Great... now movie posters are sexist?

[paulpablo]

Maybe it requires you having been a female in a relationship where the power dynamic was fucked and someone choked or otherwise abused you or, hey, I don't know, tried to throw you off something (weren't they on a building in that scene? I haven't seen the movie yet - in my case, it was a flight of stairs) before you realize why it can be construed as sexist. Because you know, there was literally no way they couldn't take particular photos to advertise the movie, or choose a different movie still to show the struggle, or something. Nope, they specifically chose Jlaw getting choked by a meathead.

You don't understand why it's sexist? It's great that you're admitting it. The problem is you probably didn't bother to listen to why, except to gather hyperbolic or hysterical statements in order to continue building a strawman of feminism instead of, I don't know, listening to those of us who have been through domestic or child abuse.

Don't get me wrong - I love a little breath play in my scenes, but that's always been consensual. I wish I could say that grabbing a woman by a vulnerable part of her body has always been consensual in my life, or my sister's or mother's.

No they were at ground level on that scene, it was around the time he pushed quicksilver into the ground.

My point is that abusive relationships, violence against women or abuse against women isn't sexist unless it's on the basis of their gender.

Since this person is a mutant who wants to destroy all of humanity and every mutant who stands in his way it's clear he's not just choking her because she's female.

That's why I think the poster isn't sexist, because to me it makes no sense to view the poster as being independent from the film itself.

I can understand why someone might think it's sexist. Someone might think she's on the poster being victimised just because she's a woman. But you'd have to know what the advertisers were thinking to know why they chose that image and not a man fighting a man instead to know if it's sexist or not. I don't think they used that image because she's a woman but because she's a main hero and that is a pivotal scene in the film.
Also that's another big deal for me. Is that it was the scene in the film. Say if they made a different film about a sexist, abusive husband and the advertisement was of him slapping his wife in the face with a belt.
I would say the advert is inappropriate for public viewing but the advert in itself is not sexist. It's portraying a scene in a film of a sexist man. The poster is just showing you what's there. Same as in the X men film, it's showing what is there.