LogFAQs > #937142233

I'm not quoting and snipping that classic PO wall of text.

However, we live in a media landscape where a movie like Ford v Ferarri--a historical drama based on auto makers in the 50s and 60s--was criticized for "reckless burning of fossil fuels" and the fact that there weren't enough blue haired non-binary blind amputees of color in it.

We're looking at "Snowflake and Safespace" in the new Marvel books.

RE3r is one long "rape fantasy" because the zombies don't ask for consent.

The blue checkmarks will piss and moan about media they were never going to buy anyway because outrage generates clicks.

If anything, my biggest gripe with Capt. Marble was her inability to smile unless she was talking down to a man, and the total convenience of the mannequin with the NIN t-shirt being exactly her size.

I enjoyed Black Panther. My biggest concern was how they determine which members of their society get to go cosplay dirt farmers to fool the rest of the world while the rest of the Wakandans get to live in futuretech luxury.

I don't care if Valkyrie is Bi. I don't care if Archangel is gay. I don't care if Miles Morales is Muslim. If your sexuality or religion is your defining character traits, you're a pretty boring person.

Nightcrawler was turbocatholic for decades. Colossus was overtly Eastern Orthodox and the story never ground to a halt for a third of an episode for mandatory religious doctrine the way Supergirl grinds every episode to a halt for it's mandatory 10 minutes of lesbian drama.

It's possible to do things organically without taking focus away from the main plot. Instead, we have the media overlords deciding to beat us all over the head with it bluntly for woke points, pandering to people that ordinarily wouldn't have consumed your product in the first place.

That's the problem I have with it all.

You can be a gay or non-binary character without being flaming. Dr. Smith might be a borderline example, but what about Poison Ivy, Checkov, Harry Kim, or 7 of 9?

There's better ways to do representation than stopping every episode for Corky's scene.

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