So my post on Aaron Clarey’s Return of Kings call for a boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road went a bit viral last week, garnering thousands of shares and retweets on social media and inspiring dozens of articles on sites ranging from The Mary Sue to the Guardian and even the Daily Mail, all helping to expose the manly men of the manosphere as the entitled manbabies they are, so threatened by women with power that the very thought of Charlize Theron as a badass postapocalyptic road warrior causes them to lose their collective shit.
Their “boycott” is a bit of a failure as well, to say the least. The film — which so far has garnered an impressive 98% of positive reviews according to Rotten Tomatoes — took in close to $17 million at the box office on Friday (in North America), and is expected to earn more than $40 million this weekend alone.
Admittedly, one movie did do better than Fury Road on Friday, but I somehow doubt this will be much of a consolation to Clarey and the rest of the Return of Kings crowd, given that the movie is Pitch Perfect 2, a musical comedy about an all-female a capella group whose breakout star is — to use the parlance of the manosphere — a fat chick. The horror!
Or maybe I’m wrong, and all the Fury Road boycotters went to Pitch Perfect 2 instead.
Anyway, over at Return of Kings, site founder and rape legalization proponent Roosh Valizadeh is proclaiming victory:
Even though we were incorrectly identified as a men’s rights site, the idea that Hollywood is spreading feminist propaganda has for the first time reached the ossified brains of over one million new people this week, perhaps more. Most of these individuals will never allow themselves to accept how unnatural and phony it is to have female heroes who are as strong as men, but a few of them will encounter another movie in the future that portrays women as so comically masculine that they can’t help but remember the site with the word Kings in the title that described that very phenomenon.
Aw, fellas, can’t you see that the joke is on you?
Perhaps this song with help:
I swear, I should probably post this video every other day.
The reviews are off the chart for this movie, it has a 89 metascore on Metacritic. That’s way high for even a critically acclaimed genre blockbuster, for instance Guardians of the Galaxy got a 76, and the only post-1990 blockbusters I see with higher ratings are two from the LOTR trilogy. (The Two Towers is the lowest ranked of the trilogy. Whatever dudes.)
Metacritic is much harsher than Rotten Tomatoes and Mad Max’s 89 puts it in among Metacritic’s 108-132 highest rated films of all time. It’s tied with Goodfellas, to put it in perspective.
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If you think on it, this is good for RoK and bitcoin, particularly bitcoin.
I really hope very soon we will have a woc and a disabled woman lead stars. The douchebros heads will go:
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Well, that doesn’t surprise me that they are claiming victory. How would the know what victory felt like? They would actually have to put effort into something to be victorious. And, that is not going to happen anytime soon.
‘Social Justice Road Warriors.’ Love it.
Spending all night negging a fat chick, only to have her tell them to fuck off. That’s my educated guess.
So… they are well educated in defeat, then?
Ah, MRAs, when even the Fraser Coast Chronicle and its readers are mocking you, maybe it’s time just to give up!
If I was.afraid of butterflies, and demanded the US govt declare war on butterflies, and my claim became a meme on sites where everyone thinks I’m insane, I wouldn’t declare that a victory.
I wish my standards of success were as embarrassingly low as the MRA types.
Bina,
Like that PUA who went to a white supremacist conference, got wasted, hit on fat chicks, got shot down, and got 86ed?
“But the Social Justice Warriors in the U.S. don’t care about them, just about the pretty blonde refugee from that country who entertains them with fantasies about grrl power.”
1. Please learn the difference between “refugee” and “immigrant,” and
2. Also, I have to say, spoken exactly like a man who never dreamed of having a pretty blonde refugee or immigrant entertain him with a fantasy. Right.
In reference to Bina’s statement about possibly badass Persian women, I do recall hearing about female soldiers in the armies of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Entire female regiments apparently, and there were horrified mentions by the Greeks that the Persians actually allowed female officers to command men.
The ghosts of thousands and thousand of women knights, women samurais, women badasses, mothers who stand their grounds against big threat,… are poiting at PUAs and MRAs. And they are laughing.
I’m taking it as a sign of the bankruptcy of the MRA movement that the increased exposure this blog has gotten hasn’t led to a corresponding uptick in good trolls. Just the same sad one-note concern trolls.
I guess pelagic is a new sort of honeypot type troll but damn they’re boring anyway,
Badass Persian woman Somayeh Mirani
You guys you guys you guys!
LOOK WHO REVIEWED FURY ROAD!!!
Muh misandry!
HELP! I’m being repressed and my boner is totally gone! White wimmenz should be weak and submissive so I can get to feel like a man!
@katz
Geesh, you’re quick. My Subs says it was out only 16 minutes ago.
> Professor Skull
“George Miller didn’t grow up with these films the way we did” *choke*
This is such great news, those two movies doing so well. I love that the manly men of the manosphere ( I’m going to use that again in this comment, you watch) ate THIS annoyed about there being two whole movies starring women.
Charlize is aweseome, Rebel is awesome, and the manly men of the manosphere (aka, entitled manbabies) are invited to suck my figurative…
Ergh, ‘ate’ = ‘are’ 🙂
“Even though we were incorrectly identified as a men’s rights site”
Is it just me, or has there been a big increase in the “I’m not a MRA, but” crowd?
@Troy
Seems to be a popular self-defense mechanism with right-wing reactionaries. Remember when the Tea Party came to “Prominence” (as much as being the laughing stock of the whole fucking world can be considered prominence) and suddenly every Republican started claiming “I’m not a Republican, but…”?
And “how dare you use the slur ‘MRA'”
Yeah, they spout off MRA talking points all the time and yet “I’m not an MRA” or they post screeds of vile disrespect for women and yet “I’m not a misogynist how dare you!”
Personally, I think that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…