|
Post by Spike-X on Jun 6, 2016 21:30:34 GMT -5
California
|
|
|
Post by Spike-X on Jun 6, 2016 21:29:36 GMT -5
I've been re-reading Lone Wolf And Cub. Amazing stuff.
|
|
|
Post by Spike-X on Jun 6, 2016 20:27:08 GMT -5
(nice!)
Jets
|
|
|
Post by Spike-X on Jun 6, 2016 20:13:39 GMT -5
There's a thousand year old fictional mutant overlord with god like powers attacking a blue mutant gal that can assume the form of any living creature just doesn't register on any of my meters of importance. I'm pretty sure that's exactly the kind of thing that the people who some like to sneeringly dismiss as 'Social Justice Warriors' mean when they talk about privilege. We're guys. We have the luxury of being able to explain this away, or dismiss it as unimportant. Other people have to live with these kinds of images as the background radiation of their lives. And like any radiation, once it builds to a certain point it becomes toxic and can't be ignored any more.
|
|
|
Post by Spike-X on Jun 6, 2016 18:58:57 GMT -5
While that's most likely the case, my understanding is that the people who protested the billboard see that as part of the problem; they didn't even consider the aspect of, "Do we really need to be adding yet another image of violence against women to the general climate of society?"
|
|
|
Post by Spike-X on Jun 6, 2016 17:55:01 GMT -5
Vendetta
|
|
|
Post by Spike-X on Jun 6, 2016 17:50:33 GMT -5
Or - and hear me out here - we could let other people decide for themselves what bothers them, instead of having to run it past a committee of StraightWhiteDudes first? Because if a woman, or several women*, decide that something bothers them, I don't think it's my place to tell them that it shouldn't. People doing that is something that makes me SMH. * or non-white people, or LGBT people, or etc etc In the instance of the X-Men ads, why does Fox have to apologize to them for them getting offended? Well, they have to because it would be bad public relations not to, so while they may want to tell those offended to "get over it and go f#$% themselves", they'll bend a knee and beg forgiveness in order to sell a few more tickets, and the special snowflakes will once more have gotten what they want through intimidation and bullying, the very things they decry when done against them. It's 'intimidation and bullying' to tell somebody, "Hey, I don't like this image you're using to promote your movie, maybe you could choose another one?" Wow. Special snowflakes indeed.
|
|
|
Post by Spike-X on Jun 6, 2016 4:23:06 GMT -5
Breeding
|
|
|
Post by Spike-X on Jun 6, 2016 1:40:59 GMT -5
Babies
|
|
|
Post by Spike-X on Jun 6, 2016 1:38:27 GMT -5
Fox Apologizes for X-Men: Apocalypse AdsFox has decided to apologize after some folks complained about the advertising campaign for X-Men: Apocalypse, or more specifically, one facet of that campaign in which Mystique (played by Jennifer Lawrence) is shown being strangled by the movie's titular villain. Some women's groups have taken to social media to argue that Fox is promoting violence against women by using that image in advertisements, which has caused Fox to issue apologies and pull said image from its campaign. Physical violence against women is wrong. Full stop. There is never any excuse why a man should lay hands on a woman in an aggressive or violent manner. My father hit my mother once early in their marriage while under the influence of alcohol, and she told him that if he ever struck her again, she would leave him, move back to her hometown, and take any children they may have at the time with her. Two weeks from today, they will celebrate their 47th wedding anniversary, so he apparently got the message. That said, THIS IS A MOVIE! Have people completely lost the ability to differentiate between reality and fantasy, particularly when one of the individuals pictured is a giant ancient "god" and the other is a blue-skinned shapeshifter? Also, while the image may be taken out of context, they are in the middle of a battle, so are we now no longer allowed to have a female character suffer any physical harm, even in the midst of a fight scene? Can women only be shown as victors and never victims, even in works of fiction? Mystique has been a big part of the X-Men franchise (both trilogies) and has always been shown as a capable and strong woman. The use of that specific image was to show the power level of the villain and the threat he posed to the heroes, and they used a character familiar to moviegoers rather than one of the newer characters, not to somehow promote violence toward women. SMH... Any person genuinely or preemptivly "offended" by this, or any person motivated to fake outrage at this is completely and absolutely brain dead. They have no business walking unsupervised among the rest of society. They should be isolated for their own safety. Or - and hear me out here - we could let other people decide for themselves what bothers them, instead of having to run it past a committee of StraightWhiteDudes first? Because if a woman, or several women*, decide that something bothers them, I don't think it's my place to tell them that it shouldn't. People doing that is something that makes me SMH. * or non-white people, or LGBT people, or etc etc
|
|
|
Post by Spike-X on Jun 5, 2016 8:21:18 GMT -5
Bowel
|
|
|
Post by Spike-X on Jun 4, 2016 18:52:39 GMT -5
Party
|
|
|
Post by Spike-X on Jun 3, 2016 21:23:34 GMT -5
Topic
|
|
|
Post by Spike-X on Jun 3, 2016 18:13:31 GMT -5
Needle
|
|
|
Post by Spike-X on Jun 3, 2016 18:10:54 GMT -5
Not that I can recall. If I was to do that now, it would probably be this one:
|
|