Mystique And The Feminist Faux-Outrage From The Pixie-Dust-Bubble Of Hollywood
[guest post by Dana]
At first, I wasn’t going to post about this because it’s Hollywood. Enough said, right? The pixie-dust bubble where illusion and insipidness seem to be a way of life for so many. And that insipidness is never more on full display than when Hollywood self-righteously gets on their SJW soapbox to rage about the latest perceived Insult To Humanity. This time, it’s actress Rose McGowan, who is Outraged by this depiction of violence toward women as seen in a poster advertising Twentieth Century Fox’s X-Men:Apocalypse:
McGowan’s denouncement:
There is a major problem when the men and women at Twentieth Century Fox think casual violence against women is the way to market a film. There is no context in the ad, just a woman getting strangled. The fact that no one flagged this is offensive and frankly, stupid.
Wait just a second. If there is “no context in the ad,” then how does McGowan know that Mystique is really a woman? And since you mentioned “stupid,” Ms. McGowan, you know what I think is stupid? I think it’s stupid that you see a sci-fi comic book character named Mystique who is a “mutant” that typically wears nothing more than head-to-toe blue gills and has the ability to instantly change her appearance into anything she wants, as a real woman. Right up there with that stupidity, is that you see another sci-fi creature named Apocalypse as doing harm to a real woman. Am I losing my socially-conscious mind here??!
Of course Twentieth Century Fox caved to pressure and issued an apology:
“In our enthusiasm to show the villainy of the character Apocalypse we didn’t immediately recognize the upsetting connotation of this image in print form,” Fox said in a statement. “Once we realized how insensitive it was, we quickly took steps to remove those materials. We apologize for our actions and would never condone violence against women.”
Tell me that outrageous level of insensitivity toward women didn’t just leave you reeling!
All I can say is, thank God Mystique wasn’t a rural school teacher who turned down a marriage proposal from a colleague, only to find herself being set on fire and dying from the honor killing an excruciating four days later. Although, since we are to believe that Mystique is a real woman, her unique ability to change her appearance in an instant would no doubt have saved her from such a fate.
And thankfully, Mystique isn’t the young Iraqi woman in a village near battle-torn Mosul, filming a music video “in an effort to support & inspire Kurdish troops there fighting against ISIS”. And talk about your violence toward women: Helly Luv is now on ISIS’s Most Wanted List. But that’s just something she just doesn’t have time for:
I’m going against the most dangerous terrorist group in the whole world but I feel that there are thousands of people risking their lives against them on the battlefield…If my life is at risk but I can get the message to millions of people then that is a privilege.
Moreover, it’s a good thing Mystique isn’t in “Sultana’s” shoes, and confined to her Afghanistan home located in the belly of the Taliban beast because her family was told if she went to school she would have acid thrown in her face. You know, where I come from, that’s considered real violence toward real women. Now she’s trying to overcome real-life obstacles and devouring things like English, algebra, trig, calculus, and learning about string theory and reading Kant with hopes of becoming a physics professor. Likely she won’t have an opportunity to slip out to the movies and see some Hollywood-type violence toward women, given that she only leaves the house five times a year because of that whole acid thing. Plus living in a third-world hellhole has its limitations: no movie theaters.
Clearly not everyone has the luxury of existing in the insular pixie-dust-bubble of Hollywood and stamping their foot in faux-outrage over imagined offenses. Especially not those real women facing actual violence.
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (0ee61a) — 6/5/2016 @ 4:48 pmLeftist women are insane.
Avoid at all costs.
NJRob (a07d2e) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:09 pmThere’s big campaign now I read in TIME to removes sales taxes on tampons – a worldwide campaign. It even manged to pass the New York State legislature, which never passes anything. Somebody made this into the latest feminist issue. That’s why it is only tampons and not tissues or napkins or toilet paper or anything else like that.
Nicholas Kristof doesn’t understand that Sultana from Afghanistan can’t get a student visa because of the McCarran Walters immigration act which requires a person be denied a visa to the United States if they might later stay and immigrate even if they would only do that legally! he best hope would be to show she could immigrate to a third country if she got educated enough to be a physics professor.
