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.
This is an under-rated gem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_%28film%29
@AlFromBayShow:
Alright, let’s plant the mobile goal posts here. Answer M.’s objection:
Keep in mind that women have been into action, sci-fi, and fantasy for as long as they’ve existed. If you define a “guy” genre by the gender of its fans, how do you explain away the women who enjoy “guy” genres? How does being a “guy” genre imply that women can’t be in the leading role?
Your examples of “masculine” vs “feminine” genres and stories have way more differences than just the gender of the lead. Why is this version of mad max with a focus on a bad-ass female lead in a post-apocalyptic society automatically not “masculine?”
Can you honestly not handle not having the main character be the same gender as you? Congrats; you’re getting a small taste of the real frustration women have with the genre.
AlfromBayShore
No, sorry. Jane Austen wrote novels about which Alan Robertshore made a joking reference to people studying those novels to understand English Property Law of a certain period.
Eiliah Muhammad did not write novels. I fail to see the point you are making. One was a religious leader, the other a novelist.
I’m just laughing my ass off about how someone who insists that art is ‘better’ when divorced from ‘politics’ thinks he’s a ‘deep thinker’.
I mean “art forms deliberately subordinated to politics and ideology” basically describes every major art movement… ever.
Alan,
Well then that movie wasn’t really an action film was it? There was a love story that was central to the plot and a message about the indomitable human spirit. In fact, it is the power of love that saves the protagonist. According to the other Al, that cancels out the action.
@AlFromBayShore
That’s the thing, though. If writers and directors treat a woman character as a person rather than just a female character, then they wouldn’t be just inserted clumsily would they?
Take any role Sigourney Weaver has been in. Has any of her roles ever felt “clumsily inserted”? No! That’s because they were written as fully fledged characters instead of just someone tits and ass with no personality for some musclehead to fuck at the end.
Hit-Girl in Kickass was not clumisly inserted because she’s a fully fledged character. Neytiri from Avatar was not clumsily inserted because she’s a fully fledged character. Leeloo was not clumsily inserted because she was a full fledged character. Every female mutant in the X-Men series, every female action character in the Dark Knight Rises, Hermione, Leia, Helen and Violet Parr, Black Widow–they were not clumsily inserted because they had characterization and were properly written to be actual people rather than some quota to be reach or a reward for the main character at the end.
What you’re complaining about is badly written films, not women in action roles.
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Demand action films to have better quality of writing and do not blame this on female characters, but the writers who have no idea how to make actually fully-fledged characters.
Lea, I was ignoring you at first due to your constant use of epithet. You can certainly do better.
I wonder how long it’ll be before Alifornia fucks up with his copy-pasting of obscure names picked from Google and tries to reference the works of Milburn Pennybags or Mr Clean.
Sorry @Alan Robertshaw for misspelling your surname.
Speaking of Jane Austen, I don’t normally watch romances but I loved the characters in The Jane Austen Book Club and how they identified with the characters in the book within the movie. Very cute stuff.
@ smithshadow
Actually it was a serious recommendation by the lecturer. English property law is pretty weird but reading Austen really gives you the context to see how it evolved.
Also the books are pretty good stories anyway; they have great characters. I guess there’s a reason there are so many adaptions.
@M.
If smithshadow is right, he referenced an author who never wrote books, so…
@Alan Robertshaw
I like the ones with zombies and sea witches.
M., you figured me out! You’ve discovered my lies! You’ve exposed my fraud! I believe the NYPD exam is coming up! You should take it, you’d make a GREAT police officer! I believe one of the testing sites is Springfield Gardens High School. Just get off the Belt Pkwy at Farmers Blvd and make a right (that’s if you are coming from Long Island). Go for it! After a few years, you can be a detective!
@ smithshadow
No worries. My surname is in itself a spelling mistake (it’s a corruption of Robichaux)
@alan robertshaw, extremely popular adaptations, too. the zombie action one is being made into a movie starring FIVE kickass female characters, too, based on an adaptation written by a man. It’s almost like narratives appeal to a wide audience as a general rule and both genders enjoy romance AND action!
Wow, that was the most direct response he’s made so far. I must’ve struck one hell of a nerve. =)
@ Alan
Austen’s work is good and I can understand the recommendation. The explanation of entailed property in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ clearly explained something which until then was very confusing for me.
Oh, Al. No one is buying that. You’re not exactly the sharpest pin in the cushion, are you? You are purposefully skipping over the questions you can’t answer, which is all of them. We all see it. If you are just going to tuck your tail, you may as well run while you’re at it. I know you’re afraid to answer. We all know. All you have to do to change our minds is answer the fucking questions.
Go on. I’ll go make popcorn and come back. But do it quick. I’ve got things to do. I can’t watch you chase your tail all evening.
Is it worth mentioning that the screenplay for “Alien” was deliberately written with gender neutral characters? The idea was that anyone could be cast in any of the roles.
Christ Al, talk about sound and fury signifying nothing. Typical misogynist.
…okay, and? What does it matter to you if there’s a ‘ masculine’ movie that’s gone feminine influences? You can choose to go watch any of the hundrends of testosterone drowned action flicks that are devoid of any women except those put in to be sex objects, instead. And if everyone else shares your clearly correct opinion, then no one will go to see this film, it will be a flop, and the director will learn a valuable lesson that only narrow minded dudebros ever go to see films and never try anything new or representative of any other demographic ever again. That’s the most likely situation, isn’t it? No need to fret, dear!
Lea, as I’ve said before, I am confining myself to the content of my original commentary, nothing more. I’m noting the fact that no person has issued an inquiry related to such. Just sayin’.
Whoever called MRAL, you were totally right, That little rant confirmed it. How you doin’, kiddo? I remember reading your posts and hoping you got more mature as you grew up, but I guess that’s not the case lol. I had such hopes for you!
I give this neg a 1/10. You lost a point because you are continuing to evade my simple, simple question, and not even having enough courage to admit that you don’t have one because you haven’t thought about it enough. However, it still wasn’t a very good neg.
I thought your excuse for why you weren’t answering me was that you were restricting yourself to the content of your original comment. M’s post had nothing to do with that.
So you don’t even have the integrity to stick with your bullshit excuse and see it through to the end? Interesting. I’m learning so much about you today. Too bad none of it is good.