If you’re wondering what the racist cowboy cosplayer who’s also possibly the world’s worst filmmaker thinks of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, wait no longer!
Davis Aurini has given the film two burning crosses down — way down!
Aurini, the fake-skull-loving former Anton LaVey impersonator who now favors a sort of effete cowboy look, argues in an interminable “review” that J.J. Abrams’ contribution to the Star Wars franchise is essentially a hate letter to white men.
“Listen up, White Man,” Aurini proclaims.
J.J. Abrams hates you. He relishes the thought of your extinction as he looks forward to a multi-culti matriarchy where instead of studying math and sciences, everyone sits around discussing their feelings.
Aurini, a self-declared “huge white nationalist on paper,” also claims that the film is an insult to black men as well.
As for you, Black Man, he doesn’t want your extinction – you get to prance about doing monkey shine, so long as you obey your white, feminist overlords.
For anyone sporting testicles, Aurini suggests. “[p]aying money to see [Abrams’] film is the equivalent of auto-castration.”
Aurini makes a brief attempt at an actual movie review, declaring the film “derivative and copacetic.” (Apparently he’s unaware that “copacetic” means “excellent.”) But he quickly returns to his main theme:
The underlying message of the movie is that men – and White men in particular – are useless, destructive, failures, who need to get out of the way so that society can finally progress.
Aurini is angry that Daisy Ridley’s Rey — whom he refers to dismissively as “Feminist Skywalker” — has the talents and skills one might expect from a main character in an action flick, even though she’s “an orphan with no finances or support structure.”
Making things worse, Aurini argues, the white guys left over from the first Star Wars trilogy have become a couple of creepy degenerates. Former interstellar wunderkind Luke Skywalker has become a “fat, burn-out, pervert,” while Han Solo is “a burned-up divorcee” who “dresses like a teenager” and probably has a thing for high school girls.
Perhaps confusing Solo with the skeezy ephebophile pickup artists who surround him in the manosphere today, Aurini perplexingly declares that
you can easily imagine him and Chewie making sexually-suggestive remarks to the sixteen year old girl working at the McDonalds drive through
Apparently there are McDonalds franchises in galaxys long-ago and far, far away.
But the true source of Aurini’s ire is, you guessed it, John Boyega’s Finn.
Indeed, Aurini is evidently so worked up at the very thought of a black male lead in a Star Wars film that he is unable to even say Finn’s name, referring to him instead as “Mace Dindu,” the racist nickname he’s been given by the white supremacists of the internet. (Mace Windu, you may recall, was the name of Samuel L. Jackson’s character in the Star Wars prequels. “Dindu” is a recently invented racial slur.)
Aurini not only doesn’t use Finn’s name; he claims, bizarrely, that he doesn’t even know what it is.
I tried to google the character name, but even the websites decrying all of the rassism still referred to him as the “Black Stormtrooper.”
Either this is a weird, failed joke on Aurini’s part, or he genuinely can’t figure out how to look up character names on IMDb.
Aurini, like so many of his white supremacist pals, is convinced that The Force Awakens is really all about — you guessed it — the symbolic cuckolding of white men. The “Black Stormtrooper” is, as Aurini sees it, also a “Black Bull” playing out his role in a racist, sexual psychodrama engineered by “Feminist Skywalker.”
In Aurini’s eyes, Finn is a “coward” who only
nuts up and fights Not Darth Vader is because he got the scent [of] Feminist Skywalker’s White Pussy into his nose-
-and the first rule for being a Black Bull is that she makes the rules. Grunt for her, monkey boy: the Cuck’s all Ego, and you’re nothing but Id. The female Superego is your true master.
Yeah, it’s pretty ugly inside Aurini’s brain.
Aurini ends his review with a long, muddled, and more or less completely gratuitous attack on feminism and affirmative action and what he sees as “the sickness infesting our civilization.”
After declaring The Force Awakens to be “metaphorical for affirmative action, both the direct and indirect forms,” Aurini manages to accidentally reveal that it’s he, not Han Solo, who’s still got a bit of a thing for 16-year-old McDonald’s cashiers. Like countless “nice guy” Redditors before him, Aurini wants to let every mean girl who’s ever rejected him that she’s not all that anyway so there.
