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.
First, I absolutely loved this movie and had no reservations about it whatsoever. I’m a total fan lol.
I just wanted to add to others’ remarks about female stormtroopers and it not being so clear cut that the people under the armor are any particular sex or race (something I think they illustrated very well in this installment).
My addition is simply that, until Kylo Ren took off his mask, I really wasn’t sure if the character was a man or a woman. I thought there was enough ambiguity to be unsure – Adam Driver is not a powerhouse bodybuilder like David Prowse (as Vader) was, and his voice is distorted somewhat through his mask.
I was not familiar with either Adam Driver or John Boyega in other work, and I loved their performances. When Kylo Ren took his mask off it took my breath away, because although I don’t know what I was expecting, I do know I wasn’t expecting a beautiful, tortured young man.
I don’t care if Rey is unnaturally good at everything lol I LOVED her and I would have wanted to be her in my younger fan days. To me, she was perfect.
I loved this movie, loved the young cast, loved the shout-outs to die-hards, and I can’t wait to see what happens next to these characters.
@CriticalDragon1177
I was just watching that Holiday Special the other night. I saw a bootleg version that had all the commercials in it from 1978. Brought back so many memories. It’s just so hilariously awful it’s brilliant in a weird way.
Forget that it’s Star Wars. It’s a TV special from the 70s with Star Wars characters in it. If you grew up watching Sesame Street or The Electric Company, you’ll understand. It’s babysitter TV to leave Mom in peace while she cooked the dinner. Those awful performances from Harvey Korman, Art Carney and Bea Arthur were standard fare back then. Watching it now it felt sentimental. I guess you had to be a kid at that time to really appreciate it.
Spoilers (if that even matters at this stage)
The Star Wars cast must have been expensive since they only had a minute or two each in the final product. The few minutes they have seemed to have been recorded before the final story was even written as they avoid saying anything that might affect the plot.
The scene where Chewie’s dad puts on the virtual reality helmet and watches a young Dihanne Carroll perform (wearing a wig that looked like shredded paper) seems to have predicted Internet porn. Did the producers know something we didn’t? Conspiracy?
Princess Leia SINGS! OMFG!!! I would love to tie up the entire Manosphere and make them watch that 1,000 times.
I feel sorry for Mr. Aurini. I’m serious. I don’t know if he can be helped.
With that said, I agree with “Three Snakes” above. That’s an excellent guideline to use for one’s behavior.
Uh, no. That’s Jordan Owen you’re thinking of.
On the gender-ambiguous character thing overall: In film, games, and other audio-visual media, any major character is likely to be perceived as a gender even if the character doesn’t care. In written English, gendered pronouns are generally used; singular they is reserved for people of unknown/no/variable gender. Basically, characters will have an apparent gender unless it’s deliberately concealed, and the mere act of concealing it is likely to tell the audience that it’s not the stereotypical expected gender.
The Ancillary series is interesting here, because its main character comes from a culture that doesn’t recognize gender distinctions and doesn’t have gendered pronouns, and the narration and dialogue invariably uses female pronouns except when characters are speaking in a language that does have gender distinctions. So my mental picture of the characters defaults to female until otherwise specified, except for the Lord of the Radch, who I picture as androgynous.
The lingual thing, incidentally, gives manga/anime translators fits. See, Japanese has no grammatical gender, both gendered and gender-neutral first-person and third-person pronouns, and the gender-neutral ones are used with sufficient regularity that it’s not odd to have a lengthy conversation using only gender-neutral pronouns. Also, while not true in common usage, in entertainment cis women may use the masculine personal pronoun “boku”. It’s very hard to get this into English without sounding stilted and unnatural, so translators generally convert them (and some uses of actual names) to whichever gendered pronoun seems appropriate. And then it turns out Otto is a cis woman:
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/otto_876.png
Most dramatic example: Crona in Soul Eater. Crona looks and sounds androgynous and in the original Japanese is never referred to with any gendered pronouns, and is a main character in a 48-episode series. The translators decided to use male pronouns rather than consistently use Crona’s name in informal conversation.
I didn’t see McCarther anywhere.
WHAT HAS HE DONE TO YOU, MCCARTHER?
Hungarian, and many of the Ural-Altaic languages generally, have gender-neutral pronouns and adjectives, as well as all nouns that don’t specify gender (such as “mare” or “stallion”)
You wonder what kind of alleged minds can go circling around and around the same damned thing all day, every day.
I saw The Force Awakens, and I can verify that my nads are still very much attached to my body and are in perfect working order.
Ah, but you know he doesn’t see himself as the bad guy. He thinks he’s very just and right doing what he’s doing. He doesn’t think he’s wrong in the slightest.
He sees himself as the Rebels. He sees himself fighting for the girl, the world, and his beliefs. He sees himself fighting for a world that’s “just” in his mind.
AAAAAAH THANK YOU FOR BRINGING UP CRONA.
Crona and Vivian from Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door are two points of sticking for me in their respective fandoms.
Crona because Crona’s agender in the original and the English translation has caused a lot of issues within the fandom due to our need to fucking gender everyone, even people who don’t need or want to be gendered, despite the fact that we have gender-neutral words to use to refer to someone.
And Vivian because Vivian was either originally transgendered (MtF), or a boy in feminine clothing, in the original release*, but because they were so feminine and dressed like their sisters, the decision was made to make them a cisgendered girl in the North American release.
Needless to say, I was miffed when I discovered the switch.
