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.
“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, this ranting seems to be all about this guy, his dick and what he finds attractive. Can’t women be badass without trying to be attractive? Or is that the only quality this pig sees in the female gender?
Policy of Madness:
I have been reading some other articles about the actual film and not just reactions to it by whiny dudes and the people who write articles about the reactions of whiny dudes. I have a better understanding of it, the theme, the plot and sub-plots. Looking even more forward to seeing it now.
The “what are you trying to say part”. Yes, my on-the-fly grammar can be pretty bad. Even when Highly schooled/ Underexperienced people either give me a hard time or just use it as an excuse to not listen or read because it’s easier than engaging, because they do not realize that in real life the queens’s english really doesn’t mean shit to the rest of us, and we love making fun of them probably a whole hell of a lot more than they do us.
OK..
Men with too much power, who use violence as their political pulpit are diks. In our current world, this is considered to be “powerful and strong”. When a woman does that is she a dik, or is it ok because she is a woman? Or do we give her a pass because it’s easier to blame it on Patriarchy rather than recognizing individual responsibility?
Is that definition of Feminism in play? Or, is it the type of Feminism that is about it reforming the idea of what power and strength -really- is? I embrace and respond very favorably to the latter type of Feminism but not so much to the former. So that is why I am curious.
As I mentioned, upon further reading, I think I am going to like it. I like that Max is narrating (yes?), but not seeming to do much, as in a sense, Furiosa is not only rescuing women, but Max himself, kind of like real life.. and like the better type of Feminism.
I literally can’t tell where Rub’s “Bad feminism” is coming from or what it has to do with this thread. The movie? A fictional woman acts like a stereotypically “Masculine” hardass in a fictional post-apocalyptic world, therefore feminists are meanie-pants?
Well, at least his breathless tone policing spared us his boner’s opinion on Charlize Theron this time.
The comment who admits to beating his daughter should be reported to CPS.
What a straw feminist. I’ve never seen feminists advocate for abusing power and harming others. Not once. Liking action movies with female protagonists doesn’t mean we want violence to be the way problems should be solved.
There wouldn’t necessarily be a problem with that anyway. It’s a valid viewpoint that’s completely gender neutral.
Arguably there are some problems that violence is the best solution to. That could be the use of self defence (on the part of a woman or a man) or military force (for example the Peshmerga women taking on ISIS)
My friend in the video above is a proponent of using violence *when it is appropriate*. She makes her living teaching women how to do that (and she;s really good at it)
@Alan
It’s lovely to see fellow martial artists of different types here. 🙂 I’m a jujitsu practitioner of the Japanese style, which trends towards self defense rather than tying people in elaborate pretzels (that’s Brazilian jujitsu). I also have great respect for Krav, as it, perhaps moreso than my style, is geared to deal with any threat as quickly as possible.
Love old school Ju Jitsu. You familiar with Edith Garrud?
Hang on, I’ll try and dig out something for you about JJ from my youth.
Feminism has it’s version of whiny dudes as well as diks. Totally aware of that going in.
I’m not conflating offense and self-defense. I’m thinking more along the lines of gender neutral character traits and the rising Bank, military, fossil fuel and frankenfood sponsored sociopath political candidates, and such.
“I’ve never seen feminists advocate for abusing power and harming others. Not once.”
Shows you get my point! good reading!
You are lucky. I have seen extremely egregious behavior done in the name of Feminism (I certainly did not buy the excuse). I have also listened to, and read people who have used Feminism in defending egregious things. (Not that I bought it).
That is why I asked.. I was wondering what the undertones are, and whther it’s about real Feminism or fake-ass BS done in the name of Feminism.
Hope this works. Check out the last panel. I suspect this was very influential in my formative years resulting in my love of badass women (or maybe it just appealed to me because I already liked them, not sure how things like that work)
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=262148&GSub=19692
Yes indeed I do! She was a big inspiration for me as I got my derrière kicked up and down the dojo while learning my art. It was always immeasurably worth it, but I always went home (quite happily) sore. I’m from the Jukishin Ryu school, if that rings any bells, and I was the first woman my Sensei promoted to black belt, which I intend not as braggadocio but just as salient to the point of women kicking ass and taking names in everyday reality as well as in fiction.
Love her; glad to see the Ju Jitsu Suffragists getting a lot of press lately. More people should know about them. They’re the original feminists in my eyes (well, maybe after Spartan women, Boudicca etc.)
I think a genuine black belt in a proper style like that entitles you to a bit of a brag. 🙂
Not gonna lie – I literally stopped reading right here. If you can’t be fucked to make an effort to express yourself clearly, I’m not wasting my time on you. It’s not actually my responsibility to tease meaning out of your immense run-on sentences, and you’ve given me no reason to think there is something profound waiting for me behind your wall of words.
Thank you. I generally don’t talk about it (I like having the element of surprise on my side 😉 ) but I’ll take one for the team if it changes the minds of any of these ‘women can’t fight’ types.
That is such an excellent video! And oh, I miss having regular class and the beautiful simplicity of the motions for a lock or a throw.
Okay, maybe I’m reading way too much into this and he’s just a semi-literate moron, but does his insistent spelling of “Dicks” as “Diks” strike anybody else as being a surreptitious way of calling us dykes?
Ah, Sun Tzu “When weak appear strong but when strong appear weak” 😉
I’ve got (well *haven’t* got) the missing teeth to prove “fight like a girl” is a real compliment.
It definitely goes into TMI territory, so I won’t regale you with the time I had to go to the doctor’s after one particular session. Suffice it to say the doctor pointed out that he could almost check my prostate at the same time as my tonsils.
I assumed he was calling us dik diks.
http://pics.blameitonthevoices.com/052010/offended_dik_dik.jpg
@M
I noticed that, and decided it was too much effort to figure out, but you’re probably correct because I had the same initial thought.
It’s an old trick, the appearing weak bit, but I cannot say it’s not useful. Our Sensei impressed it upon us from day one that what we were doing was not learning how to build our egos, but instead how to protect our lives and well being. And it’s always fascinated me that while the female part of the class was always smaller than the male, the women had a much lower turnover rate than the men.
Please note, however, that I’m not suggesting this should be something everyone should do. I have a fiery temper and a combative streak that found a channel and control through the martial arts. My sister, however, found the classes too stressful and upsetting. She’s a brilliant woman and fantastic in her line of study (robotics), and that’s as it should be. 🙂
No Robertun, I don’t get your point at all. It would be helpful if you wrote clearly and actually elaborated on what these egregious things that have been done in the name of feminism are. Because I sure can’t think of any.
I’ve seen that phenomena with Krav too. I have numerous theories on this but I won’t bore you with 1,000s of words on the subject.
It can be very useful *once* combat is inevitable, however there is another side to this.
I’m always saying that 95% of self defence is non-physical. Knowing how to avoid a situation where force is needed is obviously safer than having to use force. One corollary from this is that if you have the choice between *being* a hard target and *looking* like a hard target, you might be better with the second option; especially for women (for whom violence tends to be real rather than ritualistic as with most male violence)
You don’t have to go around looking like you’re itching for a fight of course, but a few of the simple tricks (gait, breaking eye contact sideways etc.) can be enough to put a predator off so force isn’t necessary.
Your sister of course can just build a Terminator, so she doesn’t need the classes 🙂