Women in today’s society graduate High School endowed with physical beauty, they enter a work environment with pro-female hiring quotas, they enjoy financial subsidies for schooling, are less likely to be harassed by the legal system, and the culture at large believes them to be naturally virtuous, hard working, and intelligent … .
But, really, it’s men who deserve all the credit for hunting the mammoth, literally and figuratively.
The reality is that civilization is a result of men’s labour – technological progress has come from men’s inventions – even social advancement has come from men of great wisdom. The occasional female inventor or philosopher is thrown up to deny the truth of this, but even then you find that they are always – without exception – submissive towards masculinity. …
Feminists have never – and will never – accomplish anything of worth, because they reject the masculine principle; the women of the greatest accomplishments are those who’ve submitted to it.
All this from a cowboy-hat-wearing pretend alpha male who’s apparently so inept at life that he can’t figure out the name of one of the main characters in the movie he’s ostensibly reviewing.
Growing more pretentious by the sentence, Aurini declares that
J.J. Abrams preternatural fantasies about female superiors are nothing more than the symptoms of a boy whose development was arrested at an early stage. He longs for the safety of mommy’s apron strings, the pre-sexual intimacy of suckling at a milky teat …
His world of gender-fluidity sells itself as freedom, but it is anything but; what he sells you is slavery, to your lusts, to your hungers, to your weaknesses, to the governments and to the corporations. …
It’s time for all of us to find something worth living for, and to cast down the broken people who are held forth as idols.
So I guess there won’t be any Force Awakens figurines nestling on Aurini’s bookshelves alongside his toy skull McCarther.
Yes! I was praying you’d do a post on Aurini’s waffle the second I read it! Did you become aware of this because I mentioned it in the comments of your post about that cuckolding graphic, David?
I have no clue what Aurini’s argument here is, by the way. He says that women achieve greatness by submitting to the masculine ideal. But he also whines about Rey being all tough and independent, etc. I don’t get it; by being all tough and independent, etc., isn’t Rey, you know, submitting to the masculine ideal? Oh, fuck, I don’t care what he thinks.
So; first it was Annie, then it was Mad Max: Fury Road, then it was Bella and the Bulldogs, now it’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Whadaya suppose will be the next movie or television show that the Julius Evola crowd throws a collective shitfit about?
So after reading through Arooni’s “writing”, I had two reactions.
1. He’s as terrible at reviewing films as he is at making them.
2. I would love it if someone aent him fanart of Rey/Finn/Poe (Jedi StormPilot!) fanart from tumblr just to mess with him and screw with his hate-driven worldview even more.
I know what SHOULD bother me about this is the reprehensible content and Davis Aurini’s all-around horribleness, but I can’t get past the fact that it seems like he didn’t even watch the movie. He doesn’t know Finn’s name, his impressions of Han and especially Luke are totally wrong, and he says the film wants to erase all remnants of the old world when the only carry-overs from the old films were on the good guys’ side. Also, “world of gender-fluidity?” What?
On a more serious note, why are studying math and sciences and (to put it extremely reductively), “talking about feelings” mutually exclusive? And Aurini talks about his feelings all the time – ugly, racist, sexist feelings, but feelings nonetheless. He goes on about these hypothetical men who’re responsible for everything good in society, but he hardly tries to imitate them.
“Derivative and copacetic” is actually an accurate review of the film IMO, if an accidental one. It was thoroughly enjoyable, well-made, and a complete rehash of New Hope. (I still loved it.)
Also someone should tell Aurini that “preternatural” means “uncanny”, not…whatever it was he thought it meant.
@kootiepatra He explains away Han and Luke’s prominence by describing them as “perverts”, because JJ Abrams really hates white men thay much /s
@WWTH That argument that movies (and comic books, and TV shows and literally anything else) with PoC and women as main characters don’t sell needs to take a dirt nap. Some people are tryinh to explain TFA success as “Well, it’s Star Wars, of course it’ll make money”. Basically just more goalpoast shifting and arguing in bad faith.
