| Jamie89 |
31-05-2017 06:45 PM |
It reminds me a bit of when loads of people complained about the Yorkie 'it's not for girls' advert for being sexist :laugh: so yeah there'd probably be complaints as well if it was the other way around, but regardless I don't see the problem with this type of thing at all. Even if it is technically sexist, perspective is needed in that noone is actually disadvantaged or harmed by this in any way. The disadvantage is that men won't be able to watch a Wonder Woman movie at a specific time at a specific screening, so it's very weak to compare it to to issues relating to equal rights (like some of the facebook comments are). And actually, I think the reason they're doing it in the first place is as a marketing ploy because the majority of superhero/action movie audiences are male and the inherent sexism that still exists in Hollywood - so the sexism argument could go much deeper than this screening (this stunt only needing to exist because of the already prevalent sexism against women in the medium), and so it's a hard sell to have a movie in this genre with a female lead, so this is probably their way of trying to attract the attention of women in order to get more of them to see it, so if it works in that respect it's probably quite a clever move (and could also lead to more female orientated action movies and therefore less need for stunts like this in the first place).
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