Great... now movie posters are sexist?

[paulpablo]

Things not in the frame don't excuse things -in-..the frame.  Cmon, not even a little sexist?

I can see the argument for it being sexist with no context, or a different context surrounding the situation.

If it was an advertisement for Levis and the guy was stood there in jeans choking a woman like that, then yes I'd say it's promoting violence against women as a good thing, and pretty much sexist.

But this is a film poster.  The scene is directly out of the film.  I could be offended as a man and say "This poster is portraying my gender as being violent, uncaring and evil, I'm so offended."

But as I say, it's just a scene from the movie and that's all I can ever see it as.

If there's a film about Jews being killed by Hitler and you see a concentration camp on the film poster, that hopefully isn't encouraging people to try and start their own genocide.  It's simply what happened in the film.

If the poster is being taken down because the person being choked in the scene is a woman and not because of the violent act itself then that is sexist.

Because if you're saying it's Ok for a man to be a victim of violence on a poster at the hands of a man but not a woman then that's not equality.