I think hes consciously supressing that. I would understand, the prequels werent really good

@Marc T but it's a back story nevertheless.

@Marc T unless you've watched the Clone Wars. That humanized Anakin pretty damn well

even when overlooking the prequel trilogy, the ending of Star Wars is basically Darth Vader redeeming himself by saving his son from an agonizing death and turning on the most evil being in the galaxy. If that's not humanizing the biggest antagonist of the saga, I don't know what it is.

@Marc T Padme was 16 when Anakin was 9. Seven years difference. Pretty normal in real life. Between adult couples, I mean.

This is good content and I’m proud of you.

Lmaooooo

Well, yes, he claims he is both. It's not a contradiction, though

Ur-Fascism 101, the enemy is always strong and weak. And presumably, you are always victimized and conquering

@@gabriellavedier9650 Perhaps the real enemy were the friends we made along the way

I hope she’s doing okay.

@@lenenlawless I don’t think you and I are in the same time zone, but thanks

It also worries me that he named her Eva brun, who by the way was the name of Hitler's wife

@@YEY0806WHAT. Omg.

​@@YEY0806 Google says her name is Isabella, what is your source on this?

Things Stefan hates: 1. Women 2. Women doing manly man things 3. Women not obeying men (i forgot 4. Women having opinions)

@@chilanya you could argue 5. Women just strolling unharmed by MAN. Stefan might have 1-2 unsolved issues...

I had this book once: *_Star Wars: Luke's Fate_* It was a Step Into Reading book. And it showed he listened to a tape multiple times; Imperial Space Academy, or something. It also showed him racing a rival, Fixer, in - *_Are you lying down on the floor???_* - Beggar's Canyon!!! So yes, Luke *_IS_* a somewhat skilled pilot, and Jeremy of CinemaSins needs to stop saying: "ThE bOoKs DoN't FuCkInG mAtTeR!", because *_CLEARLY_* they do, partially because they tell parts of the story movies don't or just can't!!

@@JadenMoon1475 Luke talks about bagging womp rats in his T-38 (or whatever) in Beggar's Canyon. Lore wise the controls of that are supposed to be similar to the ones in a starfighter.

​@@mckorr2116: T-16, actually

Kilo101 lol. I know.. He is completely NUTS. The hatred for women has melted his brain.

Reminds me of hbomberguy's response to Davis Aurini's Star Wars critique. Davis: The only reason he nuts up and fights Not Darth Vader is because he got the scent of Feminist Skywalker's White Pussy into his nose. hbomberguy: ...............They must have cut that part out for the version screened in the UK.

L I T T L E W H I T E C U C K B A L L

He didn't watch any damn thing because everything with women is viewed through the lens of his mommy issues.

Best comment I've read all day

@bunnybreaker Oh god, I think I need video tape AND written instructions to pee, that’s how far watching just these short clips of Molypuke has dropped my IQ. He may as well be saying WOMEN WHO FIGHT WELL IN MOVIES ARE THE REASON WE CAN’T EAT BACON!!! I mean...what?!? Also...Jesus. Can’t. He. Talk...NOR...mullee. He out-Shatners Shatner.

That’s actually not what jumping the shark means, which is really when a piece of media runs out of ideas and becomes super absur... nvm

And his examples are one female character with copious amounts of espionage and combat training, and another with force magic who grew up in a harsh environment filled with criminals. Sound logic.

@@sissymarie2912 And even if Rey was more a Mary Sue than any other male main characters in action films, I think it would be perfectly fine. It's ok to sometimes lean back and enjoy some wishfillment, feel-good stories. If everything in media has to reflect reality, it would be really boring. We need escapism in our life to sometimes 'escape' from the mundane. On a side note, even if Luke had had a training montage with Yoda, the guy he beat up was freaking Darth Vader who had years of more training and experience and was a literal cyborg + a child of the force. How many years of training did Luke have before beating him anyway? The number comparison here is pure pedentry. Why draw the arbitrary line that how much training Luke received was in the ok category and not how much experience Rey had?

That False Equivalency is hurting my head!

I know, he acts like playing Macbeth is somehow dangerous or something

@@nathanaelwaters2509 It is a cursed play tbf :P

Fool... all actors are trained for one role at birth

This probably translates as 'I spent an hour or two waving around an aluminium display prop and this somehow makes me Toshiro Mifune'. The average LARPer, male or female, could probably take down this alpha male uber-warrior with very little effort, I suspect.

*While you were studying the blade I was studying Macbeth*

Killmonger, Vulture, Zemo, Magneto, Darth Vader, Kylo Ren, the RDA from Avatar, etc

Usually hindsight is helpful, but now it's clouding my memory... did Kylo Ren get his own sympathetic backstory (that is, "Luke tried to kill me!!!") in Force Awakens or in Last Jedi?

Let's not forget about Assaj Ventress.

And honestly, not every villain needs to "have a point", get a sympathetic backstory or be otherwise relatable in their actions, and it feels like a lot of (movie) writers toss that kind of stuff in just to tick a box. "Here's the bad guy, he's bad, now go beat him up" is a tried and true narrative structure for a reason.

@@stug6974 also if the villain is committing genocides, does it matter what kind of childhoods they had?

Bald lives matter

Zx Spectrum lmfao

Oh it's so many topics he touches on. Apparently it's because of taxes that he's not a billionaire. Right. It's a pity, because i think men need spokespeople for their issues today just as much as women do, as commonly accepted feminist rhetoric, besides sometimes being right and helpful, also sometimes ends up doing actual harm to society, so it does need to be challenged. But they got THIS GUY. This raving lunatic. I think that whenever he's right, he's only accidentally right, which IMO no better than being wrong.

