When I saw this poster, my first thought was "OH **** IS HE GONNA KILL MYSTIQUE???????" Not "How disgusting! A man choking a woman! I'll write a strongly worded letter about this." I consider myself a little SJW-y, too. It's a climactic part of the movie, and I wish people wouldn't create a problem where there isn't one.
I'm happy about this, Hopefully this will help the film instdustry, and soon all films will stop containing fighting, and everything will be peaceful instead. Violence is evil and unnessicary, there's no reason for it to be in films, because they're just going to cause people to do evil things in real life and we need to be more peaceful
Sadly there's a lot of violence in movies (which I why I don't watch them) and I wish there wasn't This is definitely a step in the right direction.
What kind of sensitive babies get triggered by this? Jesus ****ing Christ, welcome to the real world. If this were the hood or a third world country, that image would be a "so what?" Moment. No ones going to look at that and suddenly want to choke women.
This perfectly sums up how stupid this is. You've got a serial pedophile/rapist directing the film and you're upset that a female action star portraying the average action star is somehow offensive to women? You can't make this up.
I support this. It seems insignificant but things mount up and images stick with ppl, especially dumb ones who unfortunately make up a lot of the world.
I read an article somewhere about the history of women on movie posters and how often the woman's face isn't featured, just parts of her body- usually the backside. And most of the time the dude is there in plain view
The image of "the woman" stripped of her agency (& sometimes even identity) being used to promote products that gross millions of $$$ has been a marketing tool for yeaaaaars and it's wack as ****
It isn't the image itself it's how it's being used
Don't women always want female superheroes in movies? And want them to be equals?
Ch
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What the hell is going on here? Stupidity like this prevents us from moving forward.
In a super-hero fight, the man is not going to hold his punches just because the other is a female.