Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 7, 2024, 17:35:
Regardless of their persuasion, no one likes having an ideology, any ideology, shoved in their face and that is exactly what happens when you make "representation" a selling point. Do it naturally and do it in a way that makes sense to the overall universe your entertainment is presenting. Then it becomes part of the universe.
Sure they do, so long as its their ideology. The problem is we now live in an age where people
feel they have the right to be outraged over the slightest thing - and I do mean slight. South Park nailed it so long ago with the angry mob yelling "Robble! Robble! Robble!" over the most inconsequential shit. So when something comes along that's actually, really political, people are going to be apoplectic. Used to be you'd just take your ball and go home and sulk. Now everyone wants everyone else to know of the stinging injustice they've so obviously suffered and be compensated for it somehow. This is where woke got us. It's all participation medal bullshit. That's the problem when you do away with the meritocracy and we're repeatedly told what unique special little snowflakes we all are. In the end we're all just a pile of cold, wet bullshit that needs to be shoveled away.
"Van Gogh painted alone and in despair and in madness and sold one picture in his entire life. Millions struggled alone, unrecognized, and struggled as heroically as any famous hero. Was it worthless? I knew it wasn't."