Siana Gearz The thing is, the commonly accepted parts of the Men's Rights movement that most agree on, such as Men being treated unfairly in custody battles, is a direct result of traditional gender stereotypes, which feminism seeks to remove. As a result, the MRA are denouncing the best path towards better treatment for men, just because they don't want women to be treated better too, or at the very least are so partisan and short-sighted that they can't see it.

halokon, And feminist movement isn't short sighted and partisan? It redefines Patriarchy - which originally just means naming of children after fathers - into an all encompassing system where men oppress women. The movement completely defines itself in terms of this framework of oppression. This likely isn't entirely the truth - after all, how do you oppress the larger half of the society? In my view it's more likely, that the traditional strongly roled society is a result of a social contract, where men gained nominal/decisive power and women gained protection, a balance in which under harsh living circumstances, both sexes were the most content, and the society as a whole was the most functional. Due to changes in the nature of work and society, predominantly due to process of industrialisation, this social contract became obsolete, and feminist movement was necessary and inevitable. However, because it defines the start condition as is-condition, it lacks the termination condition. In feminist's view, the women are always oppressed, and no matter how many changes you implement, it's never enough, and never too much. From which, sometimes nonsensical policies follow such as where employers and educational institutions have been lead to loosen performance requirements of women or provide monetary incentives, so you see now an ingress of women in technical and scientific professions who do not have a sufficient innate interest or talent for the field. Is leading women to discover different innate interests that are not driven by traditional norms not a great goal? It certainly is, because we need more and better individuals in these fields as society as a whole, as it's our developmental way forward, inevitably in post-industrial society, but better means need to be found. Similarly, various statistics frequently quoted by feminists regarding rape, regarding pay equality, are heavily selective and skewed and lack a certain detail and finesse which would enable level headed discussion. So we never defined a new cohesive social structure that would completely account for the circumstances, and i think we never will just as long as we use feminism as the framework. The progress of feminist movement should enable us now to re-formulate the social structure question from the humanist perspective, to maximise the value for individuals no matter the sex and society as a whole. I'm afraid this is not going to happen until feminism experiences a countermovement such as MRM, which is in its current shape not fit for purpose.

@LEO2001 But in A New Hope, Luke pretty much succeeded at everything he set out to do, even quite foolhardy things like rescuing Leia from the Death Star.

@LEO2001 Also, when I watched TFA I didn't feel that Rei was presented as a flawless character. Rei's flaws are that she is judgmental and overconfident. When she meets Finn, she accuses him of cowardice and he tells her she doesn't know what she's talking about. Sean says the movie doesn't really take side here, but I think it does, and its clear that Finn was mostly right and Rei was mostly wrong. She didn't know what she was talking about w/r/t the First Order, she thought it would be easy to be brave and then found out it was actually hard, and in the end she learns the value of running away from a losing battle.

@LEO2001 Yes, really good point. Those five minutes of training made all the difference. So if Rey had spent five minutes training with the laser ball thing you'd be perfectly fine with everything else in the movie, aye?

@LEO2001 i think you're missing the point a bit. It dosnt matter if Ray is way too op or whatever because Stefan cant handle 'strong female characters' at all. It dosent matter how well written they are since his problem isnt actually with Ray or wonder woman. The problem is that he hates women and thats a really toxic enviroment for a child to grow up in.

@LEO2001 im not saying Ray isnt op (which she might as well be i have no idea and it isnt important to the conversation) im just pointing out that the original comment focused on the negativ effects Stefans blatant sexism could have on his daughter

Tbf it's not that impressive to move objects with your hands. How else would you even do it?

@@BrookeIsAnEditorMaybe kick it. I don’t know how football players do it, maybe they use the footy force.

@gavinj1456; Not her hands, her *_Mind_* And besides, you know who else is a Force Sensitive female? *_Leia!_*

It's also not anymore unrealistic than when male action heroes in movies are basically portrayed as one-man armies, given how in real life most men would not be able to take on 10+ people at a time in a fight without at the very least slightly getting the shit beaten out of them in the process.

Right!? Who bred with him? Is she okay?

His daughter, Eva Braun I think she is called, is probably pretty indoctrinated

as far as I've seen on his twitter and stuff, he's actually nicer to her than i thought

@@ambiguousmax7478 it's like the handmaid's tale, he jut kidnapped some chic and impregnated her.

@GREGORY RENK why are you implying you have to be in love to have sex? Lol.

Send me your account!

Efesex

That name is blatant Feminist Propaganda, I'm going to have to log into my account; Transendent Testosterone Tradition, and have you removed

Maxwell Zephyr I’m sorry, I must log into marxismos magnífico just to cancel you

Would also be a great name for a workout routine for women. 🤔

@@BS-eq3dj OH MY GOD DONT MAKE ME SAD LMAO

@Filthy acts at a reasonable price We'll always have Zuko.

Right? He said that and I was like "ope forgot I'm not allowed to be remotely well-adjusted because I have TRAUMA" like honestly how are there people that take this guy seriously

You'd be surprised what businesses I want to get rolling, and that they're to help.... That's right! The underprivileged *And Traumatized* children!!!

I started shaking when he said that... my wordt fear is that i will be like my childhood abuser. i would do ANYTHING to protect others from being abused

yeah, it's not like he always does his devastating mistakes because he desperately avoids reaching out to his new father figure in time.

Hell, he demonstrates all six diagnostic criteria of PTSD in book 5

He is frequently responsible for the problems he blames himself for, which is realistic because I'm sure everyone knows or is a person who's trapped in a spiral of fucking things up, feeling awful about it, and fucking more things up.

