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.
Well I wasn’t planning to go see Mad Max but I think I just might do that now, just because the thought of these whiny douches crying over the injustice done to them will give me the warm and fuzzies. In their defense, I do fully have a mission to eliminate their ilk from the gene pool by convincing every woman to never even consider setting foot within 100 yards of them. I’m already all giddy just over the prospect of pissing these pis poor excuses for human beings off.
“Hollywood has been churning out anti-male propaganda for decades”
Why is propaganda always “churned out”, as if it’s butter?
Well, I’m sad to have missed Al’s super intellectual argument in favor of rigidly separate narrative art forms. Everyone knows people can only relate to a story if the main characters look like them and share their exact same concerns. Otherwise it’s just too foreign and alien and full of unwanted SJW messages about how people other than cishet white men can have hero arcs and meaningful inner lives. I mean, how else do intellectuals become intellectual? By exposing themselves to a broad cross-section of human experience? Pfftt. As if.
It made for very entertaining reading, though. PoM, I’m amazed that your fancy political science sheepskin didn’t wither up and blow away in the face of Al’s eight years of landscaper experience.
I’m quoting that so anyone just giving the thread a cursory glance will think it’s me and that I said something clever.
“Why is propaganda always “churned out”, as if it’s butter?”
Well, in this case it’s so my feminist friend Katie can spread the butter of social justice on the toast of toxic masculinity, obviously.
@Lea.
Thanks for the responses. I’m in the process of adopting and I’ll keep them in mind for when I need them (Odds are good that my kid’s’ going to be of another race than me and I’m pretty sure people will notice) 😉
I think I can’t wait to eat sushi while watching this film. Anyone get the reference? Hey as long as they are not toting the idea that acting like an entitled fratboy, just with different junk makes you a “strong woman” and not a dik because you’re a woman.. then I’m fine with anything Charlize Theron is in, especially in tough-guy outfits.. i love it. She’s smoking hot, IMO.
I like movies so much more than politics. I even watch the movies that are still constantly showing men in traditional roles and as the strong providers, as long as it is a well-done movie with pretty people and good plot lines, so whatever. Have a nice day you weirdos and don’t yank yer diks off.
But yeah, I have to go have a moray on my breakfast.
This “warrior woman” nonsense in movies has to stop. Just look at how women in the real world can’t pass U.S. Army Ranger training:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/08/no-women-were-able-to-finish-first-try-at-ranger-school/
I can’t tell if cryonocist (sp) is being serious, trolling, or if I’m missing a joke. But if it’s the first two, I’d love to go a few rounds and flex my hand to hand combat skills.
says a non-sexist, reasonable dude: https://moviementalism.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/mad-max-feminist-road/
No idea, but it’s a great excuse to post this. (80% of candidates fail.)
Wonder what they’re gonna say about the Supergirl TV series when it airs this fall. I’ve read stuff about how it has such a huge budget for a TV show – that really must show that the feminazis are taking over TV.
“I’m … Just a regular dude … a neutral observer of the gender wars.”
You liar. Men benefit enormously from traditional gender standards; there is no neutral. You let other, louder, more influential men do the dirty work while you sit back and passively reap. You let other men actively push women out of socie- oh, sorry, film. The fact that you are silent means that you do, in fact, see the benefits to locking other categories of human out of soci- film! sorry, and that you want the situation to continue indefinitely.
And then you only exist, only become visible and active, when you want to belittle “feminist propaganda” (normal people call this “not shutting women out”). What a dude you are, how neutral.
Damn, Pho laid the smack DOWN.
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I see that the trolls who are sad about being oppressed by Charlize Theron’s shaved head have decided to all gather here.
Okay guys, if Hollywood is so misandrous, how come women only made up 12% of protagonists and 30% of speaking roles last year? http://variety.com/2015/film/news/women-lead-roles-in-movies-study-hunger-games-gone-girl-1201429016/
Why is that every successful movie about a woman or girl is regarded as a fluke while every failed movie with a female lead is regarded as proof that people don’t like female led movies (see the Sony leaks). Yet when a male led movie like John Carter is a flop it’s not proof that people don’t want to watch men?
