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ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's almost as if, if you write a character who is interesting and relatable, people will like them, regardless of whatever social politics are attached to them. But if you craft a character who is literally nothing but social politics posturing aimed directly at jerking off Tumblr, no one actually buys the comics (because it's pretty clear at this point that SJWs don't actually consume the media they complain about, even when it gives them everything they claim to want).

Current Hollywood is painfully learning this obvious lesson as well. Execs have a million reasons why films like Ocean's 8, Ghostbusters, or new Charlie's Angels flopped, but none of them seem to be "people don't like gender-swapping established properties in a shallow and obvious cash-grab attempt (well, Charlie's wasn't gender-swapped. Rather, it was subversive and tried to go against the very reason anyone gave a shit about the series to begin with: hot women playing spy by being hot and fun).

As you said a few paragraphs down, it's both sad and confusing, because it shows how little faith they have in creating original content that headlines a woman, while simultaneously having piles of examples that have been around for decades to work from (Alien, Kill Bill, Westworld, etc.).

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