So you may have heard vague rumors that there’s a new Mad Max film coming out. You also may have heard that it stars Charlize Theron as a shaven-headed postapocalyptical badass named Furiosa alongside Tom Hardy as Mr. Max.
Well, the manly men of the Manospshere are having none of it. On the always terrible Return of Kings, the most-trafficked blog in the Manosphere, Youtube bloviator Aaron Clarey issues a clarion call to his fellow right-thinking men, urging them to
Not only REFUSE to see the movie, but spread the word to as many men as possible. … Because if [men] sheepishly attend and Fury Road is a blockbuster, then you, me, and all the other men (and real women) in the world will never be able to see a real action movie ever again that doesn’t contain some damn political lecture or moray about feminism, SJW-ing, and socialism.
Er, “moray?”
As Clarey sees it, the central flaw in this film that he hasn’t seen is, well, it’s going to be starring Charlize Theron as a shaven-headed postapocalyptical badass named Furiosa. And that’s just not right, because everyone knows that women are just too damn womeny to be postapocalyptical badasses.
Even worse: in one of the trailers for the film “Charlize Theron’s character barked orders to Mad Max. Nobody barks orders to Mad Max.”
Clarey also reports, with a kind of growing horror, that none other than Eve Ensler, of Vagina Monologues fame, was brought in to consult on the film. (And trust me, Clarey’s discomfort with Ensler has nothing to do with her issues with intersectionality.)
Sure, Clarey acknowledges, Fury Road — at least on the surface — “looks like that action guy flick we’ve desperately been waiting for where it is one man with principles, standing against many with none.” But, he warns, despite not having actually seen even a minute of the actual film, nothing could be further from the truth!
[L]et us be clear. … This is the Trojan Horse feminists and Hollywood leftists will use to (vainly) insist on the trope women are equal to men in all things, including physique, strength, and logic. And this is the subterfuge they will use to blur the lines between masculinity and femininity, further ruining women for men, and men for women.
Lines between masculinity and femininity blurring! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes. The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!
Clarey worries that
men in America and around the world are going to be duped by explosions, fire tornadoes, and desert raiders into seeing what is guaranteed to be nothing more than feminist propaganda, while at the same time being insulted AND tricked into viewing a piece of American culture ruined and rewritten right in front of their very eyes.
You might think that someone this worried about the legacy of the original Mad Max might have noticed somewhere along the way that Mad Max is not actually a “piece of American culture” at all. It was an Australian film, filmed in Australia, directed by an Australian, and starring an American citizen who’d been living in Australia since the age of twelve.
I’m guessing that the director of Fury Road might have a somewhat more nuanced understanding of the original Mad Max than someone who doesn’t even know what country the movie was made in, especially given that the director of Fury Road, the director of the original Mad Max, the director of The Road Warrior and the director of Beyond Thunderdome are actually all the very same person.
But over on Return of Kings the fellas are as furious about Furiosa as Clarey is. In the top comment to Clarey’s piece, with several dozen upvotes, someone calling himself “truth” complains that the evil feminists who run Hollywood are ignoring the immutable truths of gender.
Hollywood is a garbage propoganda machine which spews out this feminist drivel filth into the minds of today’s young audience. Even though science has told us and proven, that men are physically stronger than women, it is nonetheless discarded by the forces driving this feminist nonsense.
There is a sick agenda at play here, and it only continues to get worse over time. First this, and now the upcoming “Terminator Genisys” which shows Sarah Connor in a more heroic and superior position to that of Kyle Reese, really makes me wonder how much further down the toilet society is going to go down, in it’s ridiculous attempts to try and reverse the traditional gender and biological roles.
Because “traditional” and “biological” roles always seem to be the exact same thing to these guys.
It is clear that the brainwashing of the masses will continue to go on with the promotion of these absurd movies in conjunction with the whole “girl power” themes that are present in these films. Furthermore, factor in the indoctrination of the liberal schooling and educational system, there is no doubt, that masculinity will be attacked from all sides in attempt to make the female gender more superior. …
I guess from the damage that I am seeing on a daily basis being inflicted by the feminist movement, there is really no turning back. Men will continue to opt out of society and by rejecting to watch these kind of movies, can help to further cement this narrative. And if ever, should the manginas and white knights reach that epiphany when they realise they are not perceived as a credible voice in this feminist driven gynocentric matriarchy that we live in, then even they will opt out of society.