But sure, cry and soil your undies because women are in Mad Max or Ghostbusters. Completely logical.
Oh, and maybe I missed it but I think we forgot to mention Merida from Brave in our earlier lists?
Okay, so, in honor of this discussion I rented and watched Beyond Thunderdome last night. I used to be able to recite it word for word, but that’s been about 25 years ago. Here’s what I have to say after a rewatching of a favorite of mine: It would sure be nice if the “One man who sees what’s wrong with the world” narrative were what was on screen, but that is pointedly *NOT* who Max is. He’s a renegade who looks out only for himself. He’s at best a reluctant hero, if not a full-on antihero. I’m going to need to watch the other two again, but in Thunderdome, he only helps the children when he can see that not doing so will mean the death of a large group of them. He doesn’t do it out of some altruistic streak. He does, in the end, lay down his life for them, but it’s not like he’s out there looking for people to save. And he might be brave, but he’s not noble, nor is he unimpeachable. Aunty yells at him plenty and though he’s looking for ways to subvert her, he’s not any more dominant of her than he is of anyone else in the film. He recognizes her authority and tries to use it to his own ends. When that doesn’t work, he tries to get away from her and save his own butt. Feel like anyone who calls him a paragon of masculine dominance hasn’t paid much attention.
If we’re dropping links as well as troll beatdowns, here’s one from ’13 about how women in speaking roles are getting rarer. Despite the “Feminazi SJW PC lib’rul conspiracy.”
@Pho with Beef and Basil:
“You liar.”
His “benevolent” rant against feminism that followed showed as much.
“Hollywood has been churning out anti-male propaganda for decades”
Re-draft that sentence, and you might be able to work in a mention of the Jews. Maybe even Saul Alinsky and fluoridation.
I saw a pre-screening of Mad Max: Fury Road this past Tuesday and as a woman who has seen her fair share of action movies, I tend to assume they are going to largely male driven. However, I was pleasantly surprised to see that atop all its blood, dirt and grime, feminism played a huge role in this film, with Furiosa at its head driving a war machine. It was unexpected and entirely refreshing.
I saw your article the next morning and immediately shared it with as many people as I could, including on my own blog where I planned on writing my own review of the movie, but felt that your post was far more important and deserved the attention.
I’m so grateful to have discovered your blog. Thank you for being a believer in equality, feminism and for being an ally. As long as there are people who stand up to injustice and combat ignorance, we might not, as a whole, “kill the world”.
Also the movie is Certified Fresh at a ripe 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. So that’s something.
I am going to go see the film just because rants like this idiot’s. I have little tolerance for misandry or misogyny. In most case, idiotic rants about gender ‘rights’ tends to fall into one of those categories. Women asking for equality in decision making and recognition of their civil rights is not some radical plot to geld all males. If either of my sons ever becomes involved with the daughter of a man like the idiot quoted above, I’m going to make sure to tell my sons to get the woman to counseling and keep her away from her father.
This type of rant is why I loath the male rights movement, and I do consider myself an old fashion style man. Really guys, if you consider yourself real men in the traditional definition, you don’t need society to ’empower’ you, nor would you worry about what society thinks. Alpha males my butt, more like mewing omegas and no courage to admit you can’t walk a path in life without some one building up your low self esteem..pathetic.
@domination
You see, I got confused because the Green Lantern I grew up with was John Stewart and I knew a white Green Lantern was gay, I didn’t know it wasn’t Hal Jordan, though. And I kinda blanked the Ryan Reynolds movie from my memory, just like I did with Ghost Rider and Cat Woman, and you can’t blame me can you?
Look out folks, we got a both sides do it, ever so rational, totally neutral manlogicker on board!
Why would feminists want to defend Charlize Theron, an actress from South Africa whose family enjoyed white privilege under apartheid?
Much rational. Such neutral. Wow.
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