Since I buy comic books (dollar bin/back issues) I have them stacked and don't put them in a long box til I read them. Currently have about 300 to read. Today I was reading a Spectacular Spider-Man (in my opinion the most underrated comic book series ever and the first Spider-Man series I ever read) from 1977 and in the section where Stan Lee has his soapbox he was hyping an upcoming special comic book highlighting the female super-heroes of Marvel and he listed some of the big names that would be included in the comic.
Stuff like this along with the 80s/90s ads showing a group of boys along with one or two girls playing video games always annoy me because there seemed to be a modern day script where any female/minority in the gaming, comic book, or any other nerdy IP says that when they were growing up they didn't see anyone who looked like them or didn't feel "welcome" and they act like women/minorities have never been in anything until woke Hollywood came along. I call BS on that every time because while you may have someone be rude to you, 99 times out of 100 if you know your stuff or show a genuine interest in something nerds will welcome you with open arms. The vitriol over men (especially white men) enjoying a hobby is off the charts in the last decade especially.
Ironically a comic book company, gaming company, or any studio today would never hire a woman or a minority who actually is interested in the material. They would rather hire people who can't shut up about diversity.
I learned Spanish in high school and I went to a Summer Camp before senior year where you had to speak Spanish 24/7 and were kicked out if you were heard speaking English. As an adult I've had some jobs where I had to speak Spanish all or most of the time and on the way to becoming fluent I started listening to the music. One time I went to a spanish music store (was working in a heavy hispanic area) and the owner told me that there wasn't anything there I would like. I spoke to him in Spanish and explained I liked the music and he immediately started showing me what he had and what was on sale and I bought quite a few cds that day. Nobody in the store "looked like me" but that didn't stop me.
Man I feel this post, especially the 80's and 90's ad part.
I've been watching some of the old movies from that time lately (movies that I saw as a kid), and you can definitly see the "proto woke" horseshit in quite a bit of the advertisements, TV shows, and movies from that era.
I can't really speak on comic books (never really was my jam), but look at the difference in Star Trek TOS versus Star Trek TNG (especially any of the Troi centric episodes, BLECH!). Not even going to get into STD or the other new show.
But yeah, these companies had better hope the ESG funds don't run out any time soon, as they are already creativly bankrupt and are going to run out of any remaining fan goodwill before too long.
I grew up in the same era. I haven’t seen any Nu Trek but it does suck how the TNG actors have lashed out at fans to support the crap being made now. In the past I’d be fine with a racism is bad message here and there or whatever message the “very special episode” had but now they define racism as something only white ppl are capable of and anything so many shows today push the ESG crap so like you I enjoy 80s and 90s movies.
100% agreed. If I get to those episodes in something I'm watching now, I just skip them. Don't care if it's a full-on "black people used to be discriminated against" like in DS9, or something more subtle with alien stand-ins -- not interested.
I was re-watching Curb Your Enthusiasm a while back and got maybe 2 seasons in when Larry David at one point is apologizing to some black people and says, "white people should apologize forever." Turned it off and didn't look back. Probably won't ever watch it again, and I was a huge fan of Larry David. Just completely soured me on it.
I really hate what these people have done over the last 10 years. The messaging has been around for a long time but now it's just omnipresent, overbearing, patronizing, and frankly, boring.
Yea and then they get mad when people aren’t interested in the 10000th show/movie that “examines race”. I tell people that I use the actual definition of racism and not the modern day wine version. The endless apologies are dumb. Granted I still love stuff like Blazing Saddles but you wouldn’t be able to have such racial humor now or the Richard Pryor/Gene Wilder movies
I've only seen bits and pieces of the new Star Trek shows (not going to subscribe to anything to watch them, and from what I've seen they aren't even worth pirating), the thing that turns me off the most is how they don't even bother respecting established lore.
Yeah it sucks how screwed in the heads some of the ST TNG actors are. (Guess that applies to alot of shows though, like Stargate Sg1.)
I really wish I could permanently banish the grievance mongers to the world/alternate dimension that they want, maybe then we could get some decent media again.
Amen. I liked all trek up to enterprise. After that in my personal head canon there is no more trek. Plenty of Star Trek books to read as well.
Yeah I liked Enterprise and earlier as well (although Voyager was fairly weak, didn't care for it as much).
Used to read some of the Star Trek books, haven't in quite some time.
Still bummed that Prelude to Axanar is dead in the water, something that would have been REALLY cool to see, killed by greed.
Thankfully not as much of a Star Wars fan, they really have a reason to be upset.
Seriously Disney, how do you ruin Star Wars? It's like a license to print money.