I was looking at Bounding into Comics and there was an article about how Christopher Eccelson was saying that Dr. Who needed more women and that it was a bit of a "boys club". Of course the interviewer didn't ask him why he came to this conclusion after making his money. Someone in the comments asked something I've been asking for the last few years, which was "what is wrong with guys having something that they like?"
Although with Dr. Who, there were female fans going back to the beginning and they were never clamoring for a female doctor. If the show actually wanted to make money they would've just spun off a female time lord or something. This kind of reminds me of James Bond with the whole "men want to be him and women want to be with him", but now they seem to be ruining that character.
This is why I am very skeptical about any female fans or minority fans who can't shut up about representation. I mean just look in the gaming world with that Anita (can't remember her last name) or Zoe Quinn. I never thought that the gaming industry would succumb to this nonsense and it disgusts me when I see all these major comic con events with panels about females or something about racism.
If you are a true fan of something then you won't let the fact that you may not be "represented" stop you. I'm a black guy and was born in 1980. I remember when I first started buying comic books as a kid. Most of the people there were white guys but we bonded over comics. I didn't care about the demographics of the hobby. Same goes for sci-fi books, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. That is why I firmly believe that if you are obsessed with diversity/representation then something is wrong with you. It is the height of arrogance to enter a hobby and then immediately demand that everything has to be about you. Of course the shill media will print endless articles about how evil white male nerds are or how evil star wars fans who don't like the sequel trilogy are. Although the funniest ones are how evil gamers are. Most nerds thought it was awesome if a woman showed interest in that stuff. I'm single now and I joke sometimes that if I went on a date and my date said that playing Skyrim is one of her passions I would propose on the spot.
I'm Korean by blood but American born. Tons of the media I enjoyed as a kid and through the 2000's were all so-called "white" media. Also known as THE MEDIA OF THE DOMINANT CULTURE/RACE.
While I was watching GI Joe in the 90s never did I think "I SURE WISH THERE WAS AN ASIAN GUY ON THE TEAM" or something retarded like that. I was thinking "damn, those GI Joe guys are cool, I want to be badass like them!". Bitching about being a minority when the dominant culture are disparate groups of white people that came from different parts of Europe with predominantly different subcultures themselves is fucking stupid. I don't see myself as a "lump" of Asian people. The Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese in the East hate each other.
I can imagine many of the tribes in Africa hate each other as well, and don't forget the sectarian violence in the Middle East.
It drives me nuts that wanting people to stop fucking changing things because they think they need to appeal to me is now considered a CONSERVATIVE opinion.
Just make good shit, stop changing shit, stop touching my shit. I just want to play VIDEO GAMES MAN.
Amen brother. You make a great point. America is majority white so I’d expect that most entertainment has white people. If I lived in Japan I’d expect to see a mostly Japanese people on tv.
Whenever I hear these people I just want to tell them to find something else to watch and stop trying to ruin a show/movie franchise that a lot of people enjoy.