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)

Oh yes, turn the other cheek, forget about it, ignore it, your kids won't even notice....... Why why why!!!

If something offends, degrades, upsets, normalises, why shouldn't we confront it. If more people confronted this sexist bullshit it might not be as "normal".

I asked my local shop (very small) to stop displaying the daily star at the front door, at children's eye level & the manager agreed. It really is that simple. Confront & make changes.

I looked at other posters advertising the film too Soup , I did wonder the same as you.

"LordBrightside, are you male?

Also, a lot of what rapists do"

Get lost.

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.

Yeah, funny, the trailer makes it looks like the typical "don't settle down, go out and party and random girls, your fiancee is a harpy trying to trap you!" Never seen a movie like that before.

Soup dragon, the first poster with the sock suspender made me smile and would make think amusing light weight screwball comedy ( something I might watch if there wasn't anything else better) but the original poster would make me avoid the film like the plague. I expect their marketing attempts might back fire!

Get lost.

I'll take that as a yes.

"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."

I wasn't being literal when I said "nobody". I'm not interested in what rapists do or how they think. How society works shouldn't be defined by the behaviour of criminals.

"I'll take that as a yes."

My genitals are none of your business.

YANBU. It's depressing. I wonder who they think their target audience is, it's difficult to think who this might appeal to.

I imagine goodnightdarthvadar is quite relieved about that

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

People also have legs and arses. It's clear to anyone with a brain that this is a female person.

I wonder what choice there was on the part of the cinema.

I'm not sure they have much choice in these things, I think (but don't know for sure) that a lot of promotional material is created and targeted by the people who are making / marketing the film. Eg they decide certain posters and marketing approaches will work better for certain countries. They obviously think that in the UK, "boy stares at woman's ass" will sell well.

I like the American poster (as a lesser of two evils).

I have yet to see any woman at my local Tesco petrol station

a) wearing hotpants without tights/leggings, even in summer, or
b) filling up the car by sticking their bum out like that.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but when I fill up the car I put the nozzle in the hole and stand up straight, watching the price thingy.

So yes, it is ridiculous sexual shite - not only the leering RDN, or the headless arse, but the clothing the arse is wearing and the posture of the woman it belongs to. I can just imagine the photoshoot - stick your arse out! No, not like that - we can still see your head!

It does objectify women but how do you keep children away from images that objectify women when they're everywhere?

Call me crazy but I'd suggest the way is to remove the images.

You start by moving the "lads' mags" to the top shelves. Then you start signing petitions about banning Page 3 and you say/do something every time you see an offensive image.

Pick them off one by one.

Not really mrsjayy. I'm getting over that really nasty cold everyone's got so I'm just high on Day Nurse

There is never a poster with say Judi Dench leering at zac ephron's scantily cladded arse is there though ( not that Judi would have to slump to such levels to pay her tax bill!)

Why do we get to see De Niro's ugly mug but not the woman's? Sexist shit.

Sexist. Not sexual.

both men gawping like they've never seen a woman's ass before

Only one is gawping. The younger character looks exasperated/disgusted.

I given the other choices of poster from the US, they've made the wrong choice with this one.

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

Really? So how do you explain the fact that many men are prepared to use prostitutes whom they know full well may have been trafficked, so are in fact being raped for someone else's profit? Or that many men get sexual pleasure from images of children being sexually abused even though they (mostly) would be horrified if their own children were subjected to the same assaults?

"You are not interested in how rapists work but how about the mass sexual assault perpetrators in Germany. Do you think they objectified women?"

You can't expect me to speak for these people. Why are you asking me about this?

It is a poster that won't be there next week.

Isn't it more important to talk to our kids about sexism, what isn't acceptable with regard to how we treat each other regardless of their gender., that's more important than some daft picture that I doubt a real woman posed for anyway, I could be wrong, I wasn't in the studio.

Also, how many of us on here contribute to daft threads about the likes of Aidan Turner getting his shirt off or comment about some other good looking bloke?