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.
@Lea: Please do go read some. The game was also super good as well, but you can only get it for console because some jackass at the studio couldn’t keep up the licensing or some shit so now I can’t get it on Steam. *sobs in a corner*
There’s this really awesome bit in the game where Deadpool goes into his “Deadpool-O-Vision” and he’s at a party where he tries to hit on women. They all shoot him down, and he ends up sitting between two women who start talking to each other about what a trope they are and how they’re only “eye-candy” while DP starts spacing out.
You have to listen to the entire conversation between the two of them to get an achievement.
But yeah, here’s hoping the movie doesn’t bork him up like whatever the fuck was in Origins. The Wade Wilson bits were spot-fuckin-on, but the Deadpool bits were just so…wrong.
I don’t know much about Marvel comics but I love deadpool! I really want to play the game.
http://img0.joyreactor.com/pics/post/funny-pictures-Deadpool-auto-501246.jpeg
OH MY GODS FRUITLOOPSIE.
The sad thing is, Deadpool gets mistaken for Spiderman ALL THE TIME.
Oh, and he hits on Spiderman all the time too:
That link I posted just reminds me of Deadpool’s two soft spots: Kids and cancer patients.
The first because kids.
The second because he’s got skin cancer himself (That’s why he went to Weapon X and got his superpowers in the first place).
I credit my red(dish brown) hair to my Viking ancestors, so thank you for that. Yes, they were…and their women were accordingly high-status and badass in every way.
Also, we have kick-ass Freyja and Her cat-drawn chariot! And the cats’ names were Bygul and Trjegul, which translates to “Bee-Gold” and “Tree-Gold”, a.k.a. Honey and Amber. And when She got mad, even Loki wasn’t laughing. My Old Norse prof at uni had a great saying to describe Her, too: “Freyja is very sexy, but She’s also very BIG.”
Oh, and to rub Widdle Alsy-Walsy’s uneducated nose in it further, my Germanic ancestors of various tribes (Saxons, Franks, etc.) all had high-status women, too. And no ancillary “shieldmaidens”, either, but full-fledged swordswomen. Who fought in battles right alongside their husbands and brothers. And kicked ass, and took names, and scared the shit out of the Roman barbarians.
(Gawd, I’m sorry that silly troll flounced before I had a chance to play with him, but I was kicking ass against the weeds in my garden, and planting kale, kohlrabi and herbs. Bet he’s not a real gardener, either, anymore than he’s a real intellectual.)
*any more, not anymore, dammit.
@Lady Mondegreen:
“Still grinning at this.”
(In response to Al’s ‘I don’t see the “women as prizes and men as agents” notion. I see traditional sex roles depicted in art’)
Yes, it is grin-inducing. But that’s how deep thinkers do it, apparently.
And in related news, fish denies the existence of water.
I see people can only mock whilst nervously patting each other on the back here, because the underlying argument of the “trolls” is spot on. Hollywood has been churning out anti-male propaganda for decades. When feminists complain about the bechdel test its activism, when men complain about this its misogyny. Please make up your damn minds.
It’s true, women are just hyperemotional and can’t logic their way out of a paper bag. As we all know, fear is rooted in logic, that’s why he’s afraid of this movie, afraid that people don’t approve of him beating his daughter and, really, afraid of irrational, fragile women. It’s just logical, don’t you get it?
Paradoxical Intention | May 13, 2015 at 9:00 pm
I’m don’t know much about Marvel even I can tell the difference between them. Pfft Fake geek boys, amirite sister?
Sorry about that! He seems to have scurried off, but if Heaven forfend I have to refer to him again, I think MRAl has a nice ring to it. 🙂
Meanwhile, the Arabs were inventing toothpaste and deodorant. I wonder if there are any treatises from European moral guardians about the Arabs stealing all their chicks.
Just watched my future husband rip MRAs a new asshole over this very topic on @midnight!!!
@ktrantigredhead
Oooh, just about to watch that!
Your future husband is Chris Hardwick, right? Because Chris is a ba-ba-ba-BAWS!
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/tsmr.gif
@ktrantingredhead
I hope David get to write an article about that. <3
Wouldn’t surprise me if there were…
Also, they were inventing herbal potions against clinical depression. Abu Sina, a.k.a. Avicenna, noted that lemon balm was a particularly good mood brightener.
