People are responding about recency bias commanding women's preferences, but I think that's wrong. Men want a New Thing to be excited about just as much as women, they just no longer have it because the entertainment industry has stopped providing it - in the case of Hollywood they've stopped entirely and in gaming, almost entirely.
'Men=Mars, Women=Venus' is just the surface level takeaway from this. I think what it shows is the danger of ceding ground in the culture war because of some perception that the medium is beneath you. Subversives don't see any medium as beneath their attention for propaganda insertion. Yet on the right you sometimes get the kind of ideological advice which emphasises real world pragmatism at the expense of any pursuit of the imagination.
Books? stick with non-fiction, educate yourself or get some self-improvement done
Games? those are toys bro, how old are you
movies? shit will rot your brain, maybe watch an oldie now and then
We should celebrate the possibilities of fiction and imaginative pursuits or else this is what we get.
In the end we get this landscape where it's seen as entirely acceptable that men have no option if they want to indulge their imagination, except to watch propagandistic slop for women and children or else delve 60 years into the past. Most men, out of convenience, are not going to do that, so they opt for the slop - because everyone wants to be told a story sooner or later - and if something is merely 50% propaganda rather than 100%, they end up swallowing it down and celebrating the fact that they weren't totally poisoned just now. I think that contributes massively to how the overton window shifts. Concepts of honour, heroism, justice, loyalty, tradition, etc. are a completely forgotten currency, because we're left with no modern vector to hear about them. Incidentally I think this is also how Ghost of Tsushima slipped under the radar and won praise from men despite shitting all over those values, because 'slashy samurai man cool' and 'well you gotta play something'.
'You gotta play/read/watch something' is true and it's always going to win as an impulse, over sentiments like 'why aren't you lifting weights and learning about crop rotation in preparation for the ethnostate, brother?'
People are responding about recency bias commanding women's preferences, but I think that's wrong. Men want a New Thing to be excited about just as much as women, they just no longer have it because the entertainment industry has stopped providing it - in the case of Hollywood they've stopped entirely and in gaming, almost entirely.
'Men=Mars, Women=Venus' is just the surface level takeaway from this. I think what it shows is the danger of ceding ground in the culture war because of some perception that the medium is beneath you. Subversives don't see any medium as beneath their attention for propaganda insertion. Yet on the right you sometimes get the kind of ideological advice which emphasises real world pragmatism at the expense of any pursuit of the imagination.
We should celebrate the possibilities of fiction and imaginative pursuits or else this is what we get.
In the end we get this landscape where it's seen as entirely acceptable that men have no option if they want to indulge their imagination, except to watch propagandistic slop for women and children or else delve 60 years into the past. Most men, out of convenience, are not going to do that, so they opt for the slop - because everyone wants to be told a story sooner or later - and if something is merely 50% propaganda rather than 100%, they end up swallowing it down and celebrating the fact that they weren't totally poisoned just now. I think that contributes massively to how the overton window shifts. Concepts of honour, heroism, justice, loyalty, tradition, etc. are a completely forgotten currency, because we're left with no modern vector to hear about them. Incidentally I think this is also how Ghost of Tsushima slipped under the radar and won praise from men despite shitting all over those values, because 'slashy samurai man cool' and 'well you gotta play something'.
'You gotta play/read/watch something' is true and it's always going to win as an impulse, over sentiments like 'why aren't you lifting weights and learning about crop rotation in preparation for the ethnostate, brother?'