Social Is "Woke" going too far?

[Helden]

Dodge noted

Not a dodge, your account literally did not exist when the thread bitching about little mermaid was made.

 

[UberHere]

Not a dodge, your account literally did not exist when the thread bitching about little mermaid was made.

Right so there was no meltdown over woke movies other than the one you imagined.

 

[Helden]

Right so there was no meltdown over woke movies other than the one you imagined.

There's always a meltdown over woke movies, it's partially the reason why you are on your 4th account

 

[UberHere]

There's always a meltdown over woke movies, it's partially the reason why you are on your 4th account

Whatever you need to tell yourself to feel better.

 

[Belaya Smert]

It jumped the fucking shark a while ago.
Now we have two political factions bastardizing the word.

 

[Lycandroid]

woke is dead, the marxists will have their new moniker soon enough

 

[Gotosleepho]

If they had made the lead character male you wouldn’t have heard a peep out of people that typically complain about these things despite the character was written as a female in the book. Having said that ATJ was an awful choice as Beth.

I loved her.

 

[Mike]

This girl might have single-handedly killed it for Disney



Money > Ideology

Well... usually

Man that's a creepy lookin bitch.


Fuck ...

 

[Blayt7hh]

How on earth is Bloons TD 6 woke?!

From the post, I gather that any game that acknowledges that gays and other ethnicities exist and that’s fine and normal is woke

 

[SuperAlly]

None of what you described is woke. Woke is injecting ridiculous left wing social justice ideology into the movie that does nothing to advance the plot. This used to be done as satire (see PCU made in 1994). The movie was ahead of its time foreseeing how looney leftwing academic and political culture was to become.

A prime example would be the latest season of Fargo. Of course they have to make the antagonist not only a trump supporter, but to comment on how great a man he is. GTFO

When woke was a serious term it was used to describe people aware of racial injustice, but it isn’t used that way anymore. What woke has become just makes a mockery of that.

It's also disingenuous to pretend there was backlash against her because she was black

There was backlash against her because of all the race and sexuality- baiting she did in the media and the general woke shite she got up to

Flipping out at a fan who marginally edited her film poster to make it more like the original stage play poster and the actress using this as a vehicle for her woke agenda

 

[SuperAlly]

I always say the same thing....if something is well made and done really well, it doesn't matter if it is "woke". The issue is most woke things choose the wokeism over the quality and it suffers because of it. When you change the race, gender or sexual orientation of a character, because you want diversity, it is woke and usually bad. When you do so because that is the best person for the job, it will be fine. We have directors and writers out here that want to make things "gay" or "diverse" and those projects usually fail--The Marvels, Madame Web, Snow White, The Acolyte, The Sandman, Velma are examples. But when you have organic diversity for quality it succeeds--Dune, Vox Machina, Denzel as The Equalizer, Thor's Heimdall etc.

It also has a lot to do with respecting source material. James Bond is white, straight, and British. Superman is a white Kryptonian. Fictional or not, to just change their race or sexuality just "because", would be cheap and woke. Some people do go overboard calling everything woke. But to act like it isn't an issue is just as egregious and is just driven by agenda.

Very good post

 

[SuperAlly]

The myth of progress is coming off of the tracks. People are starting to realize that secular humanism is a wash. It's a lot bigger than a green black chick.

Gomorrah is hot though

 

[SuperAlly]

100%.

I used to go to the movies all the time and buy AAA video games. I don't do either any more.

The people making those things told me in no uncertain terms that they didn't want me as a customer, so I stopped buying their products.

Simple as that.

However that doesn't mean I have somehow forfeited the right to talk about these things.

Red One is just about the first time I had a tonne of fun at the cinema in years

Sad really that the majority of people given the blank checkbook to make entertainment these days aren't primarily interested in creating entertainment

 

[SuperAlly]

I grew up in a suburban hood. You know who black kids idolized? Bruce Lee and Kung Fu masters. When I went to the movies with my black friends, they didn't care there was no black kid in The Goonies. It was a good movie. If the characters are relatable, their race is irrelevant. I am all for diversity, but not for the SAKE of diversity. That is tokenism. Don't race swap...CREATE. Jordan Peele says he isn't interested in telling white stories. Thats fine. As a white dude, I still enjoy his stuff...If John Hughes was making movies today, he shouldn't feel the need to shoehorn diversity in his cast if he draws from an experience that wasn't that diverse. Same goes for Tim Burton.

Your post was good until Jordan Peele the racist reared his ugly head

 

[Deleted member 592570]

Red One is just about the first time I had a tonne of fun at the cinema in years

Sad really that the majority of people given the blank checkbook to make entertainment these days aren't primarily interested in creating entertainment

I know someone who is on two tv shows and I can tell you, a LOT of this stuff is about subsidies. Much like how Tesla is only profitable due to carbon credit scams, a lot of these shows are focused entirely on checking enough boxes to qualify for as many government subsidies as possible.

By subsidizing film and television costs, state and international production incentives have served to generally promote local economic growth and job creation for decades. Tying the financial encouragement of incentives to D&I has the powerful ability of ensuring those created jobs – especially for behind the camera talent – can go to the underrepresented.

The Path to Better Diversity and Inclusion in Hollywood

How production incentives are helping to promote inclusivity

www.ep.com

It's literally state propaganda.

 

[SuperAlly]

People bitch about "wokeness" or "DEI" before the movie even comes out, because it has minorities. If Aliens was to come out today, those same people would be bitching about Ripley being woke, cause she's a female protagonist in an action role.

Never go full retard

 

[SuperAlly]

No they wouldn't most people aren't as stupid as you guys. Those are two of the greatest movies of all time, the movies that people are complaining about are forgettable trash having no redeeming qualities other than a woke agenda, which its selft is only a redeeming quality for a small minority. If these current movies actually put in the effort to make an original engaging story, you can put in whoever you want in the movie and it wont be an issue just like it wasn't an issue back then.

They are a pair of retards

The fact that there are tonnes of great movies with female leads loved by the people who hate woke crap is evidence against their ridiculous points. Not evidence for it. The fact those movies are so well liked and those characters by people they say would hate them shows how dumb they are.

They are literally highlighting the evidence that disproves their argument

Ass clowns

 

[SuperAlly]

There was a lot of griping about Prey in the Mayberry if I recall, ahead of release.

It was a pretty average movie that go over praised.

I wonder why...

 

[SuperAlly]

Lol bullshit they wouldn't.

They cry about a trailer for a video game because it features a female, without any indication of the quality of the game.

The only reason they haven't cried about Aliens is because the movie was already established for decades as being really good before this latest influx of insecure right wing online fail-male anti-woke losers. They are now crying because of a real life story of black women during WW2. Could be a fantastic show, but theyve already decided that it's DEI/woke

More impassioned mental ramblings from the "you care too much crowd"

Lol

 

[SuperAlly]

So your example of the left doing the equivalent of the schizo apes of the right flinging their poo around every time a movie or a game features a non white male character is... there being a DEI consultation company?

Remember people, don't get overly upset about things that don't impact your life at all