*(SPOILER: and since their sisters were very cruel to them, thus leading to them becoming Mario’s ally later in the game, it was a point they liked to make to tell Vivian constantly they were a boy, thus making them miserable and feel unloved in the original Japanese version, which I think would have been awesome to see in the NA version, because we rarely get to see stories about trans folks, let alone happy ones, and seeing Vivian stand up to their sisters who were so cruel and misgendering them just to make them feel awful would have been a good message for others to see./SPOILER)
Strictly speaking, Crona is of unspecified gender and may be any of genderfluid, male, female, agender, etc. So while “he” implies male, “they” would imply agender, which is also not necessarily true. The translation issue isn’t so much that we lack words for people who aren’t gendered, but that Japanese uses gender-neutral words for people who are gendered and have known genders. English generally doesn’t, so using gender-neutral words implies agender rather than providing no information. To properly replicate the effect in English, you pretty much need to replace all pronouns with the character’s name.
I think gender-neutral is the way to go with Crona, and the wiki apparently agrees, but then there’s the fan translator for Nanoha InnocentS trying to handle a scenario where one character thinks another girl in her class with a crush on her is a boy with a crush on her and this has so far gone on for three chapters without any characters noticing a mistake has been made, while the readers caught on instantly when her internal monologue used a masculine pronoun (It’s an AU of a series where they’re somewhat older and a couple).
Mind, Soul Eater was dubbed before singular they really took off, and Funimation has stated that they thought using “it” would be offensive.
I don’t play Paper Mario, so I hadn’t heard about Vivian. That’s just on purpose and has no possible lingual confusion excuse.
Oh right, example of what I mean:
Now, when I was composing this I deliberately decided not to use pronouns when referring to Crona. I would have written either “his name”* or “their name” rather than “Crona’s name” otherwise. Meanwhile, in Japanese it’d be something like “ano hito no namae”, lit. “that person’s name”, quite possibly even if talking about someone who is known to be male.
*That being the one the official translators would use
Check out the interview with Abrams, and his Amazonian butch wife, and it’s clear why we got this movie.
Just got home from the theatre. Now I can finally catch up on the manospherians’ weird conspiracy theories without fearing spoilers. 🙂
‘k, now that I’ve seen TFA and feel like I can read threads about it, I have to say that I do see Aurini’s problem … or what would be his problem if he’d actually seen the film, which he clearly hasn’t.
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that Rey doesn’t need rescuing. That’s obviously super-threatening to a dude who stakes half his identity on cis-men being superior to the lady-presenting types (the other half being staked on being superior to people of color). Here’s a major franchise, probably the most iconic story in America today, rejecting the notion that a lady who gets into trouble needs to wait quietly until the real protagonists come to rescue her.
I also think that he refers to Luke as a pervert because the relationship between Luke and Rey was telegraphed like a modern boss attack but he seems to have misinterpreted it, because he’s an idiot.
Saw it yesterday and loved it. Also wanted to smack the crap out of Kylo Ren. What a snot.
I think Kylo Ren could have been improved with some character development. He’s obviously going to have an important arc and I just don’t care about it, or him. He doesn’t have Vader’s charisma to make me care without having seen more than 15 minutes of him.
PoM, I laughed at “telegraphed like a modern boss attack” well done.
Also, recall that Aurini is an adult man who seems to believe that “game” can and should be used on young girls and young girl relatives alike, so it isn’t at all surprising to me that he would interpret any older man/younger woman relationship as perverted. I think he, like a lot of manospherians, is unable to conceive of a relationship with a woman or girl that is not primarily based on sexuality, whether that sexuality be encouraged, negated, or denied.
Gagh! I started off reading Aurini’s ‘review’ and had to stop because it was so loaded with spoilers.
Luke hasn’t turned into a fat pervert, he’s become Michael McDonald. Hiding out on Skellig Michael! Threw me out of the whole movie. The Skellig Islands are unmistakable if you’ve seen them before.
Aurini does have a point about the movie being derivative. Now it’s entertaining and well done, but there’s like one unique element and every other plot point is rehashed from the OT or prequels. I still enjoyed it mind you.
It’s like every other attempt to cash in on nostalgia by recycling an old franchise, except instead of horribly failing to capture what really made the original great they did the opposite of that.
Say what you like about Aurini, but at least he’s prepared for everything. If the roof of his house were to suddenly disappear, allowing the pitiless December sun to beat down upon his skull, he’s got that hat for protection.
Wasn’t Aurini supposed to make his own version of the Sarkeesian Effect? I mean, does he have to learn some new keyboard shortcuts or something?
” Unless he’s Canadian. Do they spell it with a “u” in Canada?”
Yep. He’s sadly very Canadian, albeit I think he currently lives in the U.S.
“Check out the interview with Abrams, and his Amazonian butch wife, and it’s clear why we got this movie.”
OK Robert Ludlum (not your real name I’m guessing), nothing you said there is actually offensive in itself, but as ‘butch’ is virtually never used by a man to describe a woman in a positive way I am going to interpret your comment as negative.
It has got to be the feeblest non argument ever. For a start I google Abrams and his spouse, and see a very tall (OK, Amazonian), EXTREMELY feminine woman.
Then the idea that his wife’s appearance/ demeanour has much to do with how the franchise has gone – yeah right, THAT is how the film industry works!
If you want to make negative comments please give us more to go on – we like to get our teeth into rubbish arguments here, but you’ve given us NOTHING I tell you!