Alexa Nikolas alleges 'Zoey 101' creator Dan Schneider sat in on her wardrobe fittings: 'I had to wear very short skirts'
"Zoey 101" actress Alexa Nikolas alleges that TV creator Dan Schneider behaved inappropriately with his young cast on the Nickelodeon series.
It's really the latter I have a problem with. If they were adult women, it'd be one thing a la Tarantino (who also has his own problems)
But Schneider puts young girls up there and has his people tell them that it's just how to get ahead in the business, it's totally normal for them to be exploited, if they don't go along with it then they won't have a career, etc.
That's the problem. Don't care about kinks and fetishes, only that they are adults and therefore are capable of giving (and have given) consent.
Kids are not capable of giving that consent.
If I had to guess, a lot of reasons kids can't get out of it is due to contractual obligation too, e.g. parents cannot rip their kids off set without being potential legally and financially ruined unless they can demonstrate exploitative abuse.