Went to the movies for the first time in years recently, and was annoyed but not at all surprised about how almost EVERY PREVIEW of upcoming films was about a black woman being scared of or fighting against white men. The exceptions being Black Adam, though they had to throw in a joke about rolling up windows when he shows up, so the implication is clear, and Dungeons and Dragons, where the white man is a useless clown who one of the female characters straight up says doesnt belong in the party. Its madness how blatant it is. If normies dont start waking up to this shit now, they never will.
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As for normies, I once thought as you but when I see the box office for latest marvel movies, Star Trek/Star Wars convention crowds, and the fact that people are actually excited about WOT season two and LOTR I have little hope
I will say that I question your circle of normies then. Because most of the normies I talk with hate what they are doing with LOTR (and much like the Star Wars sequels, refuse to acknowledge anything past the Jackson movies), think modern Marvel is boring, and are generally not thrilled with modern media and are retreating back to older stuff or Anime. Even my fiancé, who is the very definite of Kurt Schlicters "Militant Normal" sees a lot of the same trends we see and hates the SJW's (she just thinks that our side gets a stick up their ass too easy).
I meant from what I see in those Star Wars celebration videos and stuff. Most people I know don’t like what has become of Star Wars. A lot of my comic book collecting friends stopped getting subs. But I think I may give too much weight to the fawning praise you see of every “reimagining” you see come out
I would say you are. The sort of people who go to those sort of events are the absolute minority of the most hardcore fans. And it doesnt take a huge audience to fill out something like that, so you can make it look bigger than it actually is. Meanwhile, most people are going for other things.
After all, at the same time Comics are struggling to break even (never mind make a profit), you saw Eric July make almost $4M in a month on a completely new IP and nothing but word of mouth.
I am far more confident that the Normie tide is on our side....assuming we dont go off and become a bunch of puritanical prudes in response ourselves. Because I have already seen some starting to get queasy at the creeping re-emergence of Christian fundamentalism taking place on the right-ward wing at the moment.
Yea I ordered my copy of Eric’s comic book. I’m a pretty traditional Christian but you cant force your views on people. It’s best to let people approach you about certain topics. I hope you are right though. If we can get the people who automatically watch any Star Wars, marvel, etc to stop doing that it would be great. Also Hollywood has to have received the message that an obsession with diversity ruins entertainment
I’ve seen 2 people I know in real life excited for LoTR. One is the type easily impressed by bad cgi. So he’s the perfect mark for the show. The other has built his whole personality about liking “nerd stuff.” The type of person who can not understand how anyone could dislike anything marvel after infinity war, or any Disney Star Wars.