Huh. And, let me guess, once the men all “opt out of society,” it’ll collapse in a giant heap and desperate women will turn to men for help? No wonder these guys are so angry about Fury Road; it challenges their favorite apocalyptic fantasy. Call it Mad Max: I Told You Bitches You’d Come Crawling Back to Me.
Women and feminists in general have without a doubt, proven that they are dysfunctional by nature and cannot be trusted with anything. And this movie helps to prove it.
FWIW, dude, the movie was directed by a man. It was written by men. And even though it’s got a lot more women in it than your typical action movie, most of the named actors in it are male. But apparently, to guys like Clarey and “truth,” it only takes a few drops of female blood to contaminate an entire action film.
Always maintain your masculinity.
And once again it’s the guys who think of themselves as the most macho who are the ones most anxious about their masculinity.
Truth is also horrified by one of the posters he’s seen for the film:
Even though the movie is called “Mad Max”, the poster clearly centres around Charlize Theron, while Tom Hardy looks like some ordinary guy in the background.
A woman’s face … in front of a man’s face! Can masculinity survive this terrible assault?
Slashfund complains that in the poster it “looks like he is wearing a muzzle like her bitch.”
Well, not really. Anyone who’s seen the original Max Max and its first two sequels may remember that a lot of the characters wore weird headgear and creepy masks; this was intended to make them look scary and, you know, postapocalyptic. Max’s new mask is no different.
Clark Kent whines
Where I can’t stand these female characters in kickass movies is when it is so damn obvious that they are forcing the female character in just to appeal to the blue-pill masses. The whole point of Mad Max is that he is the most hardened self-respecting man in the post-apocalyptic world. He lived through the decline, and thus carries all the grief of having been strong enough to see what the world has become.
To turn Mad Max upside down and make it into a feminist flick is horribly telling of our times. Rather than creating new films to depict the world from a women’s perspective, we take the great myths of men and boys and rewrite them to make women happy.
What? Mad Max is a “great myth of men and boys” now? It’s a movie made in 1979, not a tale told around the campfire by our ancient ancestors. And don’t any of you Return of Kingers remember Beyond Thunderdome, the second Mad Max sequel, released six years after the original? You know, the one co-starring Tina Turner, stomping around like a badass as the ruthless ruler of Bartertown?
Like it or not, fellas, but badass women are part of Mad Max canon.
MajorStyles, for his part, suggests that the film may be part of a sinister plot to con men into liking women with (gasp!) short hair — a major Manosphere bugaboo.
And what’s the end game of all this horse shit? That Alpha men will start finding bald, androgyonous women with anger issues attractive? Yeah, when pigs fly…
Again, another fail on the part of Team Feminism. As it has been noted many times, they do not get to order men what to be attracted to. Erections cannot be legislated. Only a man of supreme thirst would find this angynous thing attractive.
And the women who choose to impersonate Theron’s look in this movie will always be relagated to the same position – bridesmaid, cat lady, or beta male abuser.
TS77RP1, meanwhile, wants his fellow men to think of the children. And what he thinks about the children — specifically, those of the female persuasion — is genuinely horrifying.
Seriously: if you’re having a decent day so far, or, hell, a crappy one — basically, if you’re a having any sort of day so far, you may want to skip the rest of this post. No joke.
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Ok, if you’re still with me, here we go:
The only way back is to begin punishing ambition in our daughters and in all female children. They need to be physically and psychologically disciplined to be servile and deferential and they unfortunately need to have it beaten into them that they should NEVER trust their own judgement and always seek guidance and permission of their male headships.
Please tell me this monster doesn’t have a daughter.
My daughter would be turned out with nothing but a shirt on her back if she so much as looked at a college website or played with her brother’s educational toys.
Aw, fuck.
She would be belted to the point of being unable to sit if she exhibited confidence in decision making.
Fucking hell. A proud abuser.
I don’t want my wife to step foot out of the house unless her every dime and minute spent can be accounted for and executed in conjuncture with my approval. My daughter will exude obedience and timidity for whoever her future husband is and it’s imperative that all Christian Men demand nothing less within their own homes. Playtime for feminazis and the left is over. This is our world and our heritage to protect. Let the cultural war begin!
No words.
In a followup comment, he assures one skeptic that his wife and daughter are indeed real.
