S.T.A.G.E. said: Sexism is a two way street. Of course because of society being male dominated it is a lopsided situation but women objectify us as well and we cannot stop it from happening. Sexism needs to stop...but Objectifying a person will not. Think I am lying? Guys like Channging Tatum gained fame with females because objectification, but as an actor/model seems to be completely safe with himself and believes in his talents. He opted to be in Magic Mike...and i've spoken to women before....they didnt go to watch that movie just to see him act. Think about it. He SUBJECTED himself to it because he IS a SEXUAL ENTITY. Much like some female actresses or models that we find to be attractive sexually...they exude sexual energy. Everything you described has nothing to do with sexism, but rather art direction which the viewer who complained finds to be displeasing. I am an artist...I think I would know about art direction. Sexism is discrimination against the other sex. Making a woman moan in a movie isn't sexism, that by definition is called oversexualization. For an artist to oversexualize is a artisitic choice...coming from the mind of a most likely overlysexual person. sexualizetransitive verb sexualized, sexualizinto make sexual; endow with sexual significance, feeling, etc.
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Of course it's a two way street. But I'm not talking about single people objectifying men/women. I'm talking about the potrayls of men/women in media. There's quite a different between being sexy, and being sexualized. You talk about art direction, and I've already mentioned that sexism is deeply rooted in our society, so of course that'll spill over in the art direction.
Just look ath these two pictures. Spider woman has a bigger pussy than spider man has a dick. Spider man is in an intimidating position, while spider woman is sitting in a very awkward position with her tits sticking out as much as possible. She's being sexualized, or oversexualized. What ever you wanna call it. And we don't even think about that, because it's so common in our culture.
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