complex women defined by solid characterization rather than a handful of underdeveloped masculine-coded stereotypes.
If you took our two good male characters Max and Nux out of the movie, Furiosa and the girls (and to a lesser extent the Vuvalini) would still have motivations and character development and narrative arcs. But if you took the women out of the movie, the men aren’t left with a plot of their own. THIS IS INCREDIBLE TO COMPREHEND. I have spent complete minutes lost in wonder at how rare this is to find in any movie, especially a big explosiony one. Without Furiosa, without the women she is freeing and the women she is returning to, who raised her to be the woman she is, this movie just does not exist.
It’s interesting you know, doing these press junkets and having people come up to you and say ‘Ah, strong women, strong women!’. It’s like, no, we’re just actually women in this movie. We had a filmmaker that understood that the truth is women are powerful enough, and that we don’t wanna be put on pedestals or be made super unnaturally strong and capable of doing things we are not capable of doing, but what we are capable of doing is really interesting.
yeah, this is like how people are calling the movie “feminist” when I call it “the bare goddamn minimum”
we shouldn’t have to be making a huge deal about Strong Women like portraying women as capable and interesting is so fucking strange and yet here we are
1800s:
women: so we can’t vote, own property, divorce, get an education, hold public office and in fact are treated as property this is completely unfair
men: i don’t see what’s unfair
1950s/60s:
women: we’ve won some battles but it isn’t over–it’s illegal to get an abortion, it’s legal for our husbands to rape us, we’re treated as second class citizens in so many ways including employment–and this just names some issues
men: lol u can vote now what r u complaining about
today:
women: many women aren’t paid equally to men, and men commit acts of domestic and sexual violence toward women at high levels, rape and sexual violence are underreported and not taken seriously, women are incredibly underrepresented in politics and in many career fields, studies show that sexism harms women in all facets of life
men: check ur privilege
That’s what really bothers you, isn’t it? The one night stand. Man fucks woman. Subject: man. Verb: fucks. Object: woman. That’s okay. Woman fucks man. Woman: subject. Man: object. That’s not so comfortable for you, is it?
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