Misogynists are losing it over Charlize Theron’s starring role in Mad Max: Fury Road

[blackspade]

I thought many in this group would find his article tragically amusing.
I have had little experience with the MRA 'movement' but some of the comments quoted in this piece makes me realize that they are waters best left uncharted by me.

http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/05/12/furious-about-furiosa-misogynists-are-losing-it-over-charlize-therons-starring-role-in-mad-max-fury-road/

and this:

http://www.dailydot.com/geek/reviewer-reaction-mad-max-sexism/

All I can say is that if the leftist pro-feminist socialist agenda is as prevalent in this film as these MRA assholes say, count me in for Fury Road.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Theron is usually excellent in everything she does.

Even crap fests like mad max retread.

[villager]

2. I saw it yesterday. It might be her best work. And the film is great.

In part, precisely for the reason that rightwingers are flipping out about it: It asks "who broke the world?," and shows feminist pushback against the 1%ers of the post-apocalyptic world.

[Gothmog]

3. The fact that these misogynists are upset makes me happy

[blackspade]

4. Same here.

[Jim Lane]

12. I'll be it makes the filmmakers happy, too.

Look at all the free publicity they're getting. Would there be a DU thread about some action movie if it had not been criticized by misogynists?

[delrem]

5. "MRA" - had to look it up.

Top definition at Urban Dictionary:

"MRA
Acronym for a group called Men's Rights Activists.

I.E. - A bunch of whiny pedantic morons that think there is some vast Illuminati feminist conspiracy while seemingly ignoring the fact that their own gender runs the majority of the world.
- Hey, you hear about that guy in Marketing that complains about his ex-wife all the time?
-- Yeah, I heard that he just got a raise and tried to take his ex to court to reduce his child support.
- Jeez, what a MRA."

[blackspade]

8. I personally like "male reactionary assholes'

[arcane1]

6. The guy who talked about how he keeps his daughter passive was heartbreaking.

[blackspade]

7. I know, that sickened me to the core.

I want the opposite for my daughter.
I want her to be free, self confident, and powerful.

[d_r]

11. Oh dear God

I went back and read to the end to find that. It is horrible and amazing and tragic.

[arcane1]

14. I'm telling myself that it was all empty boasting to impress his friend(s)

Either that, or a "Poe."

I'm going to keep that hope alive as long as I can

[d_r]

16. Yes I hope it was

a performance art piece to try to show the others how stupid they are.

[progressoid]

9. Well, I didn't want to see it,

but I might have to now!

also, what is "SJW-ing"?

a real action movie ever again that doesn’t contain some damn political lecture or moray about feminism, SJW-ing, and socialism.

[starroute]

10. SJW = social justice warriors

I don't know how it happened, but somehow the MRA types managed to detach "social justice" from its original meaning, apply it to feminists, and heap crap all over it.

[progressoid]

13. Ah, thanks.

I'm not up on all the lingo of the MRAs

[d_r]

15. idiots don't know what they are talking about

"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."

No, that isn't the point of Mad Max at all. Has this person even seen these movies?

In the first film, Max is a police officer. His wife is murdered by a violent gang and he tracks them down and brutally murders them one by one.

The whole point is that he lost that "self-respect." He became as bad as the animals who murdered his wife. He doesn't "see what the world has become," he is as bad and as empty and as moral-less as the worst of it. He isn't "strong enough," quite the opposite. He wonders the wastelands alone not really caring about anything. In the road warrior, he gets roped into helping this group of idealistic, good people who are trying to get a way to rebuild a good society. He doesn't want to do it at first, and they ultimately trick him, but at the end of the film there is this look of partial redemption as he enters the desert alone. This is furthered in Beyond the Thunderdome. The group of children has grown in isolation from adults and real knowledge of the adult world. They are innocent. Max saves them from the evil in the world. Redemption. That's the point.

[blackspade]

17. Exactly

And that misunderstanding of the films is what these fools interpret Max as "strong enough to see what the world has become."

Quite the opposite. he has been swallowed up by grief and anger at his loss.

[d_r]

18. Exactly

he is lost. He's lost his goodness and humanity and who he is.

This is actually why these movies were so popular internationally, I think, this is a classic story. In Japan it is a Ronan Samurai story, in scandanavia it is a wondering viking story, in America it is a western or batman and so on.

[Novara]

19. As long as the whiny MRA bitches are unhappy,

I'm happy. Might have to go see it. And I hate action movies.

Poor babies are so downtrodden, you know.