I will respond to you without viritol.
What made that commenter obnoxious was that she trolled every response- and I say trolled because she outright attacked everyone, by essentially coming across as though she were screaming at people. When you end your posts “back to your videogames”, and well, read her posts- she wasn’t even trying to be civil.
I’ve normally learned to just shut the hell up when people disagree with me- as people who can’t debate civily without snark and viritol simply aren’t worth my time. Nor would I be of yours if I did so. I’m not here to insult anyone- when someone continues to scream at the top of their lungs at others and berate them- even if they are right, they lack legitimacy.
Yes, I have taken film studies classes. I try not to make assumptions of people blindly when I don’t know them. It was actually a good part of my degree- I spent semesters doing nothing but analysis of Japanese cultural films exactly along the lines of how you are analysizing Fury Road. I learned to see the critiques of society through the filmmakers lens on Kurosawa, Itami, and many others. From samurai jidaigeki films to modern takes. I’ve seen a lot, and been trained to see it. I am not a professional film critic or analyst, but I understand the framework. Fury Road the way Chu’s article analyzed it is a perfectly valid and honestly, quite obvious take on it. I saw it that way the whole movie, it practically beat me over the head with it.
I’m not arguing with the violent men ruined the world view in the movie, or that Nux redeems himself, or anything like that. It’s plain as day to see that was a strong point made in the film. You don’t need training to see that. It’s a bad guys screwed up the world, and we want to fix it storyline.
What I AM furious about is this- that my mere sexual assignment by birth boils ME down to a critique by anyone that I am inherently violent, and incapable of civility compared to the other half of my race. That’s bordering on phrenological, master race-esque eugenics level justification BULLSHIT.
I am not here to insult, belittle, flame, troll, or defend misogynists. Me calling bullshit, it’s not meant as any insult- it’s just that, I call bullshit. I’ll be damned if I let anyone, male or female, treat me like I can be judged so easily simply by the gender I hold.
Do you think transgendered people would like it if people tried to argue they acted a certain way because of their transgenderedness? Why do you come across that it’s ok to do that to me, because I’m a man? You don’t know me. I don’t know you.
I saw the movie the day before it was officially released. Yes, I watched the movie. How could I discuss it to any degree without doing so? See Rob’s review thread on the film- my take is there.
Here’s what I find the saddest- I feel that no matter how reasoned I try to say it, or how loud I could scream, or insult you, or empathize with you (which I have tried to do- I outright called the analysis you adhere to perfectly valid, among many other possible views of it), no matter what I say, I am and will always be something for you to dismiss, to laugh at, to ridicule, to mock, to hate- because I am a man, among other things, but because it’s easy to jump on a hatewagon. It’s hard to get off. Please, disprove my view- I don’t care to see anyone in that light.
Everyone, do me a favor- if someone can’t respond civily to you, if snarky deriding gif images is an acceptable response in lieu of a reasonable discussion, ignore them.
If you care to have a civil discussion with me, we can do that. But drop the hate and derision. It does not flatter you.
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