Sammy Finkelman (eb1481) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:13 pmshe dated marilyn manson, so caveat lector,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:14 pmIt’s an outrage against themis. KatnissXeniaMystique should only be shown plunging an arrow/sword/dagger into the Apocalypse X-Man.
It’s just part of the Clinton campaign effort. I’m just pleased the overabundance of blacks (in relation to actual representation within the general population) in Hollywood propaganda has drawn near to a close. An argument can be made re the number of dykes being depicted in management positions exceeding the black leader trope in sheer stupidity wrt percentages but I will certainly never do the research necessary to validate the claim.
Rick Ballard (5b8f0b) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:21 pmhis name is apocalypse, he remakes the world by reversing the poles, among other, and firing off all the nukes,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:22 pmThey caved because it’s all about the Dough-re-mi.
felipe (429749) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:24 pmYeah, narciso, “act of war, or act of peace?” -retch-
felipe (429749) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:25 pmOf course, if Apoc was transgender, or gender neutral, they would never have objected. That is, until its defeat. Y’know, as hatred of the “other.”
felipe (429749) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:28 pmWhew, glad I got that out of my system.
felipe (429749) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:31 pmI’ll tell you what, though. That scene where Mystique is being strangled, in my opimion, ran a little too long. After a while I was thinking “yeah, we get it!” Alfred Hitchcock would have found it vulgar.
felipe (429749) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:35 pmAnyway, here come the comments changing the topic to a certain candidate in 3,2,…
felipe (429749) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:36 pmSMOD16- The Gender Neutral Candidate!
Rick Ballard (5b8f0b) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:37 pmFelipe,
the movie ran too long. The scene was fine. It was there so you would think she was going to actually die which would be shocking since Jennifer Lawrence has become the biggest name in the group.
But alas, she’s still around to whine about not negotiating well and therefore not getting paid as much as other actors.
NJRob (a07d2e) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:42 pmI thought the movie was never going to end, so yeah by that scene I was already impatient for the denouement. “Actually die.” HAHAHAHAHAHA. No major Mutant ever dies in the X-verse.
felipe (429749) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:48 pmyes, I liked when she went after dinklage in the previous film, but this one already stunk like tauntaun’s entrails,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:48 pmthat’s not actually true, spoiler alert,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:49 pmI appreciate you point about Jennlaw (May I call her that?).
felipe (429749) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:50 pmnarciso (732bc0) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:49 pm
Heh, the spoiler spoiler alert, classic.
felipe (429749) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:52 pmI need a new keyboad, it is beginning to drop and .
felipe (429749) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:57 pmI’m pretending x men the last stand, like galactica 1980 was a figment of someone’s imagination,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:58 pmAnyway, here come the comments changing the topic to a certain candidate in 3,2,…
felipe (429749) — 6/5/2016 @ 5:36 pm
Heh. We could always play “What sort of mutant would a certain candidate be?!”
I am incensed when women like McGowan act seriously concerned about women and the gender being used in a vulgar manner, considering her own public vulgarity. To which Michelle Malkin neatly reminded women everywhere:
Dana (0ee61a) — 6/5/2016 @ 6:02 pmJust need to put a “Make America Great Again” hat on her and doesn’t the violence against women become acceptable?
I saw such a photoshopped image on Twitter last night, alas I can’t find it now.
Brendan (95a301) — 6/5/2016 @ 6:05 pmSpacemanCis Man Nilsson SchmilssonBang, bang, shoot ’em up destiny (bang, bang)
Bang, bang, shoot ’em up in movies (bang, bang)
Bang, bang, shoot ’em up one, two, three (one, two, three, four)
I wanted to be a cis man, that’s what I wanted to be
But now that I am a cis man
McGowan don’t care about me
Hey, Hollyweird, won’t’cha bring me back down safely from the moon?
Around and around and around and around I’m just another blue-faced goon
I wanted to make the big dough, I wanted to play a big part
I knew that it wouldn’t be fun
I felt that way right from the start
I wanted to be a cis man, I wanted to be it so bad
But now that I am a cis man I’m feelin’ like I have been had
Hey, Hollyweird, won’t’cha bring me back down, I’ll even work for free?
