20th Century Fox has now apologized for the ad that McGowan called "casual violence against women."

[sheshe2]

20th Century Fox has now apologized for the ad featuring Jennifer Lawrence that McGowan called "casual violence against women."

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Among them was Rose McGowan, who elaborated on a May 25 Facebook post to THR: "There is a major problem when the men and women at 20th Century Fox think casual violence against women is the way to market a film. There is no context in the ad, just a woman getting strangled. The fact that no one flagged this is offensive and frankly, stupid. The geniuses behind this, and I use that term lightly, need to to take a long hard look at the mirror and see how they are contributing to society. Imagine if it were a black man being strangled by a white man, or a gay male being strangled by a hetero? The outcry would be enormous. So let’s right this wrong. 20th Century Fox, since you can’t manage to put any women directors on your slate for the next two years, how about you at least replace your ad?"

She continued: "I’ll close with a text my friend sent, a conversation with his daughter. It follows: ‘My daughter and I were just having a deep discussion on the brutality of that hideous X-Men poster yesterday. Her words: 'Dad, why is that monster man committing violence against a woman?' This from a 9-year-old. If she can see it, why can’t Fox?"

In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox apologized for the billboard: "In our enthusiasm to show the villainy of the character Apocalypse we didn’t immediately recognize the upsetting connotation of this image in print form. Once we realized how insensitive it was, we quickly took steps to remove those materials. We apologize for our actions and would never condone violence against women."

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"Here's the thing: Where do we draw the line?" she asks. "They morph into humans and most of their interactions are similar to what humans would have while as mutants. … The fantasy life can involve violence against women, and that shows how normalized it is. The argument that it shouldn't be offensive because they are mutants doesn't hold any water, … and what really is the challenge here is the intentionality of it. You could have chosen any from the thousands of images, but you chose this one. Whose attention did you want to get and to what end?"

She adds that the "striking image" of Apocalypse choking Mystique is a reminder of how violence against women is used as a default and "seen as sexy for all the wrong reasons."

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Devin Faraci, editor-in-chief of the blog Birth.Movies.Death agrees, calling the billboard "tone deaf as hell."


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/rose-mcgowan-calls-x-men-898538

I found the link here. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027876075#post241

[scscholar]

1. Link doesn't work, but was this the Jennifer Lawrance...

issue where she said men constantly wanted to choke her? That is disgusting how those men be.

[sheshe2]

2. Sorry, the link works on my end. nt

[Travis_0004]

3. Lets just not cast any women in the next Xmen movie. Problem solved.

[sheshe2]

4. No.

Let us not promote a film showing a woman being strangled. They have apologized and one said it was tone deaf.

[Mosby]

5. It wasn't tone deaf

It was specifically designed for the shock value of showing a woman getting choked out.

[sheshe2]

6. That is not tone deaf? WTF???????????????

[Mosby]

7. No they did it on purpose

tone deaf is an excuse

Being "tone deaf" means being oblivious to the way people might perceive something.

[tblue37]

15. Translation: The poster's point is that it was a feature, not a bug. nt

[IronLionZion]

8. An ad agency's job is to think about how customers will react to their ads

Makes you wonder what they were thinking. This movie could easily be marketed to women as a girl power movie.

Even with the tagline "only the strong will survive". People who are familiar with the story know exactly who survives since this is a prequel. It just seems like a bad decision. And the billboard was put up in very liberal markets that are full of feminists.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. It's interesting how much outrage was missing when an actual woman was attacked by a larger man.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1966599

[IronLionZion]

10. Here's a shot of a typical exchange in General Discussion: Primaries:

And General Discussion

[Warren DeMontague]

11. The character is not a shrinking violet, to be sure.

Hell, I was looking at the "controversial" poster and it looked to me like Jlaw was about to rip the hands off the big dude and stuff em in his mouth.

But maybe that's just me.

Either way, the outrage over Spiderwoman's butt was a much larger bar brawl.

[IronLionZion]

12. Spiders crawl

no matter how they crawl, spiderpeople tend to be on all fours.

There are plenty of people of both genders that I sometimes want to grab by the neck and squeeze, but it's usually better to just log off from DU and take a break.

[DesMoinesDem]

13. The 12 people that were deeply offended will be so happy.

Just kidding. Nothing could make those pathetic, perpetually outraged idiots happy. On to the next outrage!

[linuxman]

14. That about sums it up.