art
noun
- some children's game to see who can score the most points

What no one wants to say out loud is that Selma is a well-crafted movie,but there’s no art to it. If the movie had been directed by a 60-year-old white male, I don’t think that people would have been carrying on about it to the level that they were.

They are saying it's offensive.

“I’ve got three daughters, so I’m all for female empowerment."

Uh…I'm not in jail. But I feel kind of sad today. Also, I'm not Bill Cosby.

All I care about is if he can do a quality rendition of Batdance. He'll never match the original but if he can almost do it partial justice, I'm okay with this.

It doesn't matter to me that you don't agree with the people who find the last scene offensive.

As for the intended result, I'd imagine they'd like to call attention to it and hope that women were treated better in the future.

It sounds like everyone who has said that this scene was offensive articulated the reasons for it pretty clearly, including "why it is such a thing or how that influences the world around oneself."

If you read my replies to the other person who replied to me, you will see further what I was questioning.

What I was attempting to put forward with the use of that phrasing (that something is thought to "inherently mean something") is the notion that it means something beyond the evident definition. As in, there seems to be an unspoken meaning beneath it as far as many are concerned yet which isn't actually there.…

As I have stressed elsewhere, because she elevates the matter from a kiss to anal sex, she is pursuing anal sex which makes him a reward for her (and saving the world incidental…as he was clearly going to do so anyway).

Her agency, though, is wanting to have sex with the lead character because he saved the world.

Yes, the owner is taking initiative and wants to reward me, but the reward is still for me, just as this scene (stepping outside the characters heads for a moment) reinforces the stereotype that female characters are a reward for the action hero.

It's a pretty narrow perspective in this instance.

Because women wanting sex is inappropriate if it isn't in the "right" contexts as designated by generalities (or various ideologies) about what women should or shouldn't be or should or shouldn't do or on and on. Why, it's almost as if there are unreasonable standards placed upon women often by those who are other…

I disagree - she is the one who initiates it being sexual. Eggsy is essentially naive in what he wants as a reward, wanting a kiss from a Princess. She is the one who immediately elevates the matter to anal sex, she is the one who seems to immediately relish in the opportunity/prospect, etc.

Your last point is very interesting and possibly should be more along the lines of where my argument is or is headed. Regardless, it felt like a subversion of a trope to me. Not a particularly well-handled subversion, certainly, but it seemed like she was the one amplifying the sexual tension and he was just the guy…

I think the film is meant to be rather outrageous in most regards. It turned a trope on its head a bit. Not perfectly, no, but the intent was evident and the result was still a woman initiating sexual contact with a man of her own free will (he seemed to have rather small ambitions and she showed no desperation - due…

Thank you for the information. I apologize for misconstruing matters. That some of these women were notably forthright in their sexual desires is interesting (although I was aware of that to some degree) although, while the "vixen" is a common element of Bond's films, I question if these inclusions were often at the…