The whole problem with so-called traditional roles is that it is in no way sustainable. When shit has to get done, you don’t discriminate about who’s doing it. Which is why historically, women have been lawyers, judges, sherrifs, hunters, farmers, politicians, soldiers, colonizers, every role a society needs. Sure, once everything is in place and you have enough resources to afford it, you can have women stay at home in the kitchen having babies, but that doesn’t create a society and it’s no way to survive. There’s no way we evolved to have those roles biologicaly mandated because there would be no human race if we did. When the men are off hunting or making war, the women better know how to kill the person or animal coming for them. They better be able to maintain law and order and produce food. They better be able to engineer solutions for their problems and build, maintain, and repair their homes and infrastructure.
MRAs can rant all they want about real biological differences between men and women, but when it comes to doing any and all tasks necessary to create, maintain, and defend a sustainable society, none of those differences prevent women from doing whatever needs to be done. We know that because historical records say they did. If that means that those roles are then “feminine” roles, then what use are the manly men?
Arguing that women must have tradtional roles in post-apocalyptic fiction makes no practical sense when you are trying to rebuild society or survive without one. Shit’s gotta get done and no one will survive if they wait around for an “appropriately” manly man to show up and do it. Think it’s realistic for some woman fighting tooth and nail to survive to just adopt a traditional gender role because some alpha male comes along? Hell no! No shoehorning or perverting of women necessary. The women have always been there getting it done. They always will.
I call Poe. This isn’t a genuine hate post.
I’m willing to allow Hollywood to appease the manosphere and stop release of Fury Road if they agree to halt production of the Craft remake.
http://io9.com/oh-good-sonys-remaking-the-craft-1704373103
It’s bad enough they fucked up Jem!
Notably, while I can’t think of any moral texts warning about those darn sexy Arabs, I do know that when the Vikings made it to Constantinople and thence to the Middle East the locals found them to be pretty gross. Case in point; it was apparently a Viking thing to share water for washing one’s hands and face. It was also common for them to blow their nose in the water before passing it on. Naturally, this was pretty appalling to people throughout the Middle East, who had/have a long history of cleanliness and public baths.
Alice,
That’s why the saying is “necessity is the mother of invention!”
@Paradoxical Intention
I think I may be late to the DEADPOOL party but I didn’t know any of that. I don’t even like comics and I want to read his, he sounds like such an amazing guy.
Tell me more. *rests head on hands*
Also, fuck the dude for the child abuse. I was psychologically abused myself, but nowhere near to that degree, and I can’t imagine how being broken like that would affect someone. I have severe anxiety and definitely moments of depression-like fits (where I care about nothing, not even myself), and I had supportive family that pulled me out the moment I got the courage to put my foot down. How… what would even come of suffering that?
I have been reading this thread with AlDudeFromSomePlace and, while it was kinda cute in the beginning, I now find him merely boring.
It is obvious that he is baiting us all, and that he feels, whether he will admit it or not, that women do not belong in action films (or maybe ANY films) as anything other than support for the REAL fictional character…you know…the one with the penis. See, life on papa earth is here to glorify and adore said masculine wonder.
I think I will wander off and do something else. AlWhoShouldGoBackToHisPlanet is making me yawn.
Neat, I didn’t know that! They were totally fantastic doctors, weren’t they?
I heard the nose-blowing bit was probably made up and it was just that they liked to wash with fresh running water so the idea of sharing a basin was gross to them. (But I am not an expert at all.)
An ideal hero is going to have the same basic qualities, regardless of gender. They’re going to be strong (at least emotionally; in action stories they’ll be physically strong as well, and have some sort of fighting skill), empathic (the action hero’s empathy may be hidden under a tough persona, but they must care about protecting those weaker than themselves), intelligent, and courageous.
Those are human qualities, not man-qualities.
When I was very small, eons ago–actually, the early ’60s–I wanted to be an astronaut and explore outer space. Later, as a preteen, for a while my favorite fantasy was being a spy behind German lines in WWII. And I was quite cishet. I never wanted to be a boy. I wanted to be a girl, a woman, doing these things.
I resent the fuck out of MRA attempts to claim adventure fantasy and heroics as essentially male.