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In reply to the discussion: Why The Internet Is Disturbed By This ‘X-Men’ Poster *Trigger Warning* [View all]mythology
(9,527 posts)That doesn't mean everybody else needs to agree that a fictional depiction of violence is inherently misogynistic.
Unless you want to believe that the violence in American History X is also inherently racist. There's a promo still from that movie with Edward Norton's character standing with arms wide open underneath a burning swastika. Far more people have died due to people who believe in the ideology behind the swastika than have died from a comic book movie.
It's simplistic to think that simply any image of violence against women out of any context is inherently misogynistic. I think it actually does some degree of harm to the cause of bringing to light actual misogynistic content because it's such a parody that people can point to that and not take it seriously.
There is a lot in the superhero comic industry that is far more worth pointing out like the ludicrously oversized breasts, a paucity of fully developed female characters (good or bad characters), lack of fully developed minority characters that aren't just off-shoots of existing characters (at least they've mostly stopped naming them things like Black Lighting).