I don't think so. There are few female writers whose stuff I like and who write good characters in books.
What you see is imho more of a product of them being shit writers, because they get their positions not due to merit, but due to being women. And no one is willing to challenge their writings / ideas. Women would not "backstab" each other like that (they reinforce the "Yeah, girl power!" narrative) and any man who dares to challenge a female writer has been fired years ago.
Of course it's going to be woke garbage. And it will fail. People want to play LotR for LotR.
If they want to do a "fresh take" on anything - why not create your own world & setting and not call it LotR? We all know the answer to that.
It's almost as if Elon didn't do things that much differently.
No. It just says that the study the Post is using is shit. There is no study that shows that antisemitism increased / decreased / didn't change. You cannot assume the opposite of the Post just cause it fits your beliefs more.
Movies / series which target women follow the same logic. And they are influencial as fuck. Keep in mind though that this is moving away from the "gaze" as in seeing and moves into the "gaze" as how a man behaves in the media - in a way that women (who the char was written for) find attractive.
You can drop Cavill wanting to have less sex scenes / nude scenes in Witcher and how media (mainly female writers) shit on him for that.
I was a 90s colorblind kid
Worf and La Forge were (besides Data) my favourite characters in TNG. Worf was the strong and honorable warrior and La Forge the genius science guy (with basically glasses). Those things appealed to me, I didn't care at all that they were black.
But as you said - little me apparently was racist for that.
but it seems like even if you felt that way, it would be fine to wave your flag in a friendly competition among nationally-representative groups/people where all the others were waving THEIR flags.
And this is where you are wrong. It would seem that way to a normal person. And many Germans also do see it that way.
But a certain loud group of people doesn't see it like that. It's the same for big sports events (read: Euro or world cup in football). People have flags at their windows & cars. And a certain group complains about those flags.
You probably heard about the glorious actions of our team in the last WC - many people hated them and were mocking the team.
Actions like this are just disrespectful to our country. But what do you expect from such degenerates.
Using a machine learning approach to crunch through the data, the researchers grouped patients based on their condition and the amount of time they spent in intensive care.
Into the trash it goes.
Short reminder that doctors used ML to detect the severity of COVID cases from x-ray images. All the algo learned was people standing/lying - cause the severe cases in the training set were on a bed, while the healthier ones were capable of standing.
There are many more stories about docs fucking up ML stuff.
Certainly better than anything out of Germany
Hey, don't you diss my Lord of the Lost like that! Their entry for eurovision is shit though.
And there is a beauty bias and a height bias (for men) in the workforce.
Don't cry about it, accept it, cause nothing will change other people's perception. And then change the things that you can change - like losing weight.
German doesn't have different words for "gender" and "sex". It's always "Geschlecht" (and you would translate either of the English words to it a few years ago). So you couldn't even say something like "A woman is when the gender and the sex of a person is female" in German.
Of course the mentally ill now started talking about "biologisches Geschlecht" (biologic - if referring to sex) and/or just use the word "gender" in German.
The transporter helping with aging dna shit is also used when Picard & co are reduced to children when the Ferengis take over the Enterprise.
That said - while I haven't watched any Picard after S1 - going Borg is utterly shit. There is a TNG episode though that deals with activating some hidden DNA shit (Barcley turns into a spider, Worf in an old Klingon being, ...).
I would say I have 2-3 vegetarian (some are vegan) days a week (1 fish, others include meat).
As you said Indian food (biryani, aloo gobi, ...) can be vegetarian. A greek salad with kritharaki & beans. A simple pasta with a vegetarian pesto. Just some vegs (with oil & herbs) in the oven and serve some dips (tzatziki, yoghurt & mint based stuff, ...).
I do try those meat alternatives occasionally (maybe 1-2 times a year). They are always shit and texture & taste is nowhere near real meat. And I often throw it away, because it's just disgusting.
Most likely it flopped super hard (who would've thought...).
And it being available ("For every month it's available on D+ you get $x" contracts) costs them more money than its worth.