If Harry was an actual example of the kind of extreme neglect and abuse he went through he would have more than DEPRESSION. He'd probably be extremely emotionally disconnected or aggressive, borderline nonfunctional at times, and have attempted suicide more than once. I hate to agree with Stefan, but I don't think you have any understanding of what prolonged and severe abuse does to a child.

@@kelsierh275 I disagree while I dislike J.K Rowling, I think she did a pretty good job writing Harry and his battle with trauma, while he doesn't have depression or at least I don't think he does, he obviously has severe PTSD

JammyD2579 Does he not realize fighters are the most likely to be victims because of their hazardous occupations( soldiers, boxers, wrestlers) therefore they are most likely to be victims. So both men and women can be fighters and victims.

Funny, I get nightmares because some people still think "Jewish cabals" are a thing.

well their domination of media and industry has been thoroughly documented, and the evidence that they have their own agenda is overwhelming. the protocols of zion may seem like corny conspiratard bullshit, but the disturbing thing is that all the drastic changes that happened throughout the 20th century correspond pretty perfectly with the text of that alleged hoax.

ArnoldTohtFan You know a drastic thing that actually did happen in the 20th century? A European government systematically murdered at least six million men, women, and children because of crap like that. That was within plenty of older people's lifetimes! It really wasn't that long ago! CLEARLY the zionist conspiracy had shit well under hand. I'd spend more time arguing with your blatantly false conspiracy theories, but I have to go make sure that whichever cemetery just got vandalized wasn't the one half my family's buried in.

ArnoldTohtFan My great-grandparents left Russia for a reason, buddy, and I can assure you it wasn't for any grand conspiracy payouts. They were poor as fuck and made coats for a living and were sick of the fucking pogroms.

*Shaun:* "Nobody wants to see Luke farm all day" *Me:* "Which is why we cheer for him to, uh... wield a lightsaber, and we go so crazy when he destroys the Death Star. We *WANT* him to live the adventurous life he dreams of!"

Yeah, in all fairness the clone assertion is a massive mistake as are literally all the assertion about Fins characteristics. The commentator of this video is head and shoulders above Steffan

As Th3birdman said: "This is a level of stupidity so severe, I don't even think Jeremy of CinemaSins would've said that"

Unlimited He has mommy issues. Big time. He has to remind the world he was abused by his mother and blame all women for it. He should be in a mental asylum!

*****​​ I do not know every single feminist, and there are stupid ones and good ones . I do not know which ones could have had daddy issues or not. Why would I generalize all feminists??? That is besides the point about Molyneux. He hates women and blames them for everything because his mother was abusive . I see you are one of his cult follower drinking kool aid. I myself am not a "feminist", but if equality between men and women would give me that label, then I guess I am one. There are some stupid feminists, mostly Nord American, that might want special priviledges that does not mean all feminists are the same and all have daddy issues. Stefan is a psychopath and he indeed has mommy issues. 

B0badenvero8 It does not matter he has a wife and daughter. Many psychopathic woman killers had wife and kids, yet would go out killing women. It is irrelevant that he has a wife; he still hates women. I have listened to many of his podcasts in which he blames all evil on women. He is a disgusting human being.

***** There are and were psychopathatic killers that hated women and still had a wife. Look it up! Whether it makes sense or not, that is a reality. Molyturd hates women, he blames them for everything. I dont give a shit about Mgtow basement losers.

*WOMZ* ftfy

It makes me want him arrested cause that just implied some very disturbing things.

He has apparently never heard of women beating up men in self-defense in real life. Two woman friends of mine fought off and defeated rapists. One was untrained and kicked his shins bloody with her platform shoes and another knew kung fu.

for me it was the bit about vaders dick helmet and the death star fertilization

Dude, Rey could wield a lightsaber almost instantly, and you can’t fight off multiple intruders in a home invasion? Are they sith? Do they use the force? I didn’t think so.

fat gumbo jefferson yeah, that was weird because Darth Vader’s helmet is not supposed to be a dick, it was a combination of a Samurai helmet and a German WWII helmet. I don’t think Stefan knows what he is talking about.

That's an amazing band name right there...

@@weareallbornmad410 that's what i was thinking lmao

and alliteration, no less

@Dumbo Octopus Apparently she originally got called out for being a traitor, then she guns down the men that were starting to question her like a badass because she can't look bad in front of her army. It would've been really cool to have that as her actual ending.

Dumbo Octopus they wasted Gwendoline so bad

i mean , yeah , since blasters seem to have little recoil , and they, the storm trooper , don't have to carry their equipment , taking females would be make sense as a choice , afther you consider that they wear concealing armor and are trained and brainwashed , so yeah peraps the stormtrooper demografic might even be 50/50

Fun fact: There was a Captain Phasma origin story book. She was depicted as an outright terrible, fratricidal, human being with no redeeming qualities. Deliberate efforts were made to turn her from a faceless neutral evil in the movies to an actual villainous character.

And, since he mentioned maleficent and 'non brutal deaths' in the same sentence...poppycock, the lady got stabbed with a goddamn sword after turning into a massive black dragon, if that isn't brutal I dunno what is. I assume he was talking about the more recent movie in that little tangent, but still

Of course I'm so blind, it was there all along! The one true way to become an Ubermensch is from moisture farming! - Nietzsche 1900, five seconds before death

+Doughboy Devito Yeah Molyneuxs point was basically "How DARE you want to be anything other than a mindless wage slave!!!"

Only if you're a cult leader who lives off of donations from your followers. It's cool when stephan's a freeloader, but if other people try to be happy the normal way it's wroooong.

Luke should have made KZfaq videos pandering to hateful bigots for money then Moly would have respected him. Or at least wouldn't have criticized him not wanting a different life.

