Imagine if it was done the other way, a show was marketed on being feminist but was actually a scathing attack on all of the average woman's flaws and beliefs.
It would have no one watching it, period. Can't even get people to be upset that they were lied to, because the consumers never had hope for it anyway, and the cultists don't actually consume.
Yeah these kinds of series are flags for people to wave in the culture war, not actually enjoy. Just like a flag, you use it to denote your own territory.
Imagine if it was done the other way, a show was marketed on being feminist but was actually a scathing attack on all of the average woman's flaws and beliefs.
It would have no one watching it, period. Can't even get people to be upset that they were lied to, because the consumers never had hope for it anyway, and the cultists don't actually consume.
Yeah these kinds of series are flags for people to wave in the culture war, not actually enjoy. Just like a flag, you use it to denote your own territory.