I’m not from street culture but I know it (well) and let me tell you...there aren’t too many men who are cool with another man hitting a woman or his kids. People will let a lot of questionable shit slide in “street culture” but contrary to what rap says, men are not revered in the streets if their targets are women…

Where’s the watching a movie eating popcorn gif?

Max has kind of always been the reluctant hero. Even with his name in the title, he gets swept into conflicts not because he wants to, but because he’s more or less pressured into it and agrees because it’s his way of continuing onward.

Max did not talk much in the movies before this one as well.

Feminism doesn’t equate to man hating. Some people (on both sides) like to think it does, but, it doesn’t. So you’re not going to be hit over the head with anything that seems preachy or condescending to one gender or the other. Trust me.

You have it backwards.

Have watched any of the previous movies? I'd say BL borrows more from Max than vice versa.

Movie was spectacular. Didn’t fall into any of that bothersome shaky-camera-action-movie that so many films fall into these days. Right from the first scene, you are given a feeling of rugged suspense (shout-out to the camera work in the corridor scene— made the space feel really long and spread out, yet very…

What i loved about the movie, they didnt spell out everything for you. The mind is an impressive tool of the movie maker, meaning the mind of the viewer. Not showing in graphic detail the death of the Bullet Framer, or the C section made it all that more powerful. We got to see it all on our own terms, and that made…

Really it’s the status quo as far as feminism goes in the Mad Max universe. The other movies accomplished it well too in my opinion, so really it was to be expected.

Yeah, that was brilliant - especially Nux holding out the clip helpfully for Max, despite the fact that Nux had been draining his blood while Max was strapped to his car. Nux was brilliant, throughout.

I don’t like her much either, but I don’t like Ramsay more and it would please me greatly if Ramsay were to meet a woman he not only couldn’t torment and abuse, but who could give it straight back to him.

Oh, yeah, I love The Concourse. I didn’t mean to be dismissive of them, although I know it came across that way. I just think it’s kind of... sad that a deadspin subblog has a more feminist perspective on these scenes than a site made specifically for women.

I can’t tell you how refreshing this recap was after slugging it out all day with folks arguing about the closing scene. This though:

This is going to be so mean of me, but it was a just bunch of teen girls acting cool and I was very glad when Bronn got his shot in about how one fought well for a little girl and made her all ragey. I was hoping that Oberyn raised a bunch of fiercely independent women but these gals disappoint.

Outside of the Sansa nightmare can we talk about how REALLY BAD the sand snake “fight” was?? I know nothing compares to what your imagination can create but yeeeugh it felt sad and embarrassing. The Sand Snakes are something I loved so much about the book and this idea of a motley crew of badass sisters was so…

I agree with you expect what you said about Madeleine. I don’t get Jezebel’s reaction, at all. It’s not unexpected, because this is Jezebel we’re talking about, but how can they not realize how problematic it is? The Fucking Concourse has a really good write up of why this is fucked. (The Concourse is actually really…

And I don’t understand why people continue to use this as a smoke screen, as though Ramsay and Sansa’s marriage was 1) inevitable within this particular plot and 2) the only way we could have possibly taken Sansa’s plot. I’m not mad that Ramsay acted like himself once he married Sansa. I’m angry that in all the…

boy oh boy have i been waiting for this all day

And as everyone knows “I’ve never been into the show” means ‘I’ve never seen the show, but here is my opinion anyways.