I do in fact implement this in my own home and practice what I preach vehemently. I have a daughter and sons and they are being raised to know that they are unequivocally different and 100% not equal. My wife is from a highly devout family and she was cowed long ago into obedience by her powerful, alpha father. I kinda won the life lottery >:^)
I can only hope that he’s bullshitting in an attempt to impress the Return of Kings regulars.
But impress them he does, winning upvotes and an awestruck comment by englishbob:
Wow! Its like you have a mini Saudi Arabia right in your home!
Apparently hatred of women trumps hatred of Muslims on Return of Kings.
I have no idea if Mad Max: Fury Road is actually going to be a good film. But I hope it does well, very well, if for no other reason than to spite these assholes.
Why are you not reporting this to the authorities?!
Seriously, he’s admitted to physically beating his daughter and possibly his wife. That has to warrant some kind of crime?!
I’m opting out of this version of Mad Max. The lure of the “Mad Max” and “Road Warrior” was its character as a “guy movie”. I like the explosions, the guns, etc., but the highly idealized portrayals of males in these films, whether they be categorized in the “action” of “thriller” genres, is central to this type of cinema. This is no different than female characterizations being central to a film like, say, “Steel Magnolias”. The feminine element is central and that’s okay.
Masculine cinema is a male space. It’s the place where male portrayals are not only central but uniquely male. It could be Clint Eastwood playing the dreamer who goes his own way in “Bronco Billy”, Harvey Keitel in a state of manly decadence and decay in “Bad Lieutenant”, or Meng Lo brandishing a cocky nobility as the Toad in “Five Deadly Venoms”. Film, like all other artistic mediums, can have its versimilitude severely eroded with the injection of political messaging. Eve Ensler’s input in the latest Mad Max reasonably leads one to believe that “Mad Max” as a male space is compromised by an agenda that spoils the entertainment value “guy movies” are characteristic of.
As I said, I like Sara Connor (Terminator) and I like Vasquez (Aliens). There was, in my opinion, the use of strong and bad ass female characterizations that didn’t seem forced. Ensler’s input seems to open the possibility of an clumsy insertion of a characterization that corrupts the film. I saw this in SWAT with the introduction of the Chris Sanchez character. It was forced and awkward as if a female quota were being filled rather than having a feminine presence that was organic to the overall film’s character.
My interest in this film is gone due to past experiences with this type of awkwardness as well as a set of preferences I developed from years of enjoying “masculine artforms”. For me, the guy film is like reading something by Richard Wright. I want no Alice Walker in my Richard Wright stories. When I want Alice Walker then I’ll read “Temple of My Familiar” instead of “Big Boy Leaves Home”.
Chelsea solis
We did but chances are that he deleted his comments and account
Um, Ripley is the lead in all Alien movies. She is also a badass.
Maybe if they actually treated women in movies as people instead of “a female” then maybe it wouldn’t be forced and awkward?
And, like many people have been saying before, Mad Max has badass female characters that are just as badass as Mad Max who are not “forced and awkward”. Why don’t you go actually watch those and see?
LOL! Aren’t you just precious?
Right, right, because women being active agents is “political messaging” but men being active agents in some way isn’t political at all. ??? How does that work, exactly? Do you think “men are active, women are prizes to be won” isn’t a political message? That certainly looks like it’s both a message and political in nature. Do you think political messaging shuts off when straight white men are the beneficiaries of it?
I mean, what makes a character “awkward and forced” is shitty writing or a bad actor, not the fact that the character is a certain gender.
Woman who loves action, sci-fi and fantasy movies and can’t stand chick flicks here.
Now what, fucko?
… Congratulations on writing the most clueless sentence ever shat out by a human being! Spoiler alert: Art and politics are intertwined. Every Goddamn movie ever made has had a political message in it somewhere. (Also, it’s spelled “Verisimilitude” and I do not think it means what you think it means, Vizzini.)
@AlFromBayShore:
“Masculine cinema” is not a male space. You don’t understand what “X space” means, nor that “masculine” and “feminine” are ultimately just labels society has for traits that are independent of the gender of the person that has them.
If you only want to view “masculine” men, fine. This movie is about a “masculine” woman. Not every movie in a genre must fit into a narrow subset of that genre, and it’s not a “corruption” or an “invasion” for a movie to not cater to your particular preferences.
* Note that I’m using “masculine” and “feminine” just as labels, with the understanding that those labels shouldn’t be used because of the close coupling with gender.
