It's not sexism, it's a fear of profitability.

Action movies aren't the same thing as super hero movies. Super hero movies are a specific genre, like westerns, it's a false equivalency to compare them with every movie with vague similarity like a Lucy. Or an Aeon Flux. Or John Carter.

The point is that nobody supports them when they get made. That's why they don't keep getting made.

Things that make money, happen. Support Elektra. Or Catwoman. Or Supergirl. It's not like it hasn't been tried.

Isn't this kind of content restriction one of the exact issues people were so happy to see the internet circumvent when the internet was a new thing?

http://youtu.be/kt3Oj-Dq-MM Nice speech from a middling 90's movie on the virtues of techno music.

I'm really surprised on all the stuff I'm not seeing mentioned in the article or in the comments I've read through so far. Takashi Miike's film Visitor Q made me gag during the necrophilia scene. The whole film experience left me feeling molested, it's a great movie. 
Gyorgy Palfi's Taxidermia really hits the nausea…