I'm not sure, I picked up way more mental illness than gender from his POV. He seemed avoidant and socially disabled
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I would argue that in the context of the film these traits of mental illness are linked to maleness
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Every male character in the film including the "good guys" Max and Nux is unwell
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This is notable precisely because the closest we have to emotionally healthy characters are women
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The Wives (with Angharad's vision of a better world) and the Vuvalini Elders
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Furiosa is deeply damaged inside but that's part of her clawing her way from the world of women to the world of men
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Earning the title Imperator (a masculine gendered Latin noun)
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Furiosa heals by reconciling with her past from before the Citadel
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Neither Max nor Nux are capable of healing because neither of them have such a past
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(If you take the past movies as canon, Max did once have such a past but it's been irrevocably destroyed)
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Nux, who literally was born in the Citadel, has to die before the new world can be born
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Max, whose past is ambiguous, has to go on to search for his own redemption somehow (symbolized by a hallucinatory little girl)
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But either way the world of the Vuvalini is not for them
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