to not want my DS to be confronted with this large poster when we go to cinema?

[HubbaBubbaMum]

Went to cinema this week with DH, planning to take DS and his brother tomorrow for birthday treat. I can't believe that in 2016 we will be forced to walk past this poster and that they have even called the film Dirty Granpa!
www.movieinsider.com/posters/277857/

Really??? Letching older man perving young woman's suggestively raised arse whilst other man holds 'petrol nozzle' pointing at her?? I don't want my sons seeing this sexist shit.
(only one cinema in our town btw)

These kinds of offensive posters will be made available while these kinds of offensive films are made. What can change this is:

• If a number of people complain and say they find the poster offensive so that cinemas are not permitted to use it, (perhaps a relief to the women and men who work in the cinema)
• People don't go to see this kind of daft sexist movie (free will being what it is and all)

-People go and see the movie and then complain if it is sexist -Actors, producers and writers stop churning out this stuff

If there is any part of these areas you are in control of and feel the desire to change, you can do so fairly easily by a few clicks!

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If you can honestly say as a women or girl that "I personally have never felt objectified and have never been groped, whistled at etc.", that you've never had a 'non-criminal' man pass an uninvited and unwelcome comment on you or your appearance as you've walked down the street minding your own business (we'll leave most of the 'criminal' behaviour to one side for the moment) then you are indeed lucky.

But are you honestly saying you don't know more than one female this has happened to, or females this happened to more than once? Are you honestly saying you don't know women and girls who've tried to modify their appearance, behaviour, plans, route home, in order to try to avoid harassment? Or had to "brazen it out" (an awful phrase in this context) and act like it's "trivial" even though they've found it - at best - intimidating and unpleasant? Because unless you can 100% honestly answer 'yes' to those questions, you may think I'm pulling up my big, prudish "judgey pants" by objecting to this sort of poster and the message and attitude it perpetuates in 2016, but I think you are pulling up the ladder.

Laurie I have never been catcalled or groped or sexually assaulted. It's slightly wearing that "we believe you " on here does not seem to apply in that situation.

However, having said that, it is not necessary for me to have experienced that to know that poster is vile ; for all the reasons Bertrand and others have eloquently said.

So far as LordBrightside he/she seems to be appearing frequently on threads and running what I call "the Bernard Manning" defence- in other words "not for the easily offended" - the get out of jail card used by the hard of thinking to continue with whatever sexism, racism, homophobia us Puritans are too narrow-minded to tolerate.

Lord Brightside seems to have gone quiet. Thankfully.

Lass - I certainly believe you and anyone on here or in RL who says they've never felt objectified and have never been groped, whistled at etc.", that they've never had a 'non-criminal' man pass an uninvited and unwelcome comment on their appearance as they've walked down the street minding their own business. I really can't imagine why someone would lie about it.

I confess I would be very, very surprised if they didn't know women and girls that this has happened to.

I think this vile poster perpetuates an attitude in society that allows women and girls to be treated in this way.

HubbaBubba - thanks for posting this. I agree with everything you've said.

Italiangreyhound - thanks for posting where we can complain about the adverts.

This poster is now emblazoned over the buses and my primary school aged dds have asked what the film is about.

Tell them. Tell them it's about ridiculous attitudes towards women and silly old men who don't know when to grow up.

Turn it into an opportunity for education.

Don't know what's more depressing, the existence of the poster or the fact that so many on here don't see the problem with it

Amen. Fuck me, what a world.

But I agree with goodnight; it could at least be an opportunity for a chat with DCs about attitudes to women etc.

I know I can tell them but they are 5 and 8 and I should not have been put in the position of needing to discuss this with them.

Mm, but according to pps you have no right to any opinion on the poster unless you have seen the film, so I suggest you and Dc pay and go to the film and only then you can have a conversation about the poster.

Sigh.

I'm also a bit weirded out that some people think that because of a movie called Magic Mike there is no more objectification against women any more, or it doesn't count or something.

Ho hum.

YANBU

My two (Ds, 11 and DD 13) would notice the poster, comment on it negatively and be quite disdainful. I've schooled them well

I haven't read the whole thread but thanks again to Italiangreyhound for posting where to complain.

Eh, the study measured the brain. It wasn't about nurture.

...fucking hell.

Quite.

This is an alternative poster.