RE: Great... now movie posters are sexist?
June 17, 2016 at 2:42 am
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2016 at 2:50 am by Regina.)
I don't want to dismiss this as "not sexist" because if people see sexism in it, they have the right to see it, but this is one of those situations where I'm bothered by the selective outrage.
Like I said earlier, I'm not a fan of that billboard flying in public primarily because it's violent regardless and children are going to walk past it, that it's a woman on the receiving end is a secondary factor. There are probably people who literally only noticed this billboard and whined about it specifically because it was a woman he was choking. Personally I find that sad if I'm being honest, that we're so desensitised to violence that we can probably overlook our children seeing a man choking another man, but suddenly make it a woman and it's "oh fuck NO! Sexism!"
It's the same mentality as people who take issue with video games, where a male (or female) protagonist can kill 500 men, but then kills one woman and everyone loses their shit over it.
That's sad, I'm sorry.
*exits Pool mode*
Like I said earlier, I'm not a fan of that billboard flying in public primarily because it's violent regardless and children are going to walk past it, that it's a woman on the receiving end is a secondary factor. There are probably people who literally only noticed this billboard and whined about it specifically because it was a woman he was choking. Personally I find that sad if I'm being honest, that we're so desensitised to violence that we can probably overlook our children seeing a man choking another man, but suddenly make it a woman and it's "oh fuck NO! Sexism!"
It's the same mentality as people who take issue with video games, where a male (or female) protagonist can kill 500 men, but then kills one woman and everyone loses their shit over it.
That's sad, I'm sorry.
*exits Pool mode*
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