The latest instalment of George Miller’s action franchise may be set in a post-apocalyptic world with ‘old-school displays of machismo’ but eventually the women win out“This is the subterfuge they will use to blur the lines between masculinity and femininity, further ruining women for men, and men for women.” A stark warning of the potential fallout from Mad Max: Fury Road, courtesy of a widely circulated blogpost written to protest the relegation of Tom Hardy’s Max to a supporting role, and the appointment of Charlize Theron’s Furiosa as the film’s de facto protagonist.