What Everyone Thinks: 2015 has been called the Year of the Woman by several prominent commentators, given the number of strong, outspoken female protagonists in big blockbuster movies, the two most memorable examples being Charlize Theron's Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road and Daisy Ridley's Rey from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. These movies have been labelled as "feminist" as a result in articles such as this, while films with arguably regressive depictions of females (for example, Bryce Dallas Howard's heel-wearing ice Queen Claire Dearing in Jurassic World) are deemed "sexist", and then there's those movies that are straight-up confusing, such as Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, which boasted a bada** femme fatale in Rebecca Ferguson's Ilsa Faust, but director Christopher McQuarrie insisted upon shooting her in the most leering, "sexist" camera angles possible. The Truth: As Freud once said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and though Mad Max was in effect the ultimate pragmatic compromise of "the man and the woman work together to kill the bad guy", the kneejerk labels that agenda-driven websites often force down people's throats come off as desperate and pandering at best. Yes, it's great that we're getting more awesome female characters in movies, but we don't necessarily need a 10,000 word treatise on why George Miller is the only male director who "gets it", or why Colin Trevorrow is the spawn of Satan for "reinforcing the patriarchy" so aggressively. It's icky. Just enjoy that this is happening.