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.
I know, you also forgot to mention the fact that the imperial forces are made up entirely of white men, ( other than a few robots ) except for maybe the storm troopers, who sound white. Not to mention the fact that the human rebels fight along side aliens in “Return of the Jedi” and of them, Gial Ackbar is an Admiral. That means that he gives orders to many of the white human troops, and I would imagine that they would be severally punished for disobeying him on the grounds that he isn’t a member of their race. Oh and lets not forget their army wasn’t segregated at all, and that one of the humans who fought for the rebellion, Lando Calrissian was a black man and they made him a general. That means that most of the white people in the rebellion were subordinate to him as well.
The Rebellion doesn’t sound like a group that Davis Aurini would even consider supporting.
Re gender and translation:
Hebrew, like other Semitic languages, is very gendered. Not just pronouns, but also adjectives and verbs (with a few exceptions) have feminine and masculine forms, and nouns have to be either feminine or masculine. So kinda like the problems you mentioned for Manga, but somewhat even more so. (Also, a pretty annoying language to be genderqueer in; I have a genderqueer friend and xe’s had to work out some way to express xeself, and for people to adress xir, both in writing and in speech, and then has to take a lot of crap from people who just don’t get why xe ‘insists on messing up the language’. Ugh.)
I know the translator of Ancillary Justice had some problems in that aspect, one of which was that the Hebrew word for ‘justice’ is masculine; he ended up going with ‘integrity’, which is feminine. I saw an interview some time ago that had him and some translators to other languages speaking about their challenges with this book – could look that up later if you’re interested.
Latin, and thus many European languages, has grammatical gender. Now, Latin actually has masculine, feminine, and neuter genders, but neuter is specifically genderless; some nouns can be one of multiple genders but adjectives have different endings depending on the gender, which must be the same as the noun they’re referring to. So when used in a sentence a noun usually must have a specific gender. Noun endings may also vary based on gender, though as far as I’m aware that only happens for neuter vs. not neuter.
RobertLudlum
“Butch”? Nonsense.
Apparantly, Roosh refuses to see the movie due to it’s malignant manbusting misandry. Which means no-one will have to risk sharing a movie theater with him (and the movie theater won’t have to decontaminate whatever chair he’d have used).
So, yay^^.
And also, not a surprise in the least.
These types really see anything featuring strong women as inherently anti-male.
Uh oh! Looks like someone feels the need to bring up a women’s appearance even though it has fuck all to do with anything! Yeah, I’m sure that the tallness of his wife is the reason why JJ made a movie featuring a strong female character. /s
@PI
I WAS SO PISSED THAT VIVIAN’S CHARACTER WAS CHANGED FOR THE NA RELEASE. Yeah, cuz being made fun of for your lack of adherence to gender binary is totally not an experience that kids can relate to *eye roll* /s
@PoM
SPOILERS FOR TFA
I do love that scene where Finn watches Rey get attacked, he is ready to jump in to save her aaaaaaaaaaaaaand she is able to resolve the situation all on her own!
To be fair, he wasn’t entirely wrong- I went to see it with my girlfriend (are we girlfriends now? we didn’t really discuss it. I hope so) and we spent quite a lot of the film kissing. In conclusion, STAR WARS MAKES YOU GAY.
“Uh, no. That’s Jordan Owen you’re thinking of.”
Hey, now. No body-shaming, not even when it’s our enemies and they do it first. It’s gross, and it ends up smearing people who *aren’t* vile hatemongers but have a similar body type.
And “pervert” is just a useless, non-specific word that clings to the “two boxes” view of sexuality and often as not is used against LGBT people.
Saw the movie – had a great time – and absolutely no physical or mental damage resulted – reading the gibberish that Aurini however did mange to make Monday morning even more depressing.
