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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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Lea
Lea
9 years ago

I like pumpkin spice season. It isn’t as good as hickory smoked meat, fresh tomato, iced tea, green onion, live music and catfish season. I’m enjoying that so much right now. Everything smells like honeysuckle and I can sleep with the windows open and let the birds wake me up in the morning. I hate the politics here but the area itself is magnificent in the spring. Well, if you don’t mind tornadoes it is magnificent.

In other persnal news, I’m feeling more like myself than I have in over a year. I got myself a new doc. Turns out I have a severe vitamin deficiency and was being overly dosed on meds that were making me sicker rather than better. The pain I was feeling in my muscles is all but gone. I’m getting sorted out. I forgot how good normal feels. It doesn’t feel like I’m walking through mud anymore. I’ve started taking long walks again, which I love. The kids have been coming with me and we’re all having a blast. Bring on the heat and humidity! I am so ready for summer.

I hope you all are having happy times too. You rock.

Lea
Lea
9 years ago

Make that tornadoes, mosquitoes, ticks, chiggers, horseflies, floods, water moccasins, poison ivy everywhere, Parvo and fleas.
Other than that, it’s paradise in the spring and summer.

Film Runner
Film Runner
9 years ago

I just got back from the theatre after seeing Fury Road. It is genuinely the best film of this year so far, and one of the most exciting experiences I’ve ever had in a cinema (and Charlize Theron is fucking awesome). Go see it immediately.

Robert
Robert
9 years ago

Lea, good news on the discovery of the vitamin deficiency! Normal is underrated.

Of course, that could be just my opinion template talking.

Lea
Lea
9 years ago

Of course, that could be just my opinion template talking.

I see what you did there.
http://i.imgur.com/5ftwrKv.gif

alaisvex
alaisvex
9 years ago

@Lea,

I’m happy that your new doctor worked all of that out. Also, I too love pumpkin spice season, no matter how little pumpkin is actually involved.

Jason Rosenbaum
9 years ago

What’s ironic is that, despite being strapped onto the front of a car for the first 30 minutes of the film, and being overshadowed for the rest of the movie by the strongest female lead in an action flick since Ripley in Aliens, Tom Hardy’s Max still manages to be a manlier protagonist than every male lead in Furious 7.

Ellesar
Ellesar
9 years ago

I first read ‘opinion template’ as ‘onion template’. Just so many opinions to be peeled back!

I am another who has decided to see this film based on the Manureosphere whining about it. Anything they hate must be worth a try.

Lady Mondegreen
Lady Mondegreen
9 years ago

FE_Power,

No, no, no. What did I tell you about knowing your audience?

Maybe on the forums you come from, trolls can switch horses in midstream and nobody notices. But that just doesn’t work here.

Your original comment is still there. We can all see it. We’ve all read it. Nobody’s gon buy this ” You’re just mad cuz I disagree with you!” schtick.

And–you’re just a “purist”? Dude, COME ON. Contemporary comic and movie action storylines get mixed up and rebooted and given alternet arcs constantly. Did I say “contemporary”? Hell, it’s been going on for decades now. Mixing up the traditional is a tradition now.

No, sweetie. You came here to troll, you failed. Stop trying to create an alternative universe FE who is all about a sincere discussion of how important it is to adhere to the established story arcs in genre fiction who got attacked by teh mean feminists with their opinion templates. It just looks silly.

Asha L'il
Asha L'il
9 years ago

Okay, so I am man and I just came back from watching Mad Max Fury Road and I really don’t get the complaint that MRA’s have with this film.

Yes, Charlize Theron’s character, Imperator Furiosa, get more lines and at least equal screen time that our gentleman Max, but we are either (A) not going to see her again or (B) she will pop up in the third movie (I will come back to this).
Yes, there was an awesome old lady desert biker gang that are totally bad ass and awesome. (did I mention that they are pretty tough and badass? Seriously, I could see my grandmother being one of them because she was a nice old church going lady, but she didn’t take crap from people and, if society collapsed, she’d sure as hell leather up and survive)
yes, virtually all the villains are men.

I’ve gone and read some of the MRA’s complaints which seem to be summed up by this quote from http://www.returnoftheking.com “it will be men like Mad Max who will be in charge.” to which I say . . . did you see the original films?
Madmax spends the original movies as a human punching bag and a puppet in other people’s wars and petty squabbles. I could probably write an entire article describing all the times that Madmax gets his ass handed to him, someone completely screws him over, or he helps someone and then walks away. The original films were more about the destroyed world that Max was traveling through than Max himself.
Yes, it is Furiosa’s plan, but it was the Refinery Defender’s plan in Madmax 2 and it was Aunty Entity’s (uh oh!! a woman!!) plan to double cross Master in Beyond Thunderdome.