Plus staying home to work on the farm while the war rages is traditionally seen as a female role, not a male one. There's lots of female symbolism in that whole mother earth concept, dirt and caves are seen as wombs in a lot of cultures, etc. Comparing Luke to that sort of thing positively and then being mad about "feminine symbolism" "emasculating" men in TFA seems... inconsistent... on his part.

almost as if there aren't that many badass female protagonists in scifi who are well known.

Pretty sure that to him all female characters who... are able to do something? Are an example of feminism having gone too far lmao

@@overgrownkudzu Ellen Ripley

@@overgrownkudzu Well I guess with Rey included we still only have two in the Star Wars movies. Hint: it is not the one in the bad trilogy. Edit: Three if we count Rogue One and about thousands if we skip the protagonist part and the "Movies part" and just delve into "awesome female characters in star wars". The star wars setting literally has some of the most famous, strong females in Sci-Fi and it is a shame to see Rey not being one of them.

Well you see that would take at the very least decent researching and arguing skills which he clearly didn’t have since he wouldn’t have made that dumb video of his in the first place

And reviewing a Star Wars movie like does he know about darth Vader like …

@@bluefacestan1826 Stefan: I know Darth Vader he's the guy in the big dark helmet, he kidnaps the Princess Vespa after his planet began running out of oxygen.

"...but if there's two it's balls." - Sigmund Freud

*Sig-Moonfreud

GravityGuava This is a 5 star comment

@@lilacrain3283 It's a _ludicrous_ comment...you know...space _balls?_ I'll see myself out.

@@LautaroArgentino That’s no Sigmoon, it’s a Sigspace station

So you felt sympathy after seeing the Clone Wars? Also, Vader didn't have a sympathetic backstory, he really didn't have much of one at all. Plus, the three films that had Anakin in it, was telling the events of what happened before the original Trilogy. It wasn't solely about Anakin, especially since the Phantom Menace barely had Annie in it, and when he was, didn't understand the events going on around him. So actually its two films that have a villain's beginning, but wasn't solely about the that villain or making him sympathetic.

***** It's pretty obvious that Lucas was trying to make Anakin sympathetic. If he didn't succeed, it's not for lack of trying. I'm not sure what "solely" has to do with anything. VII isn't "solely" about anything either.

Star Wars was like the worst example he could have picked, but I think there is indeed a point to be made about men being portrayed as disposable.

google "fridging"

The Smoking Dog You didn't feel sympathy for Anakin after the prequels? The prequels is the story of how Anakin was failed by his master and the ignorant Jedi-Order which made him easy pray for the emperor. Of course he has to own up to his decisions, but if you go back to the movies and put a little more thought into it, you can see that Anakin is correct in his criticism of the Jedi-Order. They are a ignorant, self-serving and blind organisation. All of them failed Anakin and made him easy pray for the emperor. Anyone who is interested in more constructive "reviews" of movies you should check out "CinemaWins", the ones on Star Wars are very interesting.

Aaand, Han was separated from his ship for an unknown period of time while its many proprietors made modifications to it, which explains why he isn't familiar with the new systems. Rey, on the other hand, has lived most of her life on Jakku and for all we know, the Falcon might have been there the entire time, giving her opportunities to explore it, tweak around in its systems and know about the compressor. Two important bits of information that are delivered through mise-en-scène and/or dialogue and that Stefan completely failed to pick up. *slow clap*

That Rey lives on salvaging valuable parts implies that she knows *which parts are valuable*, which in turn implies that she knows all that other stuff.

@@gdpacnw5126 Exactly. You can't make a living selling used car parts unless you know what each does, where it goes, when people need it and when they don't. Sure that doesn't mean you could build an engine from scratch but you'll have to pick up a lot of mechanical principles just to know what to charge for things.

That's what I was thinking as well. Rey literally takes apart space ships to make a living, if she didn't know how to fix it she would be really terrible at her job because being a user automobile part salesperson who sells broken parts is a good way to not have any customers.

​@@gdpacnw5126the way I took it was think of scrapping car parts for money... You know which are the most valuable for market and scrap what seems to be the most valuable not thinking about what it does just how to remove it and what it's worth... Now normally you would need to know what it does if you're selling it to a buyer but she's not... She gives it to the shop owner for portions of food and that's it... So by that logic she wouldn't know how to fix stuff like that.... (Maybe make the individual parts more clean) For even if I was a tradie and worked with taking apart different things I still wouldn't know how to build them unless I had built many things similar and then experimented to find it out through trial and error.... DEFINITELY NOT being able to do it first try (I can take apart and put a fridge together but that doesn't mean I can rebuild a broken air conditioning unit... Especially not seemingly instantly)

I was genuinely confused when he said that. Thought he was going for the vegans for a second. Lmao

@@ombelle5284 Clearly you haven't seen enough Stefan Molyneux, that dude is obsessed with eggs to the point where even most hardcore misogynists like him seem reasonable on the matter. His thing with Taylor Swift's eggs was mindblowing for me, utterly baffling how this dude even exists.

@@TayTayMakesBeats when he said that the death star was an egg and the torpedo was a sperm cell, my brain shut off for a few seconds

​@@Gloomdrake your brain's self-preservation instinct kicked in.

@@TayTayMakesBeats Stefan is goofy and corny af. After he filmed that video, he definitely jerked it while thinking about making Rey watch him penetrate the Death Star egg. And as he climaxed, he cried, “War-nography!” I can’t believe he has a daughter. I hope she survives him and manages to become a kind, empathetic person in spite of her dad, who is a hokey, bitter man.

Finally!!