Aurini used to live in Calgary? I’m so sorry. Between him and Ted Cruz it would be easy to believe that we’re all horrible, horrible people but we’re really not. We have the best mayor in the world, excellent post-secondary institutions, and an incredibly pretty city. We’re pretty good at fund-raising for a variety of causes, have a pretty decent homeless shelter, and have a really strong streak of multi-culturalism.
I am sorry if those yahoos make you think we’re all terrible.
@Paradoxical Intention
I had no Idea about Vivian in Paper Mario: the thousand year door being trans in the original Japanese version of the game. Thousand year door was the first RPG I ever played and honestly im now a bit dissapointed that they took that out.
Saw the movie. Really enjoyed it. Thought it was the best since the first one. I’ve been using the phrase evocative of the first movie. There are certainly legitimate critiques of the movie; nothing that Aurini wrote qualifies as such.
What I found refreshing is how little Rey’s sex mattered. Could have reversed genders with her and Finn, wouldn’t have made any difference.
Rey is a person first and a woman second. She didn’t need to have her breasts digitally enhanced, she didn’t wear revealing clothing, there’s no bikini scene. She didn’t use her sexuality to get out of, or into, any situation
One of the things I’m interested to see in the next movie is if they can keep that up. Or will they fall back on the tropes of a formal occasion to show how good Rey looks in an evening gown and have her become Finn’s love interest.
I hope not, if Rey never dresses up, I’ll be really happy. If she is celibate through the entire trilogy, be just fine with me.
I realize that I’m assuming they’re both cisgendered, which is not a given in the real world, but, in the Star Wars universe, think that’s a fair assumption.
It must be distressing to believe (apparently sincerely) in a movie’s fatal flaws, then see it released to positive reviews and thunderously successful box office. It’s as if objective reality differs from his point of view.
Fortunately for us.
“Apparently there are McDonalds franchises in galaxys long-ago and far, far away.”
Quadrillions and quadrillions served…
@Vivian stuff
That’s not even the first time Nintendo retconned a trans character into a cis one – that’d be Birdo – and even before they ciswashed her, their treatment of her was transphobic as hell. Misgendering, dehumanisation (demonsterisation?), the whole nine yards.
I love Nintendo, but they have serious problems with cisnormativity (and heteronormativity – I’m death-glaring in your direction there, Tomodachi Life).
… Ah, fuck, I just realised my “Demonsterisation” joke could be taken as me calling trans people “Monsters.” Apologies all. >.<;; I just meant she's literally some species of monster, not a human or humanoid. My fault for posting before coffee.
The obvious emotional and social inadequacies of ALL of these men is so telling about their movement, and honestly just sort of fascinating to behold. Roosh begs for stupid, compliant young girls to bear his children in posts that are an absolute caricature of male hyperinsecurity and terror of intimacy, Jordan Owen obsesses over Anita Sarkeesian to a degree that could be described as pathological, while Davis Aurini makes grandiose speeches (using big words he doesn’t actually know the meanings too) while obsessively collecting obviously false affectations to prove to people that he’s smart and interesting.
The content of his videos are nauseating, sure, but look at how he presents himself. Toy skulls. Tumblers of scotch (that he takes such tiny sips of it’s patently obvious he doesn’t even like) Large statement hats. Unnecessary (and misused) flowery language that sounds so unnatural it’s like he’s reciting lines. Some truly horrendous (but carefully thought out) fashion choices. Everything about him SCREAMS male insecurity. “Look at these signifiers of male power! Scotch! Cigarettes! A skull! Look how outside the box I am! Look how smart I am! You think I’m smart, right? I have to be the SMARTEST MAN IN THE WORLD. That’s why I wear this hat!”
He reminds me of a really irritating, overprivileged white 18 year old who just took phillosophy 101 and came home for Christmas talking about Nietche like he’s written a dissertation on him (even though he barely understands the most basic tenants) And he grows out some horrendous moustache and starts pronouncing foreign words *extra* correctly, for he is a man of LEARNING now!
