I’m not one to shy away from expressing unpopular opinions. So here goes. I saw Fury Road. I get why people like it. But it isn’t feminist.
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As a film Mad Max absolutely adores its gritty future. The camera caresses acts of violence in the same way it caresses the brides' bodies.
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"We are not things” is a great line, but doesn’t work when the plot and ESPECIALLY the camera treats them like things from start to finish.
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Mad Max's villains are caricatures of misogyny which makes overt misogynists angry but does not challenge more prevalent forms of sexism.
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Viewers get to feel good about hating cartoon misogyny without questioning themselves or examining how sexism actually works in our society.
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It makes me profoundly sad that mainstream pop culture now interprets feminism to mean “women can drive fast and stoically kill people too!”
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We’re starved for representations of powerful women but we need to re-imagine concepts of power & move beyond the glorification of violence.
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@femfreq All your points are super valid. But saying "it's not feminism"? Can't there be different forms of progress? Is this none at all? - 1 more reply
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@femfreq Mad Max reframes the lone action hero haunted by the ghosts of his past as a PTSD sufferer who has to rely on others to get by. -
@femfreq Everyone who treats violence as awesome and everyone who is presented as an awesome action movie protag is scarred or tragic. -
@femfreq The ultimate victors are those who choose to flee a cycle of violence. -
@femfreq If you don't think this is a feminist message, okay. If you don't think this offsets the glamorous nature of violence in film, okay -
@femfreq But I stand by the assertion that male violence is explicitly presented as the foe of the protagonists. -
@femfreq And explicitly presented as the reason the setting is dystopic. - 1 more reply
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@femfreq so the problem you have with it has nothing to do with equality, it has to do with it being violent?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@femfreq Idk, isn't the violence perp'd by women in the film measured, always defensive, generally not of a piece w/that of the male char's?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@femfreq There I disagree. There are consequences to the violence and those are shown. - 1 more reply
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@femfreq thankyou for this, I've seen a lot of people describe it as a feminist action film, which seems odd considering it stars a mad dude -
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