Uh, I’m no Star Wars fan, but wasn’t Luke Skywalker an orphan with no finances or “support structure” (whatever the hell that means to Aurini)?
Yeah, Vader was his father, but he didn’t learn about that until way later and his aunt and uncle were murdered. The only people he had were Obi Wan (who died later) and Yoda (who he only interacted with a little bit). His other two companions were robots, one Vader mostly built and he finished later.
And he had no “finances”. I don’t think dear ol’ Dad Vader set up some kind of trust fund for the kid, or his sister.
Again, not a Star Wars fan, so take this with a little salt here (Aurini’s provided plenty of it).
I don’t think Aurini gives a shit that an orphan with no money can become a hero (otherwise he’d throw Luke into this conversation too), I think he’s just mad that this particular Broke Hero Orphan is a woman. Of course, he can’t just come out and say that, for reasons.
It amazes me how much of the manosphere is made up of life long failures like Aurini demanding to be given credit for the things that other men have done. They never want to take blame for all the awful shit, though. Hmm.
Ooooooo, the projection is strong with this one. (Ugh…smells like Axe, whisky-sweat, and stale cigarette butts, too.)
Aaaand I just got an awful mental picture of him and Jordan Owen (“Chewie”) doing just that, in real life. (Are they still feuding, or have they patched it up? Ah well, doesn’t really matter. Everyone knows this is just the sort of thing they’d do.)
One gets the feeling he hasn’t seen reality any more than he’s actually seen the movie, either. Newsflash: An awful lot of young women graduate high school looking rather plain (and/or hating their looks), have the hiring system stacked against them, don’t get any financial breaks in an increasingly costly post-secondary education system, DO take a lot of financial hits (pink tax, anyone?), and not only does the legal culture assume they’re lying when they press rape charges (IF they do, which they usually don’t), society at large also believes us to be naturally slutty, dirty, stupid, you name the negative trait. Even innocent 10-year-olds are assumed to be jezebels asking for it, especially if they’re not white.
But then again, considering the source, of course it’s always Opposite Day with him. His opinions are the scattershot ramblings of a drunken fool, and to be taken no more seriously than belchings.
At this point, I’d be more surprised to see him throw a dart and hit the target at all, never mind the bull’s-eye.
O RLY? Feminism wasn’t invented by men. Everything we’ve achieved, it was fought and died for, BY WOMEN. It wasn’t just handed to them by a Man of Great Wisdom. Learn some history, Davis, you embarrassing buffoon.
CITATION NEEDED. Especially for that last phrase.
And female inventors and thinkers were hardly “occasional”. History is rife with them. English Lit, for all its shortcomings, is brimming with them. Even an idiot like Davis Aurini would realize that if he’d learned some. And if he weren’t in fucking denial…
GUFFAW. What the actual fuck does this even mean? The “masculine principle” is as much a fiction as the Dark Side of the Force. And how the hell does a woman who submits to men ever accomplish anything, other than making a complete doormat of herself?
Ah well. Good thing this feminist has better things to do than submit to the mental masturbations of a Davis Aurini, who would be nobody if he didn’t have feminism (and women like me) to rail against.
And who is still nobody, anyway.
Unfortunately, they still are. The Mary Sue posted an article and they’re been all over the comments claiming it’s only because it’s Star Wars. POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT IN THESE COMMENTS: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=974089329325439&id=115945628473151
(I say possible because I haven’t seen it so I don’t know if the potential spoiler happens or not.)
Above is one of the arguments. It’s really pathetic.
I didn’t think TFA was derivative of A New Hope, I thought it was a restatement of that movie’s themes.
You mean like both Luke and Anakin Skywalker?
(Yes, I know that Luke technically isn’t an orphan, but he basically is, and until Empire Strikes Back, thinks he is.)
