Interviewer: You’ve got this rage within you. Where does it come from?
Charlize Theron: Uh…surprise. Women have that. I’m not the only one. (x)
#i will never get tired of looking at Furiosa’s various murder faces
Attn: all the white feminists complaining that Furiosa isn’t a good feminist icon because she’s “acts like a male action hero” – rage is not masculine. Angry female characters are not “emulating men.”
I actually had that debate with someone right after I saw the movie (a dude, with whom I agree on many things politically), about whether you could call a movie where women use violence feminist. I was all “rage and violence do not belong to men, even if they are coded masculine in our society.” This article says it much more articulately than I did at the time.
I would like to write something further about this, because I have a lot of thoughts as a writer/director about women expressing anger and being violent on screen, and how it’s often only allowed to be shown in certain ways. (I wrote about some of this in Furiosa vs. Tropes for Women in Action.) But at the moment I think the number of notes on this post is doing a good job of making my point.
