Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel
I laughed.
It's slapstick, not real violence.
Like the Three Stooges or Laurel & Hardy.
No, it wasn't. She was brutally beating and kicking the living shit out of him. There was no-eye poking or pie-throwing going on, nor were they shoving EACHOTHER gently.
You wanna test if it was misandry? Imagine the guy beating and kicking the living shit out of her in the same way. Still laughing?
First of all, a heroine punching out or beating up a boorish and chauvinistic male "protector" is a shtick I've seen a myriad of times on TV and movies. It has nothing to do with the writers hating men or hating women. FFS....
Often sexism and misandry is hidden even from those who have it in them. Listen to yourself very carefully: a man offers to protect a woman, and for the audacity of being attracted to her and wanting to protect her, the woman "comically" beats the living daylights out of the man.
How about we switch around the proverbs:
A woman offers to protect a man, and for the audacity of being attracted to him and wanting to protect him, the man "comically" beats the living daylights out of the woman.
Sounds different suddenly, doesn't it? There are different standards for different genders aka sexism.
When a strong person beats the crap out of a weaker person for no reason whatsoever, it is abuse. Or at least, it should be. But the average person only calls it abuse when it is a woman that gets it.
Men get abused by women in relationships all the time. Even if they were strong enough physically to fight the woman, the very above sexism would mean that he'd be the one thrown in jail for being abusive, even though he was just defending himself. Then there's the leverage of taking away the children from him with a divorce, extorting compliance to his own abuse from him, because in our society, that's exactly what would happen.
Secondly, I think you're over-stating the level of violence in that scene. Violence is more than the action, it's the result. It's a comedy, I somehow doubt he has more than some birdies flying around his head after his ass-whooping.
Once again; have him beat up her comically with nothing but birdies flying around her head. Do you think you could pull that one off, or is it so distasteful to you, you don't even want to try? The gender of the person getting beat up over nothing shouldn't matter; it should be just as distasteful a man gets this treatment in a movie than a woman.
Either that, or enjoy women getting comically beaten up over nothing every bit as much as a man.
Yeah, the movie is
advocating that women beat men for a good time in real life.
Sadly, it seems close to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hn-wL6hPq8
There are massive double standards. There's no problem with women abusing men, and beating them, because according to society men are evil, powerful dominants that can't be hurt by the weak little female. If you get this view everywhere, including movies all over the place, it's pretty much a tacit allowance to hurt men.