@Cthulhu’s Intern
It seems to me that orphaned kid becomes hero is one of the most common storylines out there, so I have no idea what he’s on about other than maybe he’s got an assumption that women are big balls of feels that need constant reassurance for their feels or they crumple into piles of tears and menses.
Magnesium:
Not only do they not want tot take credit for any awful shit that was done, they don’t want to acknowledge that awful shit occurred.
Auruni is just another mediocre white male, who has accomplished nothing on this planet beyond being born, shitting, eating and breathing, acts that are easily accomplished by small animals.They have never done anything extraordinary and never will. They’re overprilvileged nobodies with no real objectives to accomplish and not enough imagination to come up with any.
As for his vocabulary skills, I got one thing to say about it:
https://youtu.be/Izpa9D7c77U
Kupo: Yeah the orphan narrative is the basis of about a million and one “Chosen One” story lines, in just about every area of fiction, and in America these stories tend to be almost exclusively white male power fantasies, that one day they will get to be special and the world will recognize their awesome geniusness.
Speaking of Cowboys
http://www.americancowboy.com/article/history-vaquero
Aurini, you should thank the Mexicans, you white supremist.
So with that logic any movie that has the main character being a white man I assume the one who made this movie hates women and poc? About 90 percent of everything we watch and play are white men so you have no right to complain and be all mangry which by the way are feelings. Geez and people say women and feminists are the ones who overreact.
While Aurini is being a useless, destructive failure who needs to move away from society but thinks everyone who isn’t a white man is that instead.
FTFY we all know what you really mean. And also the Internet, beer, etc and your very life were created by women and all the stuff like Cowboys, medicine, etc were invented, discovered, etc by poc so PRICK please if it wasn’t for us you be nothing.
And also I find it funny that white men like these think they are superior but overreact to the simplistic of things, excuse their actions like they can’t control themselves when they kill or rape etc, they have a difficult time building male shelters, etc and somehow women, feminists and poc rule the world.
Okay, this bugs me, but he’s using the English (from England) spelling of “labor” and I’m pretty sure he’s American. Unless he’s Canadian. Do they spell it with a “u” in Canada?
Nope, women and minorities like poc instead take the blame.
I think this is another case of manospherians hearing a term somewhere and then completely misusing it. I’m guessing he thinks genderfluid means when someone acts outside of typical gender norms.
Of course they are. I should have known.
I don’t disagree that the success of the film is mostly due to a preexisting fan base + marketing and I don’t think anyone is claiming that its success is all due to Boyega and Ridley. But of course, the goalposts are shifting. They argued previously that audiences only want to see white male stars. If non white male stars/characters are objectionable, shouldn’t that have at least put a dent in the box office?
I just can’t get past the fact that he doesn’t know Finn’s name.
…And then he tries to blame that on “SJW” websites. *rolls eyes*
I consider it evidence that he didn’t actually watch the movie, but it’s also hilarious that he basically said he doesn’t know how to use imdb (or wikipedia), and he considers that a “win” for him.
@Jackie,
We do, yes. We keep a lot of the UK spellings for words.
Is he Canadian? If so, ugh. Yet another of us that needs to be delivered to the nearest January muskeg, to keep him away from the rest of us for awhile. I apologize for his existence!
White male supremists and other antifeminists be mad about feminists, women and Poc “complaining about first world problems” and being kill joys but rant for days about women and Poc having roles in movies, etc.
I can’t wait for a trans/disabled/both woc character, I’m scared but curious too for their reactions.
Yeah, occasionally women invent stuff. Just little things like beer and pottery. Nothing important.
@lkeke35
I used to play a Star Wars MMO called Star Wars Galaxies and you could make a character bio that everyone could read. One of my favorite things to do was to read those bios and laugh about how similar they all were (mime included–I wasn’t judging, just found it to be interesting and amusing). A good half of the players were orphans. Usually they had vowed to avenge their parents. I actually got about halfway through writing a similar bio for my character before I caught myself and decided to make her background really boring and ordinary because I thought it more likely. I think that that’s part of why I found it so funny to read all those bios.
Grudgingly awarded points for “Space Camaro,” if in fact he made that up.