Nah, I disagree with Stefan on basically everything down to the word but Rey definitely is a Mary Sue. Of course there are tons of Barry Stus in media but when it comes to Rey and quite a few other female protags in Hollywood like Captain Marvel there is a very clear trend of a super hollow and forced kind of superficial empowerment. Liberal/corporate/media progressivism is kinda trash, it projects the aesthetic of progress without much deeper behind it. Rey as a character is unbelievably dull and is almost immediately not only good at but better than anyone else at a whole range of things that extend far beyond her upbringing. Of course all of this is a writing issue, I'm sure Daisy Ridley would have done a great job with better material but my issue is with why she was written the way she was. My point is that especially around the time the sequels were released Hollywood was using the veneer of progressivism for attention, media praise and as a shield from criticism. It's also really easy to write a Mary Sue or Marty Stu, the difference being that Marty Stus aren't used to pass off bad art as something socially important. Big budget Hollywood movies will never make anything resembling a deep critique of patriarchy, capitalism, the social construct of race or gender or whatever. They use the "strong female lead" trope, diverse casting and general social justice issues in a pretty hamfisted way for their own gain. For example Black Panther is by all means a pretty mediocre movie. Thematically inconsistent, poor writing, boiler plate cinematography, some of the CG looks like something off a PS3 game or Sam Raimi's Spiderman movies and yet it's near the top of the top 10 highest rated (by critics) movies on Rotten Tomatoes. It was cool to see an almost all black cast in something that isn't about slavery but does that make it a great or even good movie? Of course not, yet it was treated like it is because of its progressive elements. Same goes for a lot of "strong female leads," they're made to be superficially empowering at the expense of them being actual fleshed out characters because that's what makes money. There are failures like the abysmal Ghostbusters remake but that was so blatant and poorly executed that nobody in their right mind would say it's not a dumpster fire. Otherwise surface level wokeness is the name of the game because it works. You can call all of your critics bigots because half of them are, it's a built in self-propelled defense mechanism that makes reasonable people have to argue against people like Stefan or the Quartering for bad or mediocre art. Super cynical, makes genuinely good progressive causes look bad because Hollywood elites don't tend to understand what they project their values to be.

@FilthyDankWastemanFabuless Aye I know I rambled a lot back there but I'm definitely right. I think it would be more accurate to say that Rey is an exceptionally poorly written character and a noticeable part of that is how the "strong, independent woman" trope replaces actual personality or character. I doubt that the writers and producers understood or even cared about feminism, I think it's purely based on money, attention and praise/defense by (overwhelmingly liberal) media outlets.

I mean she kinda is. She picks up a lightsaber for the first time and is able to duel with someone who has trained since he was a child. Same thing with Finn using a lightsaber. There's other examples and star wars has Gary sue characters too that people don't critize nearly as much as Rey but you say she's not a Mary Sue is just kinda dishonest. The sequels are just poorly written and written to pander to what old executives think the kids these days like instead of telling a good story with well written characters

@@Comuniity_ But you do agree that it's not just Rey right? Stefan still has no fucking point in his interpretation of this movie as "anti-male sexism" or something.

"I am a jedi... like my father before me." Such a top tier quote.

I wouldnt necessarily say empathy. But the refusal to act on hatred. Either way, great movie

This is also mirrored in TLJ when he almost kills Kylo out of fear, and then realizes what he was about to do

@Caleb If by “mirrored” you mean “utterly ruined” then yes. Luke would never try to kill his nephew after VI, because that was the whole point of his character development.

@@user-br8jc8tf1p also the film's climax, where luke saves the rebellion, defeats kylo ren, displays the greatest mastery of the force ever shown all without taking any aggressive action. It is literally the perfect jedi moment.

Rengar39 when he said he played Macbeth I cringed.

There's no other way to say it : he has reached maximum punchability. Everything from the shape of his face to the littlest ways of emoting of this man have converged towards attracting clenched fists at full speed.

He looks like a pshyco stalker and I hope his daughter is far away from him.

Not only that, but they are usually two hours long

Certain drugs achieve their effects by damaging brain cells. Maybe his viewers get a high off of the brain damage.

Stefan is one of the goofiest, corniest, and cringiest members of the manosphere. The expression on his face after he said “war-nography” was nauseating. I actually said out loud, “Gross.” That cornball thought his BS was absolute gold. Later, he probably jerked off to his “brilliance” while trying desperately not to think of how badly he wants to make Rey watch him penetrate the Death Star egg.

@Robert Allan I hope so

"how could women possibly be abused, asking for suggestions"

This is good content and you should both be very proud.

@Dario Hassankhani I'm at least laughing that he got yanked off KZfaq XD

Sorry for the 2 years later reply, but Stefan's mannerisms and opinions are almost exactly the same as my coworker, that I eventually had to kick out of my team... I just needed to rant.

@@noh-1386 you have the patience of a saint, if I knew Stephen Molyneux, then Stephen Molyneux would be toothless and bleeding by the side of the road.

he makes me ✨stabby✨

And it is clear to me that what saved Harry was meeting Ron on the Hogwarts Express. It was forming this friendship and Ron telling him about Slytherin's reputation that resulted in Harry being sorted into Gryffindor, putting him on the path of becoming the hero of the story.

@@GermanLeftist I think Draco is also relevant here, as he inadvertently confirmed what Ron had been telling Harry. Not intentionally, mind you, but that does kind of play into his ark through the story.

