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

[ismnotwasm]

210. It's not fight scenes

I'm not even offended as I said before, just sick of portrayals of violence on women's bodies to sell shit.

In "The Hateful Eight" Jennifer Jason Leigh gets smacked around a lot--in fact it's a punchline (pun intended) of the movie. It's brutal. Real brutal. Brutal humor. I don't see it as sexist, she played a particular character in a particular point in history with a director who makes action comic-book type plots come to incredible life.

To sell the movie, there's no shot of her character getting smacked out of a carriage. Although admittedly that would not represent the movie.

One thing I do notice about Mystique here is the total lack of fear--she's getting ready to do...something, because she almost always has a backup action. Still, I wish the ad didn't make her look helpless--because she's anything but. And that I do find sexist.