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    1. Feminist Frequency‏Verified account @femfreq 19 May 2015

      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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    2. Feminist Frequency‏Verified account @femfreq 19 May 2015
      Replying to @femfreq

      On the surface, Mad Max is about resisting a cartoonish version of misogyny. But that resistance takes the form of more glorified violence.

      24 replies 118 retweets 181 likes
    3. Feminist Frequency‏Verified account @femfreq 19 May 2015
      Replying to @femfreq

      Fury Road is different from many action films in that it lets some women participate as equal partners in a cinematic orgy of male violence.

      45 replies 176 retweets 262 likes
    4. Feminist Frequency‏Verified account @femfreq 19 May 2015
      Replying to @femfreq

      Feminism doesn't simply mean women getting to partake in typical badass "guy stuff". Feminism is about redefining our social value system.

      93 replies 502 retweets 696 likes
    5. Feminist Frequency‏Verified account @femfreq 19 May 2015
      Replying to @femfreq

      Sometimes violence may be necessary for liberation from oppression, but it's always tragic. Fury Road frames it as totally fun and awesome.

      45 replies 118 retweets 229 likes
    6. Feminist Frequency‏Verified account @femfreq 19 May 2015
      Replying to @femfreq

      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.

      38 replies 96 retweets 185 likes
    7. Feminist Frequency‏Verified account @femfreq 19 May 2015
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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.

      39 replies 159 retweets 321 likes
    8. Feminist Frequency‏Verified account @femfreq 19 May 2015
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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.

      43 replies 191 retweets 315 likes
    9. Feminist Frequency‏Verified account @femfreq 19 May 2015
      Replying to @femfreq

      Viewers get to feel good about hating cartoon misogyny without questioning themselves or examining how sexism actually works in our society.

      32 replies 183 retweets 363 likes
    10. Feminist Frequency‏Verified account @femfreq 19 May 2015
      Replying to @femfreq

      It makes me profoundly sad that mainstream pop culture now interprets feminism to mean “women can drive fast and stoically kill people too!”

      144 replies 563 retweets 961 likes
      Feminist Frequency‏Verified account @femfreq 19 May 2015

      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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        1. Anjin Anhut Design‏ @anjinanhut 19 May 2015
          Replying to @femfreq

          @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?

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        2. August Brown‏ @skullamity 19 May 2015
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          @femfreq The wives as a means to make healthy babies, the women for their milk, the Warboys and Nux as disposable fodder for the road.

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        3.  💀Kate Ashes-to-Ashes-win 💀‏ @KateDrawsComics 19 May 2015
          Replying to @skullamity

          @ranbrown @femfreq I'd say that's it's important that Nux is portrayed as a victim of the patriarchal society, too. A rare thing to mention.

          3 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
        4. August Brown‏ @skullamity 19 May 2015
          Replying to @KateDrawsComics

          @KateDrawsComics @femfreq You can even say the people living below Citadel were victims, too. They're basically being held hostage by water.

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        5.  💀Kate Ashes-to-Ashes-win 💀‏ @KateDrawsComics 19 May 2015
          Replying to @skullamity

          @ranbrown @femfreq Definitely. It just seems kind of reductive to ignore the deeper elements of the movie because it had violence.

          2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        6. August Brown‏ @skullamity 19 May 2015
          Replying to @KateDrawsComics

          @KateDrawsComics @femfreq This! And there were SO MANY elements, a lot of them purely visual. I can see how they might be hard to see.

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        2. August Brown‏ @skullamity 19 May 2015
          Replying to @femfreq

          @femfreq And personal agency is a pretty important thing for me as a feminist.

          3 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
        3. Hannah Stephenson‏ @thestorialist 19 May 2015
          Replying to @skullamity

          @ranbrown I so agree. @femfreq, you make good points as always, but I loved Furiosa's agency. She was the mastermind/hero.

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        2. The Norman Nightmare‏ @BLCAgnew 19 May 2015
          Replying to @femfreq

          @femfreq Not the message of the movie. It's about the rejection of toxic masculinity that treats people (men AND women) as disposable...

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        3. The Norman Nightmare‏ @BLCAgnew 19 May 2015
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          @femfreq In favor of people LITERALLY lifting each other up and celebrating fertility over death. "Our children will not be warlords."

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        4. The Norman Nightmare‏ @BLCAgnew 19 May 2015
          Replying to @BLCAgnew

          @femfreq If what you got from FURY ROAD was "women can drive really fast and kill people too" then you *profoundly* missed the film's point.

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        1. ro lamb‏ @byrolamb 19 May 2015
          Replying to @femfreq

          @femfreq I think it shows a level of progress that the mainstream can and should continue to build upon. Just my thoughts.

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        2. Kaitlyn Burnell‏ @KaitlynBurnell 19 May 2015
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          @femfreq You're not wrong, but...on the other hand, "action movie" is a genre I like. An action movie that avoids certain tropes is welcome.

          2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
        3. Kaitlyn Burnell‏ @KaitlynBurnell 19 May 2015
          Replying to @KaitlynBurnell

          @femfreq But sure--I don't think any university will be showing Mad Max in Gender Studies 101.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. August Brown‏ @skullamity 19 May 2015
          Replying to @femfreq

          @femfreq The focus of the movie was actually pretty great in how it posed that women AND men are victims of a patriarcal system.

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        1. August Brown‏ @skullamity 19 May 2015
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          @femfreq Max never treated them as objects, leered at them or made passes at them, and neither did the camera--

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        1. August Brown‏ @skullamity 19 May 2015
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          @femfreq What we got instead was women planning their own escape, fighting, learning, adapting and surviving while Max passively helped.

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        1. Ben Applegate‏ @benapplegate 19 May 2015
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          @femfreq Even the warboy who starts as cannon fodder ends as a fully developed character learning what true sacrifice means. (Hence, tragic)

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        1. Ben Applegate‏ @benapplegate 19 May 2015
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          @femfreq I also think the violence was often tragic. "She went under the wheels," "you would've had a brother," "witness me."

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