Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor, and Antman all have scenes that feature the male protagonists shirtless--and in front of female characters! This disgusting and immoral objectification of men must end. The fact that multiple Marvel movies have consistently included scenes of this nature reveals a great disregard for men and disrespects them deeply. I am personally offended as a male that any movie would incorporate such blatant evil and sexism.
When you read the title for this post, I suspect you didn't anticipate this.
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| Why do some people seem to think the bottom image objectifies the person shown but the top image doesn't? What if objectification has nothing to do with poses or clothing but the heart of the one objectifying another person? |
Hold on--I'm not serious at all. I'm actually very amused by my mock rage in the preceding paragraph. Few people, if anyone, would take me seriously if I honestly meant what I said above, and with good reason. But at the same time, some people act and speak as if involving a female character wearing minimal clothing in a movie automatically degrades her and all women by extension, as evidenced by " wonderful philosophers" like whoever wrote this [1], yet I have not heard of anyone criticizing Marvel films for "objectifying" men by displaying them without shirts, though I have noticed more than one website implying or stating that Enchantress' costume in the recent Suicide Squad movie as shown on the cover of an Empire magazine is sexist and wrong. Sexism is the belief that women possess lesser intrinsic value than males (or vice versa) or that they have no value and thus discriminating against one gender according to those beliefs. This has absolutely nothing to do with how much clothing someone wears or chooses to shirk from.
For those wondering, here you can find the picture of the magazine cover referred to on this site [1]. There is nothing "sexist" about this image, but I need to mention that the title of the article is highly alarming--it falsely labels Enchantress's costume sexist but then proceeds to say it is "worse" that it is inaccurate to the comics. Really? There is nothing inappropriate or inherently degrading about a metallic bikini. Get over it Americans. Your logic is untrained at best and a disrespect to ethical philosophy and theology at worst. However, to call it sexist but then include in the title the indefensible statement that the inaccuracy of deviating from the comics is worse than sexism? People never cease to stupefy me. Obviously, I am being entirely facetious with my objection to Marvel films and felt like highlighting an absurd double-standard and the criticisms of Enchantress that rest on idiotic assumptions [2].
Complaining about revealing female comic book character clothes while not even mentioning the shirtless males in superhero movies is utterly inconsistent and perhaps even sexist (apparently to these people women should never be depicted like this but men can be), but it's just intellectually unsupportable and logically wrong to condemn any of it. Objectification exists and is a very depraved thing, but very few people truly understand what it is and what it is not. Arguing that the Enchantress costume in Suicide Squad does not conform to the comics is a valid point, yet an irrelevant one (as superheroes often look at least slightly different in their film debuts than they do in their respective comics). But labeling it sexist or objectifying is laughably incorrect.
In other posts, I have proven that:
Lack of or absence of clothing does not inherently have anything to do with sexuality.
There is no such thing as clothing that doesn't "cover enough".
The human body is not sinful or evil and should not be shunned or feared.
Finding someone physically or sexually attractive does not objectify them; objectification is something else.
Clothing has absolutely nothing to do with whether someone is sexist or not.
See the footnotes for links to previous posts where I deconstruct and refute common beliefs about "modesty" in clothing and the definition of sexual objectification. And yes, I saw Suicide Squad. The viewing experience made me wish the script for the film had committed suicide before its release and spared us from it.
[1]. http://www.hitfix.com/harpy/the-enchantress-costume-from-suicide-squad-is-sexistand-worse-inaccurate
[2]. The "idiotic assumptions" are that any lack of clothing objectifies someone, that viewing someone in such a state could possibly objectify someone, and that females are endangering themselves to sexism when they decide to wear or abstain from wearing certain clothing. To read about why such beliefs embody nonsense of a very amusing kind, see here:
1. https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-folly-of-modesty-part-1.html
2. http://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2016/07/can-clothing-objectify.html
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