To be fair, their baseline personalities were rather different. Harry tried to accommodate the unfair behavior of his adoptive family, while Voldemort at the same age was already manipulative and showed overtly sadistic tendencies. Harry used magic impulsively when stressed, while Voldemort had begun to wield it deliberately and in a calculated manner. From what we know of the orphanage it wasn't actively hostile towards Voldemort, just somewhat neglectful as such a place, likely underfunded/understaffed, tends to be. Harry on the other hand was trapped in home that actively hated his existence and who were deliberately repressing his very nature. Another key difference is however briefly he had a family who loved him, where Voldemort did not, at least not in that kind of way.

@@willowarkan2263 yeah but also even ignoring voldemort's story, a frequent theme was harry being tempted by his connection to voldemort to do the wrong thing, but choosing to do the right thing anyway. there's actually a couple quotes directly about how you are defined by your actions, not the things that happen to you

@@vitalyaloves fair. It was Voldemort doing the pulling, it was this supernatural voice that tried pulling him into a darker path, arguably that shows even more strength of character in harry, since he had to contend with an hidden outside force for pretty much his entire life that most others don't.

Kind of like how Luke was hidden on Tatooine as a moisture farmer, and Leia on Alderaan as a royal scion.

it was ass pulled and not really hinted at

@@jaydenc367 to be prophetic doesn't require hints, that's kind of the whole point

@@techissus7449 Rey's whole thing was her mysterious backstory, if they wanted to create a good backstory answer that makes sense and people can guess would be the case then there SHOULD be hints, there were genuine hints in Empire Strikes Back that Vader was Luke's dad before the official reveal, there was NOTHING hinting that Rey was Palpatine's grand daughter or that Palpatine's clone son and wife left her there.

@@jaydenc367 ok but what does that have to do with predicting the future? I can say the world will spontaneously spur into dance and people will doodoo fart and le epic pranks everywhere and if it comes true that's prophetic, it doesn't require me to see proceeding events without prophecy

*Superior victim mode activate*

I’d volunteer to oppress him in real life.

@@Lafemmefutile *I'VE SEEN ENOUGH PORN TO SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING*

@@countbinfaceglobalpresiden7926 and i haven't seen enough

Bringing up Disney really demolishes Molyneux's argument. Walt was so right-wing that he fired employees just for having pro-union sympathies, and so many of his films depict REALLY dysfunctional families. Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi, and countless more were raised in single-parent households. Peter Pan and the Lost Boys were not raised by parents at all! THE LITTLE MERMAID and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST depict interspecies relationships. POCAHONTAS has the heroine outright defying her father and nearly getting him killed in the process. And Mulan certainly doesn't abide by the morays of the traditional nuclear family (well, at least not at first). The reason, of course, is simple: if you put child characters into stable nuclear families, you don't have an adventure; you just have a sitcom.

@@SeasideDetective2 I think that it's a bit of a stretch to say that Beauty and the Beast depicts an interspecies relationship considering that the Beast was a person who was turned into a beast, and he's still fully conscious and able to speak on a human level.

@@mastermarkus5307 look at him. look at her.

I know this is an old comment, but this is even funnier now that the second movie of the trilogy is out, wherein Phasma came back only to get killed.

@@lithiumkid Nah, I’m with the other user. The Beast is a human person who is under a(n ultimately) temporary spell that forces him to take the form of an animal. He has the sentience of a person and Belle falls in love with the Beast’s humanity, personality, and kindness-i.e. who he is as a person. Furthermore, there is no physical intimacy between Belle and the Beast when he’s in his animal form.

I had to turn him down every time the video cut to him

yeah the part where he says he's "mindlessly horny" (haven't seen the movie so i don't know how accurate this is under any lens) for "obvious reasons" definitely sounds like, to him, those "reasons" are that he's Black

@@lavernebennet7395 That's dog whistles for ya. He hasn't said it but people who need to know will hear his message loud and clear.

Given that Stefan later decided to become an explicit white supremacist (ostensibly because he enjoyed his holiday to Poland so much), I'd say you're right. He's a prime example of the MRA-to-Nazi pipeline

@Luís Andrade Um, didn't Stefan literally say that he had become sympathetic to white supremacy/white nationalism after visiting Poland? There's a clip of him saying it in Shaun's video about Steven Crowder and the definition of white supremacy. He literally said it himself, on video. Not to mention him being friends with Jared Taylor, a prominent and active white supremacist and editor of a white supremacist publication. If it quacks like a duck, etc. And if you're going to split hairs about whether a given white supremacist is technically a Nazi, all you're doing is enabling Nazis. My point about the pipeline is that Stefan seems to have started out as a libertarian with a misogynist streak, and has got steadily deeper into the far right. There is an MRA-to-Nazi pipeline - the far right loves to recruit angry men who have a problem with women. I'm not saying that every misogynist is a Nazi - I'm saying that the online far right uses misogyny to suck people in.

@Luís Andrade Ah, a Nazi hairsplitting about what technically counts as Nazism. Very funny. And I'm a people of European descent, and can confirm that we are a bunch of assholes.

I think he doesn't realize that women are different from other women. Like how some know space kung-fu and some don't.

and that the women in question has fucking magic.

Wait, are you saying that women in real life don't know magic?! Then how have I been controlling spiders to attack MRA dudes?

It doesn't even matter, because even war veterans can get shot and trained fighters can be assaulted. Even people who are experts at combat can't be expected to account for every scenario in which their life or bodily autonomy is threatened, let alone the average person. Being trained or strong doesn't make you invincible.

TheSeptet .....you must teach me your ways....

Yeah I want to like the women, but they keep blowing up the planet. So annoying.

With your state-subsidised hypergamy, apparently

...with your vaigna based laser i presume

With the entire hindsight of the whole mess over with, it sucks the best Phasma stuff we got was in those comics noone probably bought.