Around and around and around and around is just a lot of lunacy (yeah)
(Yeah)
‘Round and around and around and around and around (the shoes of a clown)
‘Round and around and around and around and around, lost and not found
Hey, Hollyweird, it’s all comin’ down another sh*tty movie
And around and around and around and around is all McGowan say to me, yeah
You know I wanted to be a cis man
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 6/5/2016 @ 6:07 pmThat’s what I wanted to be
But now that I am a cis man nobody cares about me
Say hey, you Hollyweird, you better bring me back down
I’ve given you all I can give
You made it real plain this ain’t no place for a cis heteronormative
if one goes back to first class, magneto did much worst to emma frost, with iron posts, she’s made of diamond, she she could crack easy,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/5/2016 @ 6:16 pmMagneto and Titanium man
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 6/5/2016 @ 6:25 pmnow of course, trask deserved what he was going to get, because he was trying to trade state of the art technology to the vietnamese,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/5/2016 @ 6:26 pmNew this fall!
Ronald Rump, a self-made fish monger and “pervayor” of umbrellas, is bitten by a radioactive Orange Roughy, bestowing upon him the uncanny ability to instantly say whatever comes into his head without any reflection or inhibition. Assisted by his faithful side-kick Lewd Kowski, he fights whoever disagrees with him with his equally amazing power, Spitter.
He is: MOACC!
felipe (429749) — 6/5/2016 @ 6:29 pmwell that spider must have bit him 30 years, because he has rarely been at a loss for words, if tony stark was running a campaign, would it be appreciably different, I don’t mean his recent trust in the UN’s good graces,
of course, in the x man retcon, we wouldn’t have had a cuban missile crisis except for sebastian shaw,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/5/2016 @ 6:32 pmRose McGowan has been engaged to both Marilyn Manson and Robert Rodriguez, two sensitive feminists in Hollywood, if there were ever ones.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 6/5/2016 @ 6:50 pmOh, God, make it stop.
Hit it.
Talking Heads – Found A Job (YouTube)
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/5/2016 @ 7:22 pmwell rodriguez, was ok, till he went all insane with machete, and the sequel,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/5/2016 @ 7:24 pmHey. According to the X=Men story arc Erik Lehnsherr, aka Magneto, killed JFK with magnetic course corrections on a magic bullet. Rafael is off the hook.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/5/2016 @ 7:31 pmRose McGowan’s fearless outrage and Twentieth Century Fox’s brave apology…
…remind me of how happy I am that we’ve made the brilliant decision to put women in ground combat.
I’m curious; if someone who outwardly appears to be an ISIS emir tells a female US soldier he identifies as a USMC general, does she have to follow his orders?
Steve57 (e33d44) — 6/5/2016 @ 7:33 pmactually no, the reverse is true, because jfk was a mutant, but the point still stands,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/5/2016 @ 7:36 pmAPOCALYPSE: Alas, poor Mystique. I knew him … her … it, Horatio. A fellow … lady … thing of infinite skin conditions. Tell me something, Horatio!
nk (dbc370) — 6/5/2016 @ 7:40 pmHORATIO: What’s that, my Lord?
APOCALYPSE: Have American movie audiences always been this f***ing stupid?
I’m not worried. I’m actually encouraged. We’ll recruit all the female infantry soldiers at Oberlin and other pricey liberal arts colleges, they’ll come running back to the armored safe space vehicles, and then we’ll arrest ISIS for multiple Title IX violations.
As we’ve seen, if ISIS beheads a few American men, Obama’s only reaction is to give a short speech, visibly irritated somebody interrupted his Martha’s Vineyard vacation and he’ll now be a few minutes late for his tee time.
But title IX violations really get President Bieber angry. That’s some serious sh*t.
Steve57 (e33d44) — 6/5/2016 @ 7:44 pmher career is really going gangbusters,
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000535/
narciso (732bc0) — 6/5/2016 @ 7:46 pmbecause jfk was a mutant as revealed by the Zapruder film. Wait what?
