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"
Its something that has been pointed out by ClownfishTV (who have been on top of a lot of these sort of issues as people who used to work in the industry). They have been saying for years now: A lot of the writing 'Talent' in the US at the moment is using the media they make as as their own personal therapy session broadcasted to the world, and then its designed to appeal to their friends in media and in a handful of extremely progressive cities on the West Coast.
To prove this, Kneon showed one time, when talking about US made Comics, the sales numbers he had. They were abysmal, sub-200,000 for even the best performing ones. Then you look at where its selling...and its all Portland or San Francisco. Sales outside those two places were even more apocalyptic. So they THINK its what people want because it sells in their own back yard....and then they are surprised when they see all the hate. After all, all of their friends like it.
And then the writers are all of the same way, and a lot of them have unresolved issues that they deliberately write into their works. Why do you think so many female characters have "daddy issues"? Why do you think they are treated like the best people ever when they would be considered freaks by the average person? Why do so many of their stories focus on effectively reliving high school and doing it better (usually with a prom episode)?
And then they managed, with their friends in Marketing and PR (who were some of the first to be SJWs, along with HR), to convince CEO's that this is what people want. And that while you will have lots of anger and maybe lose money as people leave, eventually you will get a bigger audience to replace them.
But now, that money is starting to run out. The excuses are starting to run out. There is nothing left in the tank, which means they need to cut quality, which is just creating a negative feedback loop. And the Venture Capital money is running out (same problem a lot of the Journos are having), and now the CEOs are finally starting to wise up and go "You said there would be money by now. Where? Is? My?! MONEY?!" And most of them dont have an answer. So now a lot of companies are starting to see about creating their own Anime to ride the tide, but a lot of the Anime companies are already sending them letters saying "Fuck Off" after they got burned with a few deals and shows, so they may have problems.
Its been a long road, but it seems we are reaching the end of the "Go Broke" arc for a lot of these Entertainment companies.
To be fair, this is a valid question when dealing with real life females too. You can't talk to a single one without uncovering something daddy related.
It's clownish:
Either "Daddy Issues" is a straw-man argument for something else (promiscuity issues) or these women are simply brats who need a real husband to tame them.
Sometimes they're just whores, sometimes they're just mentally children that never grew up (mentally, I mean) because they never faced consequences for their bad decisions.
And sometimes they're butthurt that they were raised well and are trying to rebel.
Sometimes they didn't have dads so they turn into whores.
Personally, I've always thought of it as a defect in women's emotional state that our current culture is unable to properly satisfy/control. Likely because they aren't traded from dad to husband like property anymore.
It is always funny though that complete lack of dad or too good of dad ends up with the same slutty beast of a woman who can barely function in reality. One just cries a little more, but the result otherwise is the same.