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Furious about Furiosa: Misogynists are losing it over Charlize Theron’s starring role in Mad Max: Fury Road

Original poster for the 1979 Mad Max
Original poster for the 1979 Mad Max

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.

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Paradoxical Intention
9 years ago

@redneckcryonicist

Because even if she and her family did (and still does) enjoy white privilege, it doesn’t mean she’s deserving of having shit kicked at her from these assholes. Having white privilege doesn’t automatically mean “bad person we should all hate and leave to the wolves”.

Had she made racist remarks or done racist things, I’d still say the same thing. I obviously wouldn’t condone the hypothetical racist remarks or racist things, but she doesn’t deserve to be dog-piled on by MRAssholes solely because she’s a feeemale existing in what they deemed to be a ‘male space’.

There is no Oppression Olympics. Stop trying to pit women against each other.

kirbywarp
kirbywarp
9 years ago

redneckcryonicist, your comment is especially odd considering that it doesn’t matter that Charlize Theron in particular holds the role. The MRAssholes are complaining about any woman being in an action role, and feminists are against that.

But yeah, seconding the whole “white privilege does not mean bad person,” thing. Privilege just is; what you do with it is what makes you an asshole.

katz
9 years ago

Why would feminists want to defend Charlize Theron, an actress from South Africa whose family enjoyed white privilege under apartheid?

This comment is so doofy I want to frame it. He’s trying so hard to coopt social justice language, but he just. doesn’t. get. it.

Dvärghundspossen
9 years ago

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?

I read the trades with Earth2 (where gay Green Lantern Alan Scott is one of the main characters)… Some people complain that his fiancé Sam was fridged almost immediately, and yeah, I don’t condone fridging. But it was hardly something the writers did to Alan because he’s gay, as I’ve seen some people suggest. Fridging is (unfortunately) a common plot device. And I have to say it’s pretty cool that the most powerful hero in that universe is gay. Normally, even if there are gay characters, the most powerful hero will still be straight. So, some diversity cred to DC for Alan, I guess.

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9 years ago

@Dvärghundspossen

How fast do women in relationships get fridged, though, in comparison? And did he ever express any sort of sexual desire for another man afterwards? You can make a character gay to seem progressive but still fuck it up by not having them express their homosexuality as much as a heterosexual superhero would.

Dvärghundspossen
9 years ago

I’ve only read two trades, but there’s this story (SPOILER) where his enemy makes him believe that his fiancé has come back to life again, so, well, that’s not another man, but it’s his love for a man being part of the story.
It’ll be interesting to see if they get him a new boyfriend eventually, but I’m sort of prepared at this point to give DC some fairly cautious diversity creds, if not huge hoorays.

Flying Mouse
Flying Mouse
9 years ago

From the Fox News article about the female Ranger candidates:

While they did not do well enough to move on to the next phase of training, an Army Ranger statement said the eight women — along with 101 men in the same situation — will be “recycled,” meaning they can re-do the training phase in an upcoming Ranger School session.

…The Rangers also note that 33 percent of the soldiers who graduate Ranger School are typically “recycled,” meaning they have failed the course at least once before.

…According to statistics, only 3 percent of the U.S. Army is Ranger-qualified.

That’s too bad that none of the women were a first-time go at Ranger School. However, a goodly number of men weren’t, either. And those 109 people weren’t dropped from the course; they’re all going to try again. Almost a third of the course graduates were in the same boat at some point. It happens.

I won’t lie, I’ll celebrate if any of the women can finish the course and get their tab. It’s a huge accomplishment of mind and mettle, and it will open up the doors to other women who want a chance to prove themselves (and advance in the ranks – being locked out of all of those high profile combat-related leadership schools has to hurt your promotion prospects sooner or later). But I fail to see how eight people’s performance in a school that historically has a 50% attrition rate and whose graduates make up a tiny percentage of the Army is some verdict on half the population. I don’t see anyone piling invective on men because the majority of them don’t qualify for Ranger School and that half of those who do can’t finish the course.

And what the female Ranger candidates have to do with a SFF movie, a genre that challenges reality and demands you to suspend disbelief at the door, I know not.

But that’s probably my silly ladybrain nattering on. Ah, me.

Alan Robertshaw
Alan Robertshaw
9 years ago

But I fail to see how eight people’s performance in a school that historically has a 50% attrition rate and whose graduates make up a tiny percentage of the Army is some verdict on half the population.

It’s pointless applying stats to just one batch of selection anyway. Famously there once were consecutive BUD/S classes where *everyone* failed in the first one and *everyone* passed in the next one.

If you’d used either of those classes as a sample what conclusions would you have drawn?

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9 years ago

@Dvärghundspossen

Two trades? How many books were in them, because I’m pretty sure every other superhero gets at least 3 love interests and 10 sexual tension moments per arc.

Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
9 years ago

While they did not do well enough to move on to the next phase of training, an Army Ranger statement said the eight women — along with 101 men in the same situation — will be “recycled,” meaning they can re-do the training phase in an upcoming Ranger School session.

101 men fail: “Yeah, so?”

Eight women fail: “LOL WIMMINZ CAN’T ARMY.”

MRA manlogickz in a nutshell.

Flying Mouse
Flying Mouse
9 years ago

@Alan – The all no-go class would prove that being a SEAL is so demanding that if the best men in the country can’t do it, women are too weak and frail to even dip a fair toe in the water. And that makes women inferior.