Is this a recent development?
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/5/2016 @ 8:03 pm@26
But did the Crimson Dynamo come along for the ride?
Malclave (cd7ef4) — 6/5/2016 @ 8:21 pmhonestly it makes your hair hurt, he’s a supervillain who destroys whole cities,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/5/2016 @ 8:32 pmThe biggest supervillain is named “Barack.”
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 6/5/2016 @ 8:38 pmit really hasn’t done so well,
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=x-men2016.htm
narciso (732bc0) — 6/5/2016 @ 8:43 pm40 dut da doo dut da doo dat da doo doo doo doo doo
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 6/5/2016 @ 8:43 pmThis must surely have been at the forefront of her mind when she was running around with a .30 cal as a prosthetic leg in that dopey Tarantino flick.
JP (bd5dd9) — 6/6/2016 @ 5:29 amRose McGowan gets rather violently offed in the 2011 remake of Conan the Barbarian.
Howsomeever, if we are going to have a fantasy world in which superheroines are right up there with the superheroes, fighting the supervillians, wouldn’t one expect that the superheroines would be the recipients of, as well as dealers of, violence?
Perhaps the lovely Miss McGowan, of the famous “ass dress” when she went to some awards show with Marilyn Manson, will also be appalled that boys are winning all-state in girls’ track tournaments. (Yes, that was a shameless blog plug.)
The Dana who used to read comic books, back in the sixties and seventies (f6a568) — 6/6/2016 @ 6:47 amThey remade Conan?
(Oh yes, that was definitely a movie I skipped.)
Xmas (3c8969) — 6/6/2016 @ 7:16 amThe sad part is Apoc was actually decently done, till they made him chump out in the end. GURL POWAH!!!
njrob (798696) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:26 amICYMI: Actress Chloe Grace Moretz recently tweeted this regarding the murder-suicide at UCLA:
If you don’t know who Chloe Grace Moretz is off the top of your head, you may know her better after I show you the trailer for her breakthrough role: “Hit Girl” in the Kick-Ass movies.
You may also recall that Jim Carrey, who disgraced himself with a Funny or Die video pissing on the memory of Charlton Heston, also played a gun-toting vigilante in Kick-Ass 2.
L.N. Smithee (b84cf6) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:48 amshe was in that last carrie remake, with julianne moore, if memory serves,
narciso (732bc0) — 6/6/2016 @ 10:50 amI looked at that picture and just saw a little consensual erotic asphyxiation, which I understood to be a perfectly valid form of sexual play. Why would anyone looking at that picture see “violence against women” instead of “two adults enjoying their healthy sex lives?”
I don’t get the prudery of this age.
Pious Agnostic (b25e7f) — 6/6/2016 @ 11:32 amShe is not covered with “blue gills”. Blue scales, maybe. Of if you meant “bluegills”, a species of fish, they’re mostly silvery, and think of the smell. So, haha you made a mistake, and as far as you know I never make any.
Neil Ferguson (1eb56a) — 6/6/2016 @ 12:13 pmshe’s only blue cause of she can’t breath with him holding her like that
she’s like hello not breathing, and the dude could not be more indifferent
it’s a metaphor for the economy in the obama years really if you think about it
which this Rose chick obviously did not
happyfeet (831175) — 6/6/2016 @ 4:06 pmGills or scales… thankfully not acid, Neil Ferguson.
Dana (0ee61a) — 6/6/2016 @ 7:00 pmhttp://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/06/sad-leftie-cher-shows-balls-paul-ryan-condemning-mob-beatings-san-jose/
mg (31009b) — 6/7/2016 @ 3:20 amWe are screwed sideways with Paul the commie Ryan.
The correct response Fox should have made:
“It is Fox’s unequivocal position that violence against women is bad. It may surprise our critics to learn that fictional villains are often depicted doing bad things… this is why they’re referred to as “bad guys”. It is reprehensible for them to trivialize real violence by conflating it with fictional stories. They should be the ones issuing an apology to every real victim they distracted from with their nonsensical temper tantrum.”
Captain Obvious (14cc4d) — 6/7/2016 @ 5:05 pm