You know when the APA tried to publish guidance for therapists to help them better reach male clients and break through these barriers of men being expected to "man up" the reactionaries screamed at them and called them misandrists. Efforts to improve this are resisted by reactionaries.

Who gives a shit about reactionaries?

The duty is to the patient not to the online idiots.

Measurably and provably, therapists/counselors/mental health clinicians have been underserving men according to their own studies. If anyone should be able to handle misplaced anger from third parties it should be mental health specialists. So incredibly frustrating.

In that comment we have one example of this happening. The star wars sequels are an example of thinking up new female heroes.

I think it's gotten better? Ghost Busters: Afterlife (the movie following the 2016 one) also went back to their original cast and instead introduced Phoebe as a new protagonist.

I was noticing it most strongly with Disney. Not sure what was their strategy there, but for some period in the last few years, they seemed to go mechanically through their IP catalog and produce a life action reboot for each classic. The reboots were mostly unremarkable IMO, but they had a strange recurring pattern: Almost every one of them included one controversial change to the original setup that was guaranteed to rile up certain fans and cause drama, ostensibly in the name of DEI.

It became such a predictable occurrence that I'm honestly not sure if they really felt the need to "modernize" their classics, or if they were deliberately causing those controversies as a promotion tactic.

IMHO were cashing in on the ridiculous culture war - drama guarantees clicks -> free marketing -> more revenue.

The reboots are utter garbage even if you disregard the woke1.0 updates

Btw Disney has always been garbage and always will be. If we use that as the measuring stick for culture idk

Disney's Quality has been downhill since Pinocchio, that being said, I'm not expecting Jorge Borgesian tier quality of prose, introspection and self-awareness within the plot. I'm expecting it to be enjoyable popcorn flicks.

But i'm getting terrible movies that also preach massively. Even without the preaching, it's terrible, but preaching certainly makes it even worse than what it was due to the immense hypocrisy of a gigantic corporation asking us to do better while it absolutely does worse daily.

Surely if this is indeed a good chunk of western media you would need to reach for an example from a decade ago.

Are people saying "that's too bad?" Or are they frustrated to see endless criticism of this argument when it is applied to other groups over the past five years while this topic continues to get litigated.

I support grants for authors to create a wider variety of literature. Too bad the NEA and NEH have been slashed to ribbons.

Now lets see the atlantic write endless articles advocating for greater representation of women, racial minorities, lgbt people, and disabled people in media where they are underrepresented.

Did you miss, like, the last decade??

The atlantic specifically has been beating this "woke has gone too far" drum for years.

But even this doesn't make sense. Nobody has a problem with pears being on top of a neapolitan pizza.

Congress can subpoena people.

Trump would give all of them executive priviledge

Trump's victory in 2024 wasn't flagged.

"almost" was an important word in my comment. But yes, sometimes (as in not always) they don't get flagged or the mods remove flagging.

There are plenty more examples than this. Trump's assassination attempt and Kirk's murder also stuck around.

Nor was his assassination attempt.

There are so many other explanations.

Maybe this person is working in a different domain where these tools work less well. Maybe this person is a particular kind of expert where they detect incorrect or suboptimal output that would be difficult for others to detect. Maybe the mechanism they use to evaluate the output is different than what other people use.