The things is, and I think it seemed really clear, this is the first in a series of films and they didn’t want to ‘blow their load’ (to coin a phrase) in the first time round. If this movie is successful, the reviews and ratings seem to speak to that, we are going to have more Madmax movies where our Gentleman Max is going to get to have more screen time and say more words. I’m certain we’ll find out more about the monkey on Max’s back and more.

What I really don’t get is that, of the MRA articles I have bothered to read (before I got bored of their ‘women as equals is bullshit’ rhetoric), none of them gave me any indication that THEY HAD SEEN THE MOVIE! I saw it, it was awesome. The epic landscapes, massive complicated battle scenes with fantastic stunt work, and they jumped that crazy ass vehicle with those huge tires all kept me on the edge of my seat. They also throw in a bunch of little things from the original movies which, as a fan of the original trilogy, I caught.

The reality is that Mad Max Fury Road is a good film and I think that people who like good action films should go see it. By supporting it, you ensure that they will make more of this series and more films like this film.
The MRAs will say that they are going to boycott this movie, but I bet you that the vast majority of them will be sneaking off to see it soon enough and will just say they saw Age of Ultron or Paul Blart 2 again. They will like it and they too will see the sequels.

FE_Power
FE_Power
9 years ago

WeirdWood, I should probably explain how I found out about Mammoths, and hopefully you’ll find the irony at least as entertaining as I did. This site got mentioned by several of the big blogs (two in the top twenty political category I believe) for the sole purpose of Mammoths being mocked by them regarding the topics being posted and opinions given on those topics. A blog that specializes in mocking extremist views and counters with its own extremist views being mocked by pretty much everyone across the political spectrum. The circle of life internet style, and a trainwreck worthy of Gomez Addams. Also to be fair, when your entire premise is to mock stories online, that should be carte blanche acceptance of being mocked by others unless you hold yourself to a higher double standard. I will say that some of the comments in other places regarding the dialog at Mammoths have been less than kind. One compared this site to mentally incapacitated individuals trying to have a slapfight.

ScentedChairs, the term opinion template goes all the way back to usenet times, became common at DU, and then kinda faded away until it came back in to style (like bellbottoms) for s short time during the whole Ezra Klein JournoList kerfluffle.

SevenofNine, Nope, wouldn’t bother me in the least. When I saw Idris Elba playing Heimdall in the Thor movies, I thought it was a pretty good fit for the role. By the way, trying to use a phrase like faux neutral bigot is a bit pretentious, and honestly quite telling in your inherent prejudices.

Brooked, You just made me realize that other than the name “Suicide Squad”, the script is probably going to have nothing to do with the original story with the exception of the premise, government pardon for villains if they survive the mission. Barbara Gordon / Batgirl / Oracle in the modern storyline refused to have anything to do with the Joker since he was the one that crippled her for life.

Isidore13, Of course people can have independent thought, it’s just a rare occurrence.

Lady Mondegreen, Refer back to the first paragraph in my response to WeirdWood. I stand by my original statement and own it completely. A jackwagon scouring the internet looking for asshattery by people with diametrically opposed beliefs to their own and crowing about how wrong they are, now that’s entertainment for the 98% in the middle.

In the red corner we have hobo hunter harry, local president of the he man women haters club and has never met a toothbrush he trusted! In the blue corner his opponent is arm curtain annie, a 43rd year gender studies undergraduate and renowned sculptor of the world’s largest cheez-whiz areola! Are you ready to Rumble!

brooked
brooked
9 years ago

several of the big blogs (two in the top twenty political category I believe)

Oh, how fancy! Is this a guessing game? Breitbart? Townhall? Twitchy? Drudge Report? Free Republic? I kid, no one cares.

Also to be fair, when your entire premise is to mock stories online, that should be carte blanche acceptance of being mocked by others unless you hold yourself to a higher double standard. I will say that some of the comments in other places regarding the dialog at Mammoths have been less than kind. One compared this site to mentally incapacitated individuals trying to have a slapfight.

If you have examples where these posters wrote something remotely clever or genuinely funny, then please share it with the class. If these posters are like you, then I’m assuming it’s just a bunch of not very bright anti-feminists hurling poorly constructed insults at an imaginary villainous crew of straw feminazis, SJWs and libatards.

Here’s a quick test. Do you consider Rush Limbaugh an entertainer? If the answer is yes, you aren’t funny and are most likely incapable of recognizing what constitutes actual humor.

I do enjoy a good Addams Family reference however, so thanks for that.

brooked
brooked
9 years ago

@FE_Power

Also, it’s not exactly a secret that people make fun other people on the internet, so I don’t think you needed that long, wordy response to WWTH.

katz
9 years ago

So I have no interest in reading that tl;dr, but as far as I can tell FE is one of those above-it-all “both sides are equally extreme” types who totally is not at all invested in this conversation, which is why he just spent 500 words explaining exactly what he things.

sevenofmine
9 years ago

By the way, trying to use a phrase like faux neutral bigot is a bit pretentious, and honestly quite telling in your inherent prejudices.

