Recently I saw the criticism of "you guys call anything with a female or minority woke", and I foolishly engaged this person in an argument. This person was in their late teens (yes I know it was stupid to bother but I thought I could make him see he was wrong). He just stopped responding to me when I pointed out that there are plenty of female/minority characters that were liked across the board but now we live in a time where we are told that we have to like garbage movies or shows or we are bad poeple.
Honestly to me Woke means endless race/gender swaps, overhyping something because it was written or directed by a female/minority, and the ridiculous overrepresentation of lgbt.
My question is, is it even worth trying to fight against all this or just do like I do and mainly watch or read stuff from 2014 and prior? I follow certain youtubers and if they recommend a new show I'll check it out, but I do wonder what purpose it serves to go after DC, Disney, Star Trek, etc since they have shown that they hate us. One of my favorite nerd rants last year was when Eric July was pissed about the lady who was in charge of the Scarlet Witch show because she said she never read comic books and didn't know who Mephisto was. Stuff like this just pisses me off because if we suggest that maybe she do some research into the lore behind her show we are sexists.
So is it worth it to keep fighting?
Minimum standards in entertainment are not something you can browbeat into people and there's nothing you can do about how propagandised and shitty all western entertainment has become, other than not give it any money or attention. The furthest I'll go with people is to be vocally scathing of any wokeshit show I've been duped into trying in the past few years, although examples of those are getting scarcer since I've just given up trying anything new. It's all shit.
The western world is too dependent on America for its entertainment (as well as all its political cues), so until America sorts out the intersectional feminist psychosis it's been riddled with for the past decade, you will have to dredge the archives for older media to enjoy. But there's plenty there.