This topic came up when I was talking to my brother recently. He has three girls and they just finished watching the Obi-Wan show and my brother said that show was such a blatant example of pushing girl power where it made no sense and it clearly showed the writers didn't know or didn't care about Star Wars. Now my brother likes Andor and Mandalorian so he isn't at my level where I cancelled Disney plus and truly despise disney Star Wars, but around his girls I remain positive since I don't want to ruin their fun because the sequels were the first Star Wars they were exposed to and then they watched the rest. I am thinking for Christmas I may buy some EU books for his daughters to get them into that timeline.
But he was just frustrated at the endless push to get women into things that generally appeal to men and he said men and women generally like different things. It's just that simple.
I would love to be at one of the panels at a Con where someone like Anita Sarkessian or the Star Wars, RIngs of Power, Wheel of Time writers give their usual speech about not seeing many women, people of color, etc. and simply ask them why they don't understand that certain thing appeal to more guys than women or that there were always women/minorities that were into these hobbies but they think something is wrong if a large number of white guys enjoy something.
Anyway, do you see this trend waning? I'd like to think so but even with constant flops nothing changes. I really miss the days of being laughed at for reading comic books or a sci-fi novel because the worthless activists in charge of the shows or the ones winning the Hugos or Nebulas were most likely the very people who mocked nerds or thought gamers were losers until they saw those things being trendy and jumped on board.
They understand. They simply don't care, because it's not convenient. Anita Sarkeesian's grift would have nowhere to go if she admitted that men and women, generally, have different interests.
Will the trend wane? Of course. The laws of nature have a way of reasserting themselves. You can only lose so much on nonsense. It takes constant effort to pretend that men and women are no different, which is why this will fail - but don't think it will fail soon enough to save your favorite franchise.
Like Sowell said, the good thing about companies vs. the government is that bankruptcy eventually prevents the former from throwing good money after bad.
This mindset is actually quite flawed. What does it matter that communism is doomed to failure if it still manages to preside over the majority of your days on this earth? Leftist systems inevitably collapse, sure, but you can still spend decades suffering under them. And guess what else is inevitable? Someone is going to try leftism again, and probably sooner than you think.
My point is this: as a mortal species, we should measure the success of systems based on how many years of your life are dominated by those systems. Leftism can’t be called a failed ideology if it oppressed you for thirty shitty years, takes a five year break, and then comes back to fuck up the second half of your life. That’s a successful campaign.
You could be a billionaire if you became a contractor whom people could hire to ruin the days of their enemies.