Um lol? How the fuck is it pretentious to describe exactly what you’re doing here which is trying to disguise your bigotry as being a “purist”? Or does “pretentious” in your vocabulary mean something along the lines of “used a word I had to Google”?

And yeah. I have an inherent bias against douchebros who show up in comment sections and embark upon the same “I have no problem with XYZ marginalized group but…” schtick as the 309543857340 douchebros before them and expect the regulars to engage with them as if they’ve said something cogent. I’ll cop to that one quite happily.

Lady Mondegreen
Lady Mondegreen
9 years ago

Lady Mondegreen, Refer back to the first paragraph in my response to WeirdWood. I stand by my original statement and own it completely.

Oh bless your heart. I gave you credit for some self-awareness.

My bad.

Shoo.

tcstunner
9 years ago

There’s no doubt that the guys from that site are 35 year olds, still living in their parents basement. No way any of those d bags got an actual human woman to marry them.

ladymismagius
9 years ago

Reblogged this on Il Ragno and commented:
Io andrò a vedere questo film solo perché fa arrabbiare gli MRA.

hero4rent
9 years ago

Reblogged this on hero4rent.

alaisvex
alaisvex
9 years ago

A blog that specializes in mocking extremist views and counters with its own extremist views being mocked by pretty much everyone across the political spectrum.

Misogyny is bad is an extremist opinion now. Lol.

Also to be fair, when your entire premise is to mock stories online, that should be carte blanche acceptance of being mocked by others unless you hold yourself to a higher double standard.

That’s a fair in and of itself, but you can’t really be surprised if people see you as a troll when your first comment begins by calling the post’s author a douchebag because you disagree with him. If you want your post to be seen as polite disagreement, then don’t start with insults.

Misha
Misha
9 years ago

By the way, trying to use a phrase like faux neutral bigot is a bit pretentious

This, coming from the same person who posted multi-paragraph screeds splaining to the entire comment section about how they were operating within a group-think thought template. Then posted another multi-paragraph screed splaining to people who mock on the internet that … people mock on the internet. Then declared that independent thought is a rare occurrence.

The irony is so thick I could blend it into smoothies and market it to AVfM.

alaisvex
alaisvex
9 years ago

Don’t forget that he tried to tell us that certain websites make fun of WHTM, as if everyone hadn’t noticed the drive-by commenters who came around to call David a fat, white-knight, mangina or all the commenters spinsters. People who want to mock WHTM often come to WHTM to mock everyone. It’s not news to anyone here.

weirwoodtreehugger
9 years ago

Why do trolls always call me weird wood? It doesn’t even ever seem to be done in a mocking way, they just can’t read or something.

Aunt Edna
Aunt Edna
9 years ago

FE_Power sez:

“This site got mentioned by several of the big blogs (two in the top twenty political category I believe) for the sole purpose of Mammoths being mocked by them regarding the topics being posted and opinions given on those topics.”

Which esteemed blogs would that be, pray tell? RoK? The (ir)Rational Male? Some other echo crap chamber of the manuresphere?

Newsflash: manuresphere blogs are “big” only in the deluded minds of their regulars. The rest of the world laughs at them (when not cringing in revulsion).

brooked
brooked
9 years ago

The ROK author, the dipshit also known as “Captain Capitalism”, made this complaint in the original article.

Charlize Theron kept showing up a lot in the trailers, while Tom Hardy (Mad Max) seemed to have cameo appearances. Charlize Theron sure talked a lot during the trailers, while I don’t think I’ve heard one line from Tom Hardy. And finally, Charlize Theron’s character barked orders to Mad Max.

Nobody barks orders to Mad Max.

The free thinking FE_Power, smasher of tyrannical opinion templates, made this complaint in his first post.

Here’s the problem, Furiosia is ordering Max around. Max doesn’t take orders from anyone… man, woman, magical indigo child, no one. Max tolerates suggestions from other lesser beings (everyone else on the planet), but no one orders him to do anything.

Hmm… these seem similar, which is odd because we know FE_Power’s heroic individualism puts him at odds with insidious echo chambers found at Starbucks and elsewhere.

Anyhoo, the AV Club article and many posters here pointed out how this complaint made by the Captain and seconded by FE_Power shows a remarkable lack of familiarity with the Mad Max trilogy they claim to love and yearn to protect.

“Charlize Theron sure talked a lot during the trailers,” Clarey laments, but even more egregiously, “Charlize Theron’s character barked orders to Mad Max. Nobody barks orders to Mad Max.”

Indeed, other than his commanding officer in Mad Max, his captors in The Road Warrior, and Tina Turner in Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max is simply always in charge of his own destiny as a pawn who’s manipulated by circumstance into various power struggles he wants no part of, and is almost never being told what to do more than once or twice per movie. And certainly never by a woman, except when they are women.

http://www.avclub.com/article/mad-men-mad-mad-max-having-mad-women-219391