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)

I'm not saying it's not wrong to objectify women, of course it is. I just think that picture is far from the worst culprit in this industry and that children wouldn't notice it, not even subliminally. From what I gather he gets him comeuppance in the film which is pro-women.

If you want to take issue with sexism in the film issue, which children will notice and take in subliminally, I think there are far bigger issues. The way girls in kids films are still princesses fluttering their eyelashes at the big strong hero, the way there are no decent characters for middle aged actresses, the way even strong and intelligent female characters in films have to wear virtually no clothes....Of all those things, this picture is the least offensive.

'Headless woman being perved at by old men'

This. What is more objectifying than reducing the woman to an unidentifiable ass and legs being ogled by fully clothed men.

Surely its what the film is about an old man who treats women as just arse and legs and how his grandson deals with it?

Hatethis, firstly, the younger man isn't ogling, so it's man, not men.

2nd, the OP's question related specifically to her DC seeing it and I don't think it would affect them at all, whereas there are other less obvious things in films that do form their opinion about how men and women should behave.

Eugh, De Niro will do any old shit these days.

YANBU but I'm afraid it fits in with societal norms.

mudandmayhem01 she sounds like a budding mn

^YANBU

Headless woman being perved at by old men. Grim!
And we wonder why some men think women are objects for their gratification rather than people.^

^This

YANBU horrible image.

WTF is going on with de Niro, it seems as if he'll do anything for money these days. Somebody blackmailing him? Online bingo addiction?
Have a word with yourself Robert, you were in The King of Comedy ffs

But the whole message of the film is that decent men don't behave like this. The gandpa is "dirty"

"Its not just that I don't want my DS to see giant sized sexist posters - I don't want ANYBODY see giant sized sexist posters in public places! "

Even more ludicrous than your original position. Where does this arrogance and entitlement come from? Why do you think the world should be shaped to suit your worldview and prejudices? You know best what is good for everyone else?

Nobody has any right whatsoever not to be offended.

ofafrenchmind - yeah, because that's how you make sexism go away, by ignoring it.

You would have been real asset to the suffragettes...not.

sorry, but of course children would notice it subliminally! we all do! It will always register and back up other degrading images showing a woman being observed, as if that part of her which is observed is the only important bit about her, in a submissive position, outnumbered. Etc etc.

OfaFrench wish you would change your username. It is not a French mind for me. The French people I know would disagree with you wholeheartedly (inc. me).
go and read some deuxième sexe ffs.

What are you objecting to? The subject matter of the film or how the poster portrays it?

Surely its what the film is about an old man who treats women as just arse and legs and how his grandson deals with it?

I didn't realise the film was intended as a serious study into the ways that different generations of males can debate and learn great truths from each other through the medium of a woman's arse.

Sounds right up my alley.

"Objectification" is a load of rubbish anyway, there's no such thing is reality.

Nobody looks at an attractive woman or man depicted sexually and fails to understand that they are a person. Nobody believes that people are objects.

A lot of people just have hang ups about sex and see any depiction of sexuality (part of life and an integral part of human nature) as wrong. They choose to demonise attractiveness and sexuality with the label "objectification".

Progress from the Puritan age is slow.

Progress from the 60s is slow, apparently - you could put Sid James in Robert De Niro's place and Jim Dale in Efron's and it would be a Carry On poster.

Nobody looks at an attractive woman or man depicted sexually and fails to understand that they are a person. Nobody believes that people are objects.

LordBrightside, are you male?

Also, a lot of what rapists do involves dehumanising someone to the status of an object to be penetrated for their enjoyment, so it's false to make the sweeping statement that "nobody" does this.

YANBU, OP - it's an unacceptable poster for all the reasons that Darth Vader gives: The headless bodiless woman, who just exists to be a sexy ass, the penis-replacement petrol pump pointed at her headless bodiless ass, both men gawping like they've never seen a woman's ass before ... give me strength.

Vile.

And WTF is Robert de Niro doing making shit like this?? Really?? Cape Fear, Taxi Driver,the Godfather to Dirty Grandpa???? The mind boggles.

The woman in this poster isn't portrayed as a person. People usually have heads.

As for the ultimate message of the film, it's irrelevant. Only muppets are realistically going to pay hard money to watch a film called 'dirty grandpa' starring RDN. Even if it's a searing polemic about womens place in society the poster is still hateful.

YANBU

It's sexist bullshit and I'm sick of having it forced fed to me in advertisement. Women faking orgasms while washing their hair, random sex scenes that don't even fit in with the film, so just a random pair of boobs to look at and so on. Objectifying women everywhere and it has become the norm and most people don't even see the problem with it.

Most children will overlook that poster but that isn't really the point is it? The drip drip effect (affect?) is still happening.

It's pretty awful. And people wonder why kids are growing up sex obsessed.

Interestingly, it isn't the only poster (these are American though). I wonder what choice there was on the part of the cinema.

Oh you are sharp today limited

And people wonder why kids are growing up sex obsessed.

Are they? .

The worst one was Sex Tape with Cameron Diaz, our cinema has posters lining the wall all the way down to the theatres (has 13 screens or something) the main corrridor in the posters are repeated side by side on both walls and when that film was coming out that horrendous poster was lining both walls all the way. I was seriously unimpressed. While my 8yo may not have noticed my 11 year old certainly bloody did.