What is wrong with having a show that appeals to boys/men, or having a strong male hero?
Thankfully I cancelled Netflix over a year ago, but of course I heard about the bait and switch which is pretty commonplace now. The shill websites are doing the usual fan attacks as well as praising the "stunning and brave" direction. One even called it a "radical reimaging". Netflix obviously should've just openly stated that it would be a show about Teela but they know there wouldn't be an audience for it (outside of the sycophants in media). They knew that people who grew up watching He-Man would want a show about He-Man. Although I would rather market to them because they would most likely have kids and buy merchandise, but it makes much more sense to market to blue haired feminists on twitter.
You would think what has happened with comic books over the last 7 years would wake some people up.
I'm glad Anime and Manga are doing well and I hope that Japan never bends the knee. I recently bought some Conan comic books and novels, as well as the complete Robert Howard collection. I know Netflix is doing a Conan show, but I am pretty sure he will be upstaged or he will learn everything from women.
But I will close with my question from above. What is wrong with having entertainment that appeals to boys/men? Or as Yellowflash put it "nothing wrong with having something that appeals to women/girls but why is it that something that generally appeals to men have to appeal to everybody"
Just yesterday I was watching one of my favorite movies of all time, Reign of Fire, and I was reminded that it might be also one of the best depictions of men and manhood of all time.
Sure on the surface its a movie about dragons and the end of the world. But you get to see the struggles of fatherhood vs duty to one's people, where watching his kids starve drives a man to harvest early and lose seeds for future farming. The burden of leadership in general. The head to head of masculinity types, where the empathetic father struggles against the blood knight for what's the right choice, between surviving and waiting them out versus losing a lot of people trying to end the war. Manly men doing manly things for an entire movie, plus dragons.
I think that's why a movie that really fails to deliver on the spectacle of "killing dragons" has stuck with me for all these years. Its kinda like 300 in that once its over, you feel your testosterone boiling and the desire to be a man again though in a much more introspective sense.
It also predicted Leftist mindset way back in 2002:
Or maybe I just really love the movie and want to wildly rant about it.