Sorry y’all but gender differences are real in spite what ideology you use to deny the obvious. Gender differences manifest as aesthetic preferences. There is a reason why men read Imamu Baraka more frequently than Nikki Giovanni. You guys are trying to conform aesthetic preference according ideological dogma. You guys are no different than the social conservatives who try to use “morality” as a criteria by which to make aesthetic judgements. In so many ways, the far left is identical to the social conservatives and reactionaries. Nice job!
@ Goddamn Batman
Isn’t this just another example of Hollywood featuring a woman in all the advertising at the expense of the title character; like that previous poster complained about? 😉
You know nothing of film, John Shmo.
Why didn’t you answer my question? How is it that “women are active agents” is a political message, but “men are active, and women are prizes” is not? Do you actually understand what the word “political” means?
I will tell you up front that I am a political scientist, so think your answer through and don’t just whip out the first bullshit that comes to mind.
Lea, if your short, vague, and non hollow comment is any indication of your understanding of film then I’ll be sure to remember your name so as not to make the mistake of asking your opinion of film in general. Thanx for the heads up!
The film you have not seen. 0.o
Weasel words do not hide the fact that by “seems” you mean “I made that shit up on the spot”.
Hey, just thinking, does the “Stay away from her you bitch” scene in Aliens pass the Bechdel test?
I loved the first 3 Mad Max movies so can’t avoid seeing this one even though I’m scared by many early reviews that indicate they’ve seriously screwed over the world and character that was established in the first 3 movies.
I have no problem with taking it to a different angle with a woman being the focus, since it shows other aspects of the post-apocalyptic society and what both genders could become just to survive. My only complaint is that I liked the Mad Max character, not just the world he is set in, and even though the film is called Mad Max, he apparenlty doesn’t even appear in it much, which feels like false advertising. If they’re going to do that then I wish they ‘d have called the movie anything other than Mad Max and not have him in it at all.
I’m all for equality but I REALLY hope this new MM is just popcorn and entertainment, not yet another thinly disguised brainwashing by the radicals that apparently now run Hollywood to man-bash and propagandize their idea of PeeCee agenda. If it is then I will seriously be walking out and asking for a refund.
However unlike many commenters around the web making judgements on a movie they can’t have seen yet, I will reserve my judgment about that until I have seen it so can actually know what I’m talking about.
Policy of Madness, I made a point of identifying a difference between clumsy insertions of female characterizations (the Chris Sanchez character in SWAT) versus the organic usage thereof (Ripley, Sara Connor). My point is lost on you but this seem to be the result of your belief that a pigskin that reads “Political Science” is an adequate substitute for deep thought. I’ll put my 8 years as a landscaper up against your career as a “political scientist” any day of the week. The result will always be the same.
As a side note, (Mr) Al From Bay Shore (‘s BEACH) might be the sockiest username to ever sock.
Way to go M., just broadcast to the world that you have no meaningful response by using only epithets and insults. Nice job!
@AlFromBayShore
Everyone has different aesthetic preferences. Everyone has different preferences on a lot of things. For instance, I don’t like rom coms or many action movies, but I do like horror. comedies, and action movies with supernatural/sci-fi elements (Total Recall, Zombieland, Underworld, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunter).
But, you know, the point is that Mad Max has always had female characters like Charlize Theron’s. Maybe you should go back and pay attention to them instead of being distracted by the pretty colors and explosions?
That post-apocalyptic movie katz posted, which is titled “Ocean Maker” is one good short. It should be made into a feature film, especially a live-action one. It should cast an Asian woman as the pilot, so it won’t have “white-washed” casting for the lead roles. For those not familiar with white-washing in casting it means casting a white person for a role that was originally created as a non-white person.
Again, why is “men are active agents, women are passive prizes” not a political message? For such a deep and profound thinker, you’re really evading the hell out of that question.
I’m educated. You are … unknown. Now is your time to prove that you’re all that and a ball of wax: answer the very simple, straightforward question I have asked you now for the third time.
Well, that devolved quickly. What’s the matter Al, can you only pull out sophisticated-sounding words for one post?
Also, what in the blue blazes do “gender differences” have to do with action movies and leading ladies or gentlemen? Even if the types of gender differences you think are set in stone actually are, what the hell does that have to do with fictional characters in a fictional movie played by actors?
Is the guy who stated that badass female leads are possible going to turn around and say women can’t act in action roles?
Adventure movies aren’t “masculine.” What an embarrassingly stupid thing to say!