@@gratuitouslurking8610 I very much loved that she was this enigmatic mystery person with a striking costume, who clearly could've had a bigger role in the story if it wasn't cut short. That's what Star Wars did great with all those original bounty hunter and anonymous prequel Jedi characters, and in the sequel trilogy they did a lot of that with all the villain characters; suggest that any one of these space LARPers could've had a film trilogy all their own, to downplay the main character's uniqueness.

Phasma was kinda disappointing though. I was expecting more from her. Instead she was just something shiny chrome to look at. I hope she does more in 8.

To be fair, her force powers are way too strong, like, she shouldn't be able to do mind tricks in the very first film with no training whatsoever.

+Smoked Wees you know, that was my main grip, and it made me feel Rey was overcompetent in all things to fit my narrative of excess. Then I slowly came to realize her force manifestations were actually my problem, not just "everything" about her. Well, that and the fact that I didn't find her to be much of an engaging character, but hey, to each their own. Mind control has always been portrayed as a complex Jedi skill, unlike nascent precognition or the ocasional involuntary telekinesis. That makes the scene where Rey mind controls someone kinda jarring, even if the idea may be that she's actually astoundingly strong with the Force... Also, since I hoped they wouldnt rely on the "protagonist is among the most gifted force users ever" trope again for this trilogy, I would still find that rather disappointing.

My thought was that she was really good at it. Like, mind tricks were the *thing* she was good at, Force-wise. Plus, she did learn from Kylo after his, you know... mind-rape session.

TheSeptet, if it actually turns out that you're right about mind tricks being her thing, that's actually pretty standard for superpowered females in fantasy - the guys always get the more physical magic powers whereas the girls tend to be stuck with more mental and person-oriented stuff like telepathy or mind control. So it's even more ridiculous to have all these MRA/alt-whatever people complaining about them being feminist mangina power fantasies or whatever.

That's a surface reason, but you do have to dig into the authorial reasoning as well. After all, we could easily have rearranged those scenes from another character's perspective, or from a 3rd-person neutral one. Shaun is right, in that it's a deliberate narrative contrivance; Lucas is obsessed with the monomyth, and tries to use it as a roadmap in everything he does.

They gave you the stregth to carry on

Hey man compared to Stephan you're basically Jesus.

Fake ID Or the fact people take that piece of inane shit seriously. Btw love the Daedalus profile pic.

Fake ID I once had an argument with a person who said this - "Stephan is a master storyteller like Orson Wells". I'm not kidding, unfortunately I'm not.

Eh, I have to agree with Stephan on this one point, mainly cause he's not the first to notice it. I don't necessarily think it was intentional, but at the very least it carries as much water as the interpretation that Hamlet is gay. The imagery is definitely there, the movie a coming of age story for Luke (and many men have that sort of coming of age feeling about losing their virginity, especially the ones that haven't), and to top it off the sequence comes at the "climax" of the film.

Fake ID It’s the latter, frankly. A chunk of the current generation is going to need to be deprogrammed when they hit 30.

To be completely fair there's enough implicitly sexual imagery in the climax of "A New Hope" to make that comparison.

anne berry I feel bad for the poor girl.

Oh man......I really hope that that kid grows up with good, positive role models in her school life etc. so that she is happy because Stefan's parenting (if you want to call it that) would probably leave that poor kid without any self-esteem or self-worth.

Poor girl probably has no self-steem, can you imagine? if she gets raped he probably would say she's overreacting

According to Stephan, his daughter should never aspire to be good at anything because it's unrealistic.

His daughter should aspire to be everything, and get tf out of there.

it's so ridiculous, the arguments he's making. most men are stronger than women, probably all men who train the same as women will be. but Stefan doesn't look like he's at the gym 3 times a weak after taekwondo to me.

it's a reasonable assumption tbh. it's not like, a secret that he's really racist

Its ok, in wars they encourage you to avoid land mines ha ha.

@@leifstennes9822 - Except that they don't. Maybe try talking to actual feminists, or at least learn and read a bit about the theory, instead of just watching alt-right youtubers react to fake outrage content. You'd have a better grasp of reality. The reason why men _lose_ custody cases is because of patriarchal notions that women are supposed to stay at home and take care of the children. The reason why men have higher suicide rates is because a patriarchal society puts all the pressure on them AND toxic masculinity prevents men from having the same emotional support structure as women. ^ All those issues are *_feminist_* issues. They're two sides of the same coin. No feminist is going to "scream" at you for being concerned over those issues. The problem with a lot of MRAs is that they use those issues as an excuse to oppress women MORE.

It's because anti-feminists don't actually care about suicide rates, combat fatalities, or any of the rest of it. It's just a convenient weapon to use against women they don't like due to mommy issues or whatever.

Also the “men die more” has a pretty simple explanation: there are more male characters both major and overall on screen in the first place.

Wukong is literally forced by the plot through magic to not murder

Personally I find it interesting how many people look at the Stormtrooper armies (Both Imperial and First Order) and think "ah yes, surely this army of billions of completely identically dressed, faceless people must be all human and all male! That is totally a functional way to raise an army of this size!"

One of the specific things he mentions in his “ ball crush test” is “are women villains represented sympathetically, as compared to male villains?” And Fasma is given no backstory, no motivation other than being an officer for the first order. Out of the three baddies Hux, Kylo, and Fasma, Fasma by far gets the least depth

She should, his a sexist pig that deserves no love

His eyes often look like he's crazy high on meth.

I'm sure he is.@@mrnonsense1031

And like, half of his other asks are answered by Phasma. "None of the stormtroopers are female!" Uhh, Phasma. Female villain without a sympathetic backstory? Check. Female characters are all invincible? Ya, nope.

