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.
@Banana Jackie Cake, fruitloopsie
Slight correction. Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern, is gay in the comics. However, Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern played by Reynolds, has always been portrayed in the comics as straight, with a complicated relationship with Carol Ferris/Star Sapphire.
Also, what the hell is wrong with the MRAs? How does a person’s thinking get /that/ wrongly broken?
@WWTH “It’s bad enough they fucked up Jem!”
Awh, the Jem movie isn’t truly truly truly outrageous? That sucks, but after reading about the project a while ago I’m not surprised.
I’ve heard good things about the “Jem and The Holograms” comics though. I remember reading somewhere that they made both Kimber and Stormer lesbians. Which is something I wish they could have done in the cartoon. The episode where they team up was my favorite.
To be fair, the English guy was probably being snarky. We need a punctuation mark for sarcasm.
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TS77RP1 Needs to be found, and reported to appropriate authorities if what’s said is true. This reality needs facing up to and challenging as well as exposure in forums like this website.
@ ghostbird
If you think that’s gross; don’t read up on how the Romans wiped their bottoms!
So if the woman were subtracted from the movie, the movie would be realistic?
All differences in opinions aside, shouldn’t the cyber crime cell be looking up who this guy who’s claiming to perform these extreme degrees of domestic abuse and human rights violations so openly and send child protection services etc to save these ‘female people’? i mean even if he was making some stuff up at least it needs to be looked into and kept an eye on for the future. no one can spew so much vitriol and not practice it in real life, even if they were acclaimed fantasy writers. each word and context originates from the sick mind it, well… originates from.
@Katz
I’ve heard people go both ways on the subject of the nose blowing, though the immersion vs. running water/shower thing was definitely a major factor regardless. Culture shock is a fascinating thing. Which I find doubly amusing as I have both Nordic/Germanic and Middle Eastern genetic ties.
@Alan
Ah the Romans…..and as if the toilet practices weren’t off putting enough, then there’s the use of urine for toothpaste.
A “Men’s Rights” website calling itself “Return of Kings”? If those Kings are Edward II and Richard III, maybe.
So who do I send this to to make sure that this a-holes kids get taken away from him?
@Lady Mondegreen
I hear you. I’ve had similar dreams to you – excitement, adventure, stimulation, that sort of thing – and even though there’s no chance of me becoming an astronaut or spy at this point I have experience in the world of business and that is my chosen path. I like the competitiveness, the drive and ambition, the need to do what it takes to stay on top. I like teaching and leading, am independent minded (although I don’t turn down advice and guidance of course) and I do not take excuses for shitty behaviour. I too resent their idea of reserving these traits as ‘for men only’, and not even for ALL men, but purely those that are like them. All other men are ‘manginas’ remember.
Frankly, I’m a horror story for MRAs and I love it. >:D
I forgot to add in my post above: not only do I have these ‘manly’ traits and want to pursue a career in business, I also don’t plan to have children any time soon (if ever, and certainly not natural kids) and although I do want to marry, I WILL be keeping my job thanks instead of running the house.
BWAHAHAHA!!!
So, there’s your reaction to a click bait article designed to mimic a lot of feminist articles around the web about boycotting something because “stupid reasons”?
I won’t watch it. It has nothing to do with feminism or what so ever (it’s mad max, it’s not about the story anyway) but it won’t be good.
Another rehash and with a poor excuse for a consultant that will result in 5 characters that no one that isn’t narcissistic, megalomaniac and a paranoid with a victim mentality will be able to relate to.
At least 5 out of 6 characters that we can’t relate to.
And those are the main characters.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mad_max_fury_road/
Just want to take this opportunity to say the movie has a 99% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. That’s pretty unheard of.
Ha, that’s what you *want* us to think.
@ ghostbird
They used urine for a lot of things. In all fairness it is pretty sterile. It was so valuable there was a tax on it!
Nope. We pwned your bud then laughed at him. He fled and you are flustered about it. Do try to calm down. It isn’t becoming to be so emotional.
No and we clearly demonstrated that.
Name one example. (You can’t because that is total bullshit. )
OK
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Yes, when men complain about the Bechdel test it is misogyny.
Oh, clueless MRAss, we have. You’re the one awash in double standards and self pity.
How these MRAsholes writhe when presented with facts. It’s like salting a slug, only I feel sorry for the slug.
[Australian] I’d say it’s more like pouring Dettol on a cane toad, because slugs are kinda gross but harmless but cane toads are a swarm of toxic, murderous pests apparently trying to take over the world. [/Australian]
Sunnysombrera,
Please don’t call biological kids “natural”. It is a pet peeve of most adoptive parents. My children are not unnatural, which is what that wording implies. They are just not biologically related to me. I call the child I carried in my womb my biokid.
