Why The Internet Is Disturbed By This ‘X-Men’ Poster *Trigger Warning*

[moriah]

149. Though perhaps not those with the most right to complain -- females in fandom/ons/etc.

I'm not a huge gamer but I sure spent enough time playing D&D and do know a developer on FB (we met when I was a teenager on local BBSes) who regularly writes about the issues since GamerGate, etc. He's not exactly a person I would call a raving feminist, but he posted about this today -- his opinion was "Bad taste for an ad, doesn't mean I won't go see it."

Even in the ultra-feminist movie "Enough" there's a scene where the actress is being choked. Since in the movie she gets the last laugh, though, merely depicting violence against females isn't inherently wrong. It was using it for the advertisement that got his "bad taste" comment, simply because without the context of the movie to perhaps show her throwing him through the Empire State Building (haven't seen it obviously) after, it just looks like they're trying to get FSOG fans to watch.