HOLLYWOOD, June 3 (UPI) — Actress Rose McGowan cried foul when sharing a Facebook post slamming a poster promoting X-Men: Apocalypse, saying it showed casual violence against women and is unacceptable.
The billboard poster features Oscar Isaac’s Apocalypse choking Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique.
McGowan elaborated in the Facebook post: “There is a major problem when the men and women at 20th 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. The geniuses behind this, and I use that term lightly, need to to take a long hard look at the mirror and see how they are contributing to society.”
Had the poster shown a black man being strangled by a white man, or a gay man being strangled by a heterosexual, the cries would be loud and long, she said. “So, let’s right this wrong. 20th Century Fox, since you can’t manage to put any women directors on your slate for the next two years, how about you at least replace your ad?”
She continued: “I’ll close with a text my friend sent, a conversation with his daughter. It follows: ‘My daughter and I were just having a deep discussion on the brutality of that hideous X-Men poster yesterday. Her words: ‘Dad, why is that monster man committing violence against a woman?’ This from a 9-year-old. If she can see it, why can’t Fox?”
The image has also been criticized on the East Coast, according to the Hollywood Reporter. EV Grieve, a New York blogger, posted a photo of the poster above a subway station in the city at First Avenue and 14th Street that had been covered up with eight pieces of paper. The papers connected to say “This violence in my kid’s face is not okay.”
Twitter users also drew attention to the image, which has been sighted on billboards in Los Angeles and New York.
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