@@KingBobXVI Barely a villain though, the only thing she did was fight Finn that one time and destroy Star-killer base the other

TacticalOtter2 he's said if his mother were not his mother he would have killed her

That makes so much sense and honestly makes me genuinely sad and also has me using a term I save for rare occasions; yikes.

Feminism, its ruining the idea that women aren’t objects,

I get the feeling he's sargons dad or something. Wonder if Sargon will look that good when h'es 80 lol. Nahhh... I'm sure he will continue to look like the poster child for the frog men because he is one lol.

Well, he says he was raised as a latchkey kid by an abusive single mom who dated a lot of men in dead-end relationships, started on welfare then became a career woman. Sounds like Jack the Ripper's psychological profile!

Yeah, Stefan thinks all men are like the Spartans in "300", lol!

Well, to be fair, the stormtroopers in TFA were stolen as children and raised to be soldiers. But I agree that just because of that, doesn’t mean you can’t get killed. I mean, I could be a CIA/KGB trained ultra masculine ubermensch, that doesn’t mean I can’t get domed by a toddler fucking around with a handgun.

Because he loves to believe that men are simultaneously horribly victimised yet incredibly heroic. Especially himself.

@@knshinn2 typical trait of fascism

@@darlalathan6143 - I just find it funny that he uses "men with neckbeards" as an indicator of strength. Like, what? Ok there, buddy.

I always found Rey's force powers to be somewhat more advanced that you' might expect for someone who didn't even know what the force was just (giving the benefit of the doubts) a few weeks before, and who has received absolutely zero training.

​@@GoranXII Did everyone miss how Kylo Ren mind melded with her and somehow "awoke" the force in her, and she was able to tap into some of his memories and abilities? I don't know it might be the title of the movie or something, and like the only consistent plot point in the sequel trilogy.

@@mai_komagata She somehow got memories from the lightsaber on two different occasions (one before she even met Kylo), an ability never witnessed before in Star Wars, at least, since Disney scrapped Legends. Both that and 'being awakened' were really just ass-pulls to get Rey out of tricky situations.

We all have our shames about our parents... But it must be really bad for her since her dad is semi known lol. She can only hope that people turn their attention away from hating her for being related to him to someone else who's simply more distracting lol. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l9WkbMdzl57HiKM.html

I know right? I mean never mind his OBSESSION with finding and killing the monster who murdered his parents... or betrayed his parents, or MIGHT have betrayed someone who KNEW his parents. Or the massively heightened negative reaction he has in the presence of dementors. Or his nightmares. Or short temper. Or difficulty with figures of authority. No none of that stuff means a damned thing. I got genuinely annoyed by that statement.

Me too. And it's so baffling because Harry is konstantly chewed out for this behavior, often by his friends and authority figures - he's only ever a saint when directed by Chris Columbus.

Avalon Azure and he’s British... ew.

The beeeeeessssst mental health.

Harry clearly suffers from post-traumatic stress at the very end of Deathly Hallows; after killing Voldemort, he is greeted by applause from all the portraits in Dumbledore’s office, and initially thinks that the burst of noise is “the sound of death, and the return of Voldemort,” just like how combat veterans have flashbacks when they hear loud noises like fireworks.

My family is asleep and I cackled out loud when he said that shit it's so overwhelmingly bad

This is good content and I’m proud of both of you.

That was the first thing my young impressionable mind thought when my weak victim mother and my strong protector father let me watch it. XD dude is unhinged

I was kind of following his thinking through the whole video i.e. 'i understand why he, coming from this worldview, interpreted it like that' but then that happened and my jaw hit the floor... like, what the fuck?

@@morallyconflictedtortoise6494 - He has a conclusion he wants to reach, and the movie doesn't _actually_ support any of it, so massive logical leaps have to be made for him to reach his stupid predetermined conclusion. And this is the result.

I would NOT love to see what this guy thinks about that.

I think we all know what Stefan thinks about Alien. "In this film, a woman took charge of a situation and didn't become pregnant, which is totally unrealistic and an attack on men, 0/5 stars"

no, he would love it because ellen ripley is the designated good female protagonist

He seems to have a low-key hatred of his parents, too... he would definitely benefit from psychiatric therapy of some kind... he'd be there for years too, so really great for the economy.

I mean what would ya do, slap em?

I can just imagine him back stage crossing out lines and putting in their place '"blink emphatically."

That's Hamlet, not Macbeth. Macbeth is the one with the murdery wife. “Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!” etc. EDIT: My apologies, for some reason I thought you were paraphrasing the graveyard scene from Hamlet-the skull, not the dagger.

I can imagine, Molyneaux, on the stage, Lady Macbeth trying to convince him to murder, and then he starts monologuing about how this is typical female behavior and they should never have been given any rights at all. And then instead of murder he just blinks emphatically.

Someone please rewrite MacBeth with Stephan Molineaux as the main character! Of course, Lady M wouldn't get much of a soliloquy before he happens onto the scene to start his own. "ACTUALLY..."

peccantis or any Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, what light through yonder window breaks it is the east and Juliet is a feminist conspiracy to immaculate men as are all women etc

Michael Rowlands lmfao. He is a nut job.

Sometime of his ravings sound like the more far-fetched statements of Jaques Lacan.

I thought the same thing! He's either smoking some good shit, or bat shit insane!

Michael Rowlands he is such a douchebag

Does that mean that a galactic civil war is analogous to the force jizzing?

Honestly what a cringe lord lol

With the most punchable face of all time.

@@hewhoadds - He was really getting off track and trying _real_ hard to give some kind of hitler speech at the end there. Like, the fuck man, dump some cold water over your head or something and calm the fuck down.

My projecting has doubled since I last made a video, Shaun

This is the greatest projection of All Time