If this is a feminist movie answer me this?

Because feminism needs male oppression and victimhood, so it can survive it heroically, rise from the ground and beat the male oppressor, dominate him and use him as a tripod during the shooting lesson it is about to give to him...

I'll throw feminism a bone and say that Fury Road is feminist in the way the modern movement WANTS you to think of feminism. It's more egalitarian than feminist, though.

Feminists hide behind the dictionary definition when people criticize their movement, which is a weak, heavily flawed tactic that conveniently lets them get away with not addressing said criticisms.

As much as I love this film and find it to be a masterpiece, there really isn't anything new here as far Furiosa is concerned. So when people praise her as this revolutionary female hero I just can't help but get annoyed at how people ignore the dozens of other female heroes we've had just to push a narrative. She's a good character performed well, but not anything we haven't seen before: Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Hermione Granger, The Bride, Clarice Starling, Marge Gunderson from Fargo, Princess Leia, Rey, Marion Ravenwood, Katniss Everdeen, Marida (from Brave), Coraline, Ana and Elsa from Frozen, Most Disney female characters, Rita from Edge of Tomorrow, the two women of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the girls from Death Proof, Hanna, Trinity, Laurie Strode, Sidney Prescott, Nancy Thompson, Black Widow, Selene from Underworld, Mama from Dredd, Alice from the Resident Evil films, the mother from The Babadook....and this is just a list off the top of my head of popular and/or well received mainstream films (This list doesn't even go into smaller budget, indie films). All of these characters and more are well loved by critics, fans and general audiences.

So yeah, Furiosa is nothing new.

So, back to why I don't truly consider this film feminist. It's too fair. The film revolves around issues that are considered feminist to the core: The exploitation and abuse of women. But this is where the feminists who praise this film as some personal anthem AND the idiot haters who see it to be propaganda both fall flat. Immortan Joe isn't just abusing women. He's abusing everybody. He may keep a handful of beautiful women as his sex slaves...but he also keeps a legion of men as his own personal brainwashed army. Not only that, he keeps the poor masses of men, women and children in his palm by withholding the worlds most precious resource from them. He's an equal opportunity user and abuser. He doesn't make a special case of only hurting women.

"But but but...the film has an all woman warrior tribe named after VAGINA'S in it! How is this NOT feminist propaganda!?!?!" Well, the film doesn't exactly portray the Vulvalini as pure, perfect women does it? Sure, they slag off men...but look where they are: Wasting away in the sand because they let their distrust and hatred of men rule their lives. Their outlook is expressly shown as WRONG in the film. Most of them get killed pretty damn quick in the final chase too. This film hardly shows preferential treatment to women. If they worked harder and put more trust in men...maybe they wouldn't be stuck in the dunes slowing dying off.

If it weren't for Max and Nux...all of the women in the film would be dead. Hell, Furiosa alone would have died on multiple occasions if it wasn't for Max. For a film that supposed to be this "rah rah go WOMEN!" empowerment trip, the women sure do seem to need the help of us icky old men a lot.

This film promotes EQUALITY. It promotes working TOGETHER for a better world. To me, this does not reflect today's feminism.

Max beat Furiosa because the "reality" is that Max is simply the better fighter.

BRAINLESS feminists would have you believe women will always beat men in everything, just like ISIS would have you believe Muslims are superior to everyone else.

It's an egalitarian movie with some feminist tones. Ultimately without the two males alongside with them helping, the females would never have reached their objective. By the same token had Max stole the rig and there been no killswitch, he'd never have made it far alone either. Had he gone to the canyon he would have been attacked and found it probably impossible to fend off all the Rock Riders by himself. Had he gone elsewhere, he'd surely have been attacked by others in huge numbers.

There's no way Furiosa could beat Max in a 'straight up fight', which is why she dived for the gun. The film doesn't insult us with this idea Furiosa was just so incredibly powerful she could beat 2 guys while being physically smaller as well as disabled. She gives them a run for their money, which is good, but for her to have gone up against a feral-like Max and wiped the floor with him would have been ridiculous, after we'd been shown the sort of odds and violence Max was used to dealing with.

It's amusing seeing so many people STILL trying to defend this film as not being associated with the big bad and scary F-word.

2 things:

Its cool how every line is under the microscope. If the old vulvalini suggests"it could be a girl" she maybe just wanted to say sth comforting to the dag (who in her eyes was a rare young fresh creature, sth like her daughter). That sentence made sense in
the scene. Its neverever a hint that a girl is better than a warloard jr. I mean come on, the mere depiction of the ugliness of the men in the movie (except the two heros nux and max (ever noticed the similarity of those two names????is it just me... n(m) u(a) x(x!) Ahaha) is enough.
It could be just a well told story. Sometimes ppl stick out when they have to. All is not lost.
Thats it.

Because feminists have seen it as a female empowerment movie. So has the director. That counts as feminist, right?

And because of the misleading title: Max is not the main character, Furiousa is.