Great... now movie posters are sexist?

[IanHulett]

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.

What? I may not have been in a relationship where I have been physically/sexually/emotionally abused, but I have gone to school for 13 years of my life. I have been beaten, strangled, cussed at, had objects thrown at me, thrown against walls, punches thrown at my face, and even some sexual harassment. Almost half of bullies I've dealt with were female. Where are the feminists who are coming to my rescue? The only one I know of is Christina Hoff Sommers. Everybody else I've talked to with only 2 exceptions on the empty closets forum, they're in the mindset that men can't be abused, because "men are the oppressors, and the oppressors can't be the oppressed." More on this here ---> (*)

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.

What about people who have been through domestic/child abuse who don't agree with this scene being sexist? Hell, there are people who've been through sexual/physical/emotional domestic abuse who aren't even feminists.

* In regards to the asterisk earlier and the label of strawman in this part of your message, a lot of feminists I've talked to have responded with "Oh you have been oppressed? That's bullshit. Men are oppressors, therefore they can't be oppressed." This is when I haven't said anything about men being oppressed. They twist my words from being "What about male abuse" to "What about male oppression?". Doesn't THIS count as a strawman? Feminists are just as capable of using strawmen as the rest of us.