An extremely succinct summary of why modern writers cannot write good female protegonists
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I'm not sure I see things so bleakly.
Culture warriors from both sides are starting to impinge upon the centre at this point. We, honestly, come across as weird. They come across as crazy and spiteful, and every time they take the mask off - as they increasingly have to, being in normie circles - they drive people away in disgust. I suspect this is partly due to their sheer inability to bide their time. Zealous fervour and patience do not mix well.
I suspect, if anything, we'll see a backlash against us and them at the same time.
I disagree with you on the first part. The idea of “progressivism” is so powerful in normies that many of them aren’t really driven away from leftism. It’s like the Ryan Long basketball sketch (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mK3xRUbnBUw), the guy on the left was a complete asshole, yet the entire group (except for the guy “right”) still preferred to be on the left’s team and tried to work with the left specifically to avoid having to be on the right’s team. No matter how unreasonable the left becomes, the normies will choose the left. Normies are willing to accept a lot of bullshit from the left, and are very impatient of those who can no longer take the bullshit. That’s why normies say that anti-SJWs are “just as bad as SJWs,” because they don’t like it when people question the institutions (which is completely dominated by the left).
I think you're confusing the online "based centrists" with the general public. For the most part they either don't give a toss about woke stuff, or are actively hostile. Unfortunately a minority of hundreds of millions is still millions, and when they work together that minority can achieve a lot.
There will be a backlash against the woke or the woke will just continue to destroy everything.
A scenario where there is a backlash against the woke and a backlash against those fighting back the woke at the same time is just not feasible.