Stuff like Tolkien or C.S. Lewis are obvious, but other authors, movies, music, or entertainment might not be as well known.
So, how about a thread that lists some recommendations for things untouched by modern insanity?
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I'm re-watching Cheers at the moment. If it came out now it would be considered deeply misogynistic and racist. The main thing that Cheers highlights for me is how we went wrong along the way. Dianne, the annoying, liberal, feminist; who's constantly wrong about her opinions, yet never learns from them, is a figure of mockery for everyone in the bar. Not one person takes her seriously, she's constantly ridiculed. Somewhere between now and then people decide to take the Dianne's of the world seriously, and gave them power, leading to society producing many women like her. That decision is one of the many reasons that we are where we are, and that is something which must be remembered is we ever manage to reverse the situation, as it is a mistake that should not be repeated.
Same thing with simpsons. Lisa was obviously insincere in her "activisim" and only wanted attention and aggrandization for herself so she was the butt of a lot of jokes, but in a good natured way. But somewhere along the way that flipped to "lisa is always right".
This is still the highlight of the Simpson’s previous ability to shove Lisa’s BS right back in her face:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fnRt_JEoBRU
The comments to that video are full of quoting Knuckles' feminism potshot at Amy.
Sadly undermined by Knuckles' claim to be a feminist, as if feminism and its obsession with making everything involving an individual woman something that somehow impacts ALL WOMEN isn't the very ideology he's arguing against.
I can't decide if the writers were trying to steal the rational ground and claim it for feminism, or if they were scared and felt that if they didn't have him declare himself a feminst, they'd run the risk of being accused of 'anti-feminism'.