Since I work from home most of the time that gives me a lot of time to listen to youtube and podcasts. I was listening to a podcast with Nerdrotic and Chris Gore from film threat and Chris Gore was talking about his experience in film writing and he mentioned that studios are driven by market forces and that is why he is so confused as to why there is this continuous push to put women into programming that generally appeals to guys when you don't see the reverse (i.e. you don't see publishers of romance novels worried about how many men are reading them).
They then brought up that stupid poll they use to "show" that women make up 50% of comic book readers which all that shows is that there are a lot of men and women who think that watching an MCU movie or wearing a Spider-Man shirt makes them a comic book reader.
I know that it is agenda based, but at some point you should realize that catering to pre-teen girls or teenage girls is idiotic. Women who were into comic books already didn't need to be pandered to. Also, I wonder if the execs at Disney Marvel have ever been inside of a comic book store. I remember when I stopped buying new comic books during the All New all Different marvel and couldn't believe when Disney decided to focus on these characters that couldn't sell comic books. I figured they would do anything they could to push America Chavez because she checks all the boxes despite failing to sell books. I guess I'm just still surprised.
Do you think at some point these companies can just accept that certain entertainment appeals to guys and certain entertainment appeals to women?
These companies are quite large so parts of them probably will. Overall, from the top down, I don't think they will concede that point any time soon, though. Wokeness is basically a religious belief in a dualist, immaterial conception of the self that is thrown into the universe. The idea that nature and biology affect the self is heresy in this religion so they will be extremely reluctant to concede essentialist differences between men and women.
I have some of the Boys comic books and while I enjoy them I am tired of the super hero deconstruction. I was going to watch the show but then I heard the showrunner going on and on about white privilege and Trump. I also heard they changed things from the comic to make women look better. I’ve been reading classic Spider-Man and Superman conics lately for something more positive.
I suspect, just like in other industries, it's all about ESG scores or something similar.
The audience is no longer, well, the audience. That's a fringe benefit. They just want their loans and investments, and they have to be woke to do it. That's just a guess though.
No they do not accept this. They are operating from a frame that the distribution of all these groups ought to be the same. And if it isn't then there is still work to be done to make it so.
Reality doesn't matter: they are operating from an ideological frame, and if reality doesn't conform to their ideology than it is reality which must yield to their ideology.
In other words: you are the atheist standing up in the middle of church and declaring "there is no god". If you did this, what would you expect to happen?
I think if you're listening to youtube and podcasts, your attention is not on your work. You're working from home, not pretending to work from home. Listen to podcasts on your own time, wageslave!
Well my job is fairly repetitive so I listen while going over spreadsheets. Not all the time.
No, they want everyone to consume their product, why only cater for half the market when you can have the whole pie? if they have to destroy everything to create an abomination for years until the newer generations only know that... "Then perish" said a Disney executive or something.