The all go class would prove that men are obviously so well suited to being a SEAL that women, by nature of being not-men, are destined to fail should they even try. And that makes women inferior.

Well, that’s what an MRA would conclude, anyway. 🙂

Dvärghundspossen
9 years ago

Banana, don’t remember now, but the other main characters Hawkgirl and the Flash had no romances so far (or, wait, the Flash was dumped by his girlfriend in the very beginning of his arch, no romance after that), so they’re not ahead of Alan in that regard.

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9 years ago

@Dvärghundspossen

I probably wouldn’t have been asking so many questions if I had known Earth 2 has only been running for 3 years.

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Lady Mondegreen
Lady Mondegreen
9 years ago

@Earl Tower

This type of rant is why I loath the male rights movement, and I do consider myself an old fashion style man

My father was born in 1933. He didn’t live to see the MRM, but I can’t imagine him having anything but contempt for them.

MRAs fantasize a lot about the Good Ol’ Days when men were men, but what they really want is Automatic Man Prestige (granted by penis) without the responsibilities.

robertrun
9 years ago

From a comment

“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 have not seen the movie yet, but I will because I like movies like this, I’m not obsessed about gender roles and bald women who look like CH are sexy to me, I won’t lie. I have another, less serious comment further up the thread.

Now.. here is my question. Remember, I have not seen the movie, I’m serious and I’d just like to get some opinions from people because the “I’m a dikhed but it’s ok because I’m a woman, so shut up” movement within Feminism, I think, might not really be Feminism and might just be the female version of arrested development that society has been suffering under with men for way too long.

How much of the MM movie version of Feminism is about women getting the death-march-war-machine macho-bully list, and how much of it is about improving society and changing our perception about what honest strength and power is, as in not more of “I’m a bigger dik than you so too bad if you don’t like it”?

Thoughts? (Drama addicts you can ignore this)

Bina
9 years ago

Why would feminists want to defend Charlize Theron, an actress from South Africa whose family enjoyed white privilege under apartheid?

A self-styling “redneck” said THIS? Dude, you owe me a new irony meter.

And, FYI, feminists like Charlize because she’s played a shit-ton of brave and badass female characters, ones who didn’t just roll over and get raped and let that cow her into permanent submission. Maybe that’s because she is, herself, a badass and a rape survivor who isn’t afraid to speak out about it.

There you go. Your inane question has been answered. You may now go fuck yourself.

Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
9 years ago

… then I’m fine with anything Charlize Theron is in, especially in tough-guy outfits.. i love it. She’s smoking hot, IMO.

… and bald women who look like CH are sexy to me, I won’t lie.

First two posts, first two boner updates. Smells like boner troll in here (seriously dude, try washing it one day).

weirwoodtreehugger
9 years ago

His posts make zero sense to me. So I don’t even know.

Policy of Madness
Policy of Madness
9 years ago

Now.. here is my question. Remember, I have not seen the movie, I’m serious and I’d just like to get some opinions from people because the “I’m a dikhed but it’s ok because I’m a woman, so shut up” movement within Feminism, I think, might not really be Feminism and might just be the female version of arrested development that society has been suffering under with men for way too long.

How much of the MM movie version of Feminism is about women getting the death-march-war-machine macho-bully list, and how much of it is about improving society and changing our perception about what honest strength and power is, as in not more of “I’m a bigger dik than you so too bad if you don’t like it”?

Thoughts? (Drama addicts you can ignore this)

I have absolutely no idea what you’re trying to say. Maybe rephrase with fewer clauses per sentence?

Alan Robertshaw
Alan Robertshaw
9 years ago

For a real life warrior woman, this is Avital, one of our Krav colleagues. Ignore the flashy stuff at the beginning; that’s not actually Krav, but check out the stuff in the park.

And for people who may suggest this is all choreographed I can attest she can really do this. She knocked seven bells out of a mate on a recent training course 🙂

brooked
9 years ago

@redneckcryonicist

Why would feminists want to defend Charlize Theron, an actress from South Africa whose family enjoyed white privilege under apartheid?

That’s a sad ass attempt at a derail, particularly since we’re discussing a movie that was shaped by the vision of director George Miller, who is also the co-writer, producer and creator of the Mad Max franchise. Can you pick out one example where Theron was defended or even required defending? I can’t.

You do know that South Africa wasn’t the only country that had a system of racial segregation that was upheld by government force, racist laws, economic inequality and terrorist violence? If you had white ancestors living the USA then your family enjoyed white privilege under American apartheid, which was dismantled less then 30 years before Mandela’s election in 1994.

Both countries are still dealing the legacy and aftereffects of their recently dismantled racist segregationist policies. White privilege is still thriving in both countries.

What was you’re point exactly? You need to a little effort into your “gotachas” is you don’t want to be immediately written off.

Oliver_C
Oliver_C
9 years ago

In George Miller’s previous movie ‘Happy Feet’, it’s explicitly stated that 1) Dancing is fun and cool and who cares if the old geezers don’t approve, and 2) Religious fundamentalism and knee-jerk traditionalism are ruinously stupid.

Why then would the MRAs assume, even for an instant, that Miller was going to be on their side?

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9 years ago

@Alan

Why doesn’t she have her own comic book and movie series?!

Alan Robertshaw
Alan Robertshaw
9 years ago

Don’t give her ideas!!!

[Actually, she’s very non egotistical; that vid was mainly Nir’s idea]

Alan Robertshaw
Alan Robertshaw
9 years ago

Nir is the guy in the park playing the attacker. He’s another Krav bud.

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