You know what I love about the Fury Road fandom? We’ll all sit around here on Tumblr talking very seriously about the social implications of women-as-commodities and whether that renders them non-entities in a hypermasculine society and what that does for performative masculinity as we understand it now. And then someone will point out a costuming detail and we’ll ponder the significance of the Gatekeepers wearing leather aprons and executioners’ masks and whether they’re holding scythes or what, which will lead to headcanon about some old custom of the Gate being used for more purposes than just coming and going, that it was a platform for executions during the establishment of Joe’s regime. And the conversation will go on for a while, back and forth. And then we’ll all get quiet and nod along and consider these things…
And then someone will come along and say…
“But, wait: what if you gave a bunch of warboys some hamburgers. What would they even do???”
And we all get real quiet for a minute and look at each other. And then we’re all
