The pop culture news from last week includes hype for the upcoming summer blockbuster, "Suicide Squad." The film released a new trailer last Tuesday, which caused immediate buzz. With a star-studded cast featuring Viola Davis, Will Smith, Cara Delevingne, Jared Leto, and several others, this film is expected to generate lots of revenue and receive phenomenal reviews/ratings.

Now, I love superhero movies, and the "Suicide Squad" seems to be awesome. The whole concept of a group of misfit-supervillains forced to band together seems super interesting. However, there is one fairly large problem with the trailer that was released last week. This is the issue of the over-sexualization of Margot Robbie’s character, Harley Quinn.

Recently, Harley Quinn has risen in popular as a villain and generally as a fictional character- thus, Robbie’s performance has been highly anticipated as well as the character’s portrayal in the upcoming film. If this new trailer is any indication, then it seems as if what had the potential to be an excellent character has somewhat fallen through the cracks and succumbed to the sexist monster that is Hollywood. Although Robbie has a considerable amount of screen-time in the trailer, most of those scenes consisted of the sexualization of Harley Quinn. Whether it was Quinn crooning a simple “Hi, boys,” or one of the final cuts of the trailer featuring Robbie bending down as Quinn to steal something, it is evident that Robbie’s character in this film is not so much made of substance as it is a source of sex appeal.

What’s frustrating here is that in the year 2016, there appears to be a new superhero movie with quite a diverse cast that has so much potential, and simply fails to represent men and women equally in the world of superheroes and villains. "Suicide Squad" had the opportunity to be a movie where the sexist stereotypes given to this genre could have been torn down- instead, it appears as if the movie is giving in and calling it a day. Will Smith and Jared Leto are of course presented as “smart” and “serious” villains, so to speak, while Robbie appears aloof and ditzy. There is more to be said about the depiction of other female characters, including Delevingne as Enchantress and Karen Fukuhara as Katana as well, but the main female focus of the trailer was on Quinn.

The bottom line here is that I’m disappointed. Sure, the movie has a great plot. Sure, it has a phenomenal cast. Sure, it has a crazy amount of excitement surrounding it on the internet. However, it is simply impossible to overlook the facts given to us from a two minute and thirty second trailer.

You can disagree with me as much as you want, but this is simply the way it is. The beloved "Suicide Squad" is conforming to the sexist mentality most superhero films have had since the beginning of time, and it is quite a shame.