A Review on "One Man" (TA Post)

        After watching the video on the "One Man" Movie Trailer Supercut, I was astonished. I have never really thought deeply about movie trailers before. I mean, we see them all the time, everywhere. They just kind of play through the back of your mind, and you don't really analyze the mass effects that they can have on society. The whole video took short clips from trailers that follow the "one ____" theme. Almost all of the videos filled in the blank with the word "man". In the trailers with women as the main character, the blank almost never read "woman". Instead it was filled in with words like "stranger", "person", and "thing". These kind of words make you wonder if the producers of these movies are actually trying to avoid using the word "woman" in the trailers. It sure seems like it. After all, the vast majority of trailers with male protagonists use phrases like "It's up to one man to save the world" and "Only one man could restore peace".  When woman are brought into the picture, why is it that they are more often than not referred to in ways that transform them into something that can be put into one's possession rather than an actual person? By declaring loudly that the main female character was "the one thing that he needed", trailers are becoming questionable on the terms of gender equality. Even at times when it would be perfectly acceptable to say, "The rest was up to one woman", the producers insist upon saying things like "The rest was up to one person". Why is it that men can be referred to as "men", but woman cannot be referred to as "woman"? Until these past few weeks, I had never observed the hidden messages of movie trailers and TV shows. It frustrates me that the writers of screenplay tend to portray woman as weaker characters than men. By avoiding the term "woman" in trailers, it suggests that they are not meant to have the best roles in stories and that they don't have as much character development as men do. This is, of course, not true in the slightest. All people can have strong characters, regardless of their gender. It truly amazes me that anyone would think otherwise. If someone is making a movie trailer about a woman, why not just say "woman"? It really makes no sense. Well, I think that concludes my long rant about gender equality!