And you can almost forgive the 18 year old, because he’s a kid and will grow out of it and might even become a reasonably intelligent, decent guy. Aurini is a grown ass man locked in that teenaged state of mind because he’s so emotionally inadequate his ego can’t handle really looking at himself for any length of time. The pretentious 18 year old grows out of it because at some point in his development he looks at himself and goes… “Hey, maybe I *don’t* know everything! And now I think about it, this hat makes me look really stupid!” Aurini can’t handle that level of honesty with himself, which is why he’s a perpetual child.
It’s such an ironic fact about these guys who are so ridiculously overconfident in their mediocre (at best) intelligence… it actually makes them stupider. An intelligent person has had many, many moments where they’ve said to themselves, “Hey, that thing that I assumed to be true actually might be bullshit! Hey, maybe the things I take for granted as true all need to be examined! Hey, maybe I’m NOT that much smarter than everybody else, and I have a lot to learn!” That’s what makes them intelligent people. The people (and sorry, but they are, more often than not, men) who are so busy preening about their own intelligence they never reevaluate the opinions they formed when they were 16, are generally pretty dumb.
The Mary Sue has a wonderful counterpoint to Aurini’s nonsense:
Why Rey from The Force Awakens Makes Me Cry
http://www.themarysue.com/the-importance-of-rey/
Wonderful read, a few highlights:
Growing up, I played countless hours of Star Wars with my neighbor Robbie, and while he switched roles between Luke, Han, and Darth Vader, I always played Leia….Leia was awesome…But even as a little girl, I always knew that it wasn’t Leia’s story.
Rey, in The Force Awakens, is the Jedi hero I dreamed of as a child….Thankfully, wherever Rey’s destination, her gender seems about as relevant to her quest as Luke’s was… I will adore her for my 8 year old self, for all the little girls who now get to play Rey, and for the sheer beauty of watching this amazing Jedi swing a light saber….
@Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
I recall that they decided two characters in Street Fighter were trans, not cis, because that would make it okay to use violence against them.
@Ktoryx: Must a skull be a symbol of masculine power? The one in my house just, I thought, reflected an interest in spooky/macabre things and anatomy.
This guy is clearly a racist but he has a point. While we did see a female character ascend to the level typically reserved for men, the black character pretty much played the same fiddle he always has. They had play a somewhat ineffectual, lowly, loser pining for a woman he definitely can’t have.
First,dude has just escaped from the First Order, arguably the most dangerous organization in the galaxy and he’s clearly panic. Fair enough, yet he still takes time out to hit on the girl. To try to put his “mac” down, even while the lazers are flying and the bombs are dropping. It just played into stereotypes about black men that I really don’t want to go into. And then after that, he was simply the black support, willing to put himself in between danger and the white hero. Everything he does is for the benefit of the white heroine. And what we have here is a truly independent white heroine, which is great, but the male is still trying to rescue her. Can we stop having men always trying to rescue the woman?
@Ktoryx Or remember when Ross on Friends studied “ka-ra-tay?”
@ Owen
I love the Holiday Special. It also seems to feature the only example in the Star Wars universe of people employing railings.
*Spoiler*
Ironically, they kill someone.
o.O
I may have to suffer through it just to see this. I’d always thought that railings were like paper, in that the Star Wars galaxy evolved without those inventions.
@ cyberwolf
That’s not necessarily a bad thing. The first movie was just Lucas filling in the ‘Hero with a thousand faces’ template with bits from his favourite Japanese films; and it worked great. (Don’t forget he originally wanted to make another ‘Flash Gordon’)
‘Jaws’ is ‘Moby Dick’. ‘Independence Day’ is ‘War of the Worlds’ and ‘Taken’ is just a rubbish version of ‘Commando’ (it doesn’t even have a seaplane in it for gawd’s sake!)
Done well, derivation is fantastic. As the Dr Who team put it: “Talent borrows, genius steals and Dr Who writers get it wholesale off the back of a lorry no questions asked”