I really hate this question: “Do you have any real children?” or “Do you have any children of your own?” People will say that stuff in front of my children. It crawls all over me. Last time it was at the optometrist when they asked for family medical history and I explained that we don’t know it. I answer such questions with, “Oh, they’re all real. None of them are imaginary and they are all mine. Who else’s would they be? I’m their mom.” Follow with a smile that looks like Wednesday Addams’s and they back peddle quickly.
It’s small thing, if you are on the outside of our family looking in. It is a big deal to us. When you adopt, you’ll get the same questions and comments. Feel free to borrow my reply. You’ll get plenty of chances to use it.
@Lea
Okie doke. Thanks for the enlightenment.
@ Alan
http://t.qkme.me/3q9qoi.jpg
@ Fromafar
He, I still think “If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball” is one of the best bits of life coaching going.
When you’re so insecure that you have to beat your own daughter, punish her for any signs of ambition, and deny her opportunities for education, while at the same time convincing your sons that woman are not equal to men, you’re basically admitting that deep down, you believe woman are inherently better then men and as such, women need to be held back to prevent them from proving it. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have to work so hard to make sure she is not able to outshine her brothers.
The root cause of this probably has to do with the fact that, evolutionary speaking, women are more valuable than men. To give a quick example as to why this is true (and why it probably also explains the whole “save the women and children first” ideology) imagine two different situations where a natural disaster wipes out most of the general population. In the first scenario, 100 men and 10 women survive. In the second scenario, 10 men and 100 women survive. Now, which society will be more likely to have the ability to repopulate? Which society will tend to be more at peace? Which society will be more likely to be safe for all members?
When the survival of humanity still hung in the balance, a man’s role was to protect and provide/serve women and children. A helpmate/bodyguard, if you will. Aggression and strength evolved in men as a way to compete in a society where the well-being of women was the key to long-term survival. After all, a “good protector/provider” was more likely to pass along his genes. However, as societies began to evolve, the aggressive tendencies that men had developed to protect women became more of a liability to women. This became particularly true with the development of religion (the very first MRAs are responsible for that, I’d guess) that labeled men as the superior sex for no other reason than an invisible god said so. These belief systems, still found in mass in all parts of the undeveloped world, rely on the exact same anti-feminist propaganda that the above-mentioned, daughter-beating cretin subscribes to. They serve only to impede progress and to encourage violence, and aim to teach men that their strength makes them the superior sex, and anyone who says otherwise should be shut down.
Luckily, in today’s society, violence, aggression, and brute strength are no longer acceptable methods for furthering your agenda. In the past, beating your wife and daughters until they accepted your “superiority” could be accomplished without too many repercussions. Which is why this shit persisted long enough to become really ingrained in certain societies for centuries, and is still persisting today in the middle east. However, as more civilized societies progressed towards valuing intelligence over brute strength, those who use violence to attack intelligence are properly labeled as criminals, child abusers, etc.
With this change in values comes a recognition that men do not have the right to kill or beat women who scoff at them, or who outperform them intellectually. Without being able to directly silence their opposition, these stone-age throwbacks resort to the lowest of the low, instilling fear in their own female offspring in an attempt to change the tide and bring back the ignorance of days gone by. As the rest of society, men and women both, evolve towards equality and work together in an attempt to create a society where individual interests and talents can be developed freely and regardless of sex, these guys are lost in a world they can’t understand, one that highly values individuals based on intellectual accomplishments. Unable to compete at that level, MRAs become fixated on dragging us all down to their pre-evolved mindset, longing for a world where brute strength can be used against those who challenge their penis-based superiority. Their shrieks of rage over the portrayal of strong women in a post apocalyptic setting only highlights their fears, insecurities, failure to evolve, and inability to recognize people as individuals with talent and intelligence unrelated to their sex organs.
Individuals, whether male or female, should absolutely be treated equally and fairly, because we are all equally valuable in a society that values ideas, intelligence, and creativity. We have evolved past merely surviving, and are able to concentrate on making the world a better place (although many still refuse to do so) where everyone enjoys equality and opportunity.
The fact that some men still feel the need to exclude, devalue, and insult women only displays their own inherent belief/fear that women are somehow superior to men, and thus need to be held down to avoid exposing this fact. The desperation and fear that characterize MRAs is, ironically enough, the purest form of misandry, since it proves that they believe, given an equal playing field, that men will lose.