I loved the movie and have probably seen it well over a dozen times. For it's visual finesse, it's depth, and it's honey trap bullshit. That's all I'll be saying about my opinion of the movie because...
Feminism? Really? We're doing this again?
Goddammit.
As much as men and women lambast men and women (mostly men...mostly) for their objectification of the "fairer sex", women sure as hell love objectifying themselves. I'm going to make the same arguments I and others have made for years; Cosmetics or cosmetic surgery, bras that push breasts up to a woman's neck, skimpy outfits, short skirts, plunging necklines, there is a list as long as life itself of things women do to themselves with absent regularity to objectify themselves that far exceed whatever men do to objectify them. This is just for starters, and I really hate running off this idea first, but with regard to media such as movies, music, and video games, women are doing this to themselves far more than men are actually capable of accomplishing if even it were our sole purpose in existence to objectify women and nothing else.
Booth Babes aren't forced at gunpoint to don tight outfits, neither are singers or other female musicians. Gone are the days when dazed and glazed (and modestly clothed) Stevie Nicks could charm a crowd, now we have pop-tarts shaking their asses at us, or underage teen women (may as well since they're selling sex too) in heavy makeup and tight outfits pandering to young lust for sales. I know it goes both ways here, but the subject if misandry is often sidelined because anything any man could experience as far as objectification is concerned pales to what poor oppressed women must endure by we penis-wielding rape monsters.
Actresses; have you seen how these women dress? Have you seen what they do off camera. Not sure I've seen many these days that haven't posed ass-end at cameras on red-carpet events. My favorite actress is arguably not even a sexy one, she's just extremely talented (Glenn Close if you wanted to know).
Anything intended to be an expressly feminist or a feminist friendly media product is simply pandering to an unrealistic fear of something that doesn't actually exist. Men in many cases have fewer rights than women, as well as fewer protections, supports, and available resources to expressly their benefit. Statistically men are actually victimized by women in matters of domestic violence, sexual abuse, and non-reciprocal domestic violence by their intimate female partner than women are by their men. These are facts (I don't want to drag citations into this but I will if I have to).
Don't even get me started in the everything else category; when was the last time we heard about prostate cancer awareness month, Prostate Cancer Awareness Yogurt, Tic Tacs, Barbie or other toys? Where are the Prostate Cancer awareness ribbons? What's the color for prostate cancer awareness anyway? No where? Now let's remove prostate cancer and replace it with "breast cancer". Everywhere, especially during breast cancer awareness month. The rub, for those of you out of the loop, Prostate cancer kills a great deal more men than breast cancer kills women anally, by an extremely wide margin. Funding? Breast cancer awareness and support (I use this word in the general sense) receive far more funding than prostate cancer, by an extremely wide margin.
I digress, radically...
The idea that a movie like Sucker Punch, despite it's messy writing, direction or editing, and it's heavy-handed sexual tone in some way is an affront to females and a misogynistic film by any stretch of the imagination is absolute garbage, and anyone making this claim has none of the facts and may or may not be living in reality.
Feminists or their sympathizers can attempt all they want to cry foul about it, video games, etcetera, but in doing this, in making an issue where none exists they persist in proving they haven't a solid thing to stand on, and are in fact themselves the real problem.
