweet let on, but as soon as the notion of octopus sex was suggested, the idea took off. Netflix released My Octopus Teacher on September 4. No, this entire meme is the result of a game of Twitter Telephone that turned increasingly bizarre largely thanks to juvenile humor and the fact that Covid lockdowns mean that a lot of people are watching a lot more Netflix.Īs best as we can tell, here’s what happened. Or, well, they weren’t harmed by humans octopi are still predators, after all. No animals were harmed in the making of this movie. No one involved in the Octopus Sex Movie Discourse (at least none that we’ve seen) is actually claiming malpractice. We are too, largely because that feels OK.
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