I don't think it was mainly because they were female but rather all the boasting about it being female while trashing the fans... The whole angle was about bragging on all the that diversity and telling fans that this is what they need... She set them up for failure...
The way you put it here makes so much sense and I agree with that. Drinker just made it sound almost like women being at the helm was one of the reasons it failed to connect with audiences.
@@OnMyMindEntertainment it failed to connect with the audience because they (writers, producers etc) failed to connect with the franchise, the lore AND the fans/audience.
Diversity isn't a bad thing by any stretch of the imagination. But you can't build entertainment around it. Bad writing and bad acting is just that no matter what you look like or how you identify. One of my favorite actors, Elliot Page, is trans but that's not why I like him so much. His role as Vanya/Victor in Umbrella Academy was nothing short of brilliant and that's all that really mattered.
I think you’re missing the point. You fixated on not having a problem with female lead programs… Neither does the critical drinker. He says as much when he speaks about shows that are actually good and female lead. His problem is when the message takes priority over everything else. When the purpose of a program is pushing a DEI agenda, but not actually telling the story it’s supposed to is the problem. Hiring actors, both male and female that know nothing about a show and did no research once they got the gig is the problem. The showrunner and everyone involved in making the show blaming the fans and calling them racist and sexist because they don’t like the show is a problem. While the act light did fail because the show just made absolutely no sense and it was terrible all these other problems did exist.
The reason why "Gettysburg" was such a great movie was that all the extras in the movie playing Union and Confederate soldiers were real Civil War reenactors who are as obsessive about Civil War trivia as the most die hard Star Wars or Star Trek fanboy. And they were agreeing to appear in this movie -- unpaid, mind you -- only on the condition that the filmmakers kept their film authentic and accurate to the historical events upon which it was based. Star Wars needs to do the same. Hire ACTUAL Star Wars fans, with an encyclopedic knowledge of Star Wars, as technical advisors. (No, not me, I'm a Trek guy.) Sure, write your own script, but run everything by them and take their advisement on it. THEN you will make a excellent Star Wars story that people will pay to watch.
The writing is the main issue with many movies and shows these days ... everyone seems to know how to competently make movies/shows on a technical level (cinematography, sound, music, acting, editing, choreography etc.), but the scripts feel more and more as if they were written by a 5 year old in crayon who doesn't know squat about logic and how people interact with each other. Either this stuff was truly created by AI or there is some serious talent issue in that area. Yes ... writers should be paid more, but only the competent ones! And there need to be people in charge who can tell a good script from a nonsensical trash heap like The Acolyte.
8:10, I think the Critical Drinker is a decent film critic in the same way that I think that Chris Stuckman is a decent film critic. Each one clearly understands and is passionate about cinema but has their reviews (sometimes) adversely affected by their biases and are far too heavily criticized by people with political agendas.
His point was that the show was built entirely around being female-everything, instead of being built around good storytelling that the massive majority actually wanted. Back in the 70s we had blaxploitation. That has now evolved to checkboxploitation.
If this show was sooo good,the modern audience that they assume even watch Star Wars or any other beloved ip's would be huge enough,that our thoughts on the show would count for nothing.And the numbers would've reflected that enthusiasm the same as they were during the first two episodes when we ALL were giving it a chance.
@ericb9252 I watched it.I gave it a chance.I had high hopes for it. But when the plot started going everywhere and it wasn't giving me more time with the characters so that i would care more about their story, I lost interest..Then i only had the irony of white people saying that I am a racist bigot for not watching past the 4th episode..
6:54, Wonder Woman had a female director and it was good (I haven’t seen the sequel.) D.C Fontana wrote some of the best episodes of Star Trek. J.K. Rowling wrote the Harry Potter books and they’re great. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein and it’s rightly considered a classic.
I was happy when I told a woman and two teen girls I was volunteering about this show, explaining the “romance” the twitter and TikTok harpies are sad to loseand what happens and they were disgusted. The woman said she would never let her kids watch such a thing and the girls said they’d never watch Star Wars if that’s what they have going on.
Problem isn’t being female lead etc… but that that takes the play of storytelling and character building which results in not a good finished product. Has anyone played “No One Lives Forever”? The 2002 fps bond-like pc game? Wonder why they never turned that into a movie, it’s a pretty good game👍
People hate on drinker the way they hate on theory, they pretend it’s due to he’s not original or whatever but if those creators supported the message suddenly those same people who hated on them would love them and gush about their creativity.
@OnMyMindEntertainment It's easily one of my all time favorites and I'll buy the Blu-ray steelbook of it like I have with the other Disney+ MCU and Star Wars shows.
Personally I think The Critical Drinker is justified in his criticism of the female presence surrounding this because the bulk of the interviews and promotion for the show focused on this aspect. They made an effort to link their gender and diversity to the show and they would have made the exact opposite argument that the drinker made, if the show had been a success. You can't both go out and declare that it's time women took control of Star Wars and then complain that your gender has nothing to do with it when it doesn't turn out how you hoped. To me, he's simply pointing out the hypocrisy of it.
Yep. That hits the nail on the head. The marketing dictated the discord around the show. Their only selling points were based on identity rather than storytelling. In essence it becomes this weird thing where you are not allowed to dislike it, because the show has women at the helm of every aspect of the show. House of the Dragon also has women at the helm of the show. The 2 leads are women. That show is beloved by the same people that hate The Acolyte. So this whole "bigotry" narrative being spun is just nothing but cope. Somehow they cannot comprehend that not everyone is obsessed with race, gender and sexual orientation. To most people none of that stuff matters.
I think women suck in all things and should be part of nothing and I don’t have to defend that because women are openly misandrist all the time and they never have to defend their bigotry. I owe them nothing. Men can dislike women as much as women have openly and aggressively have hated on men since the dawn of things.
Bad is bad. And I in no way think bad is an issue with gender or that it means that the Disney corporation needs to be burnt to the ground which is one of the reasons why I have issues with the critical drinker and nerdrodic.
Yeah. Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic have some good points but phrases like “M-She-U” just make it seem like they’re most interested in being provocative. (I also think Drinker is too fixated on “Mary Sue”s.)
@@matityaloran9157 yeah I agree with both points. I get the problem with Mary Sue's but it gets to the point where anytime there's a movie where there's a woman as the lead unless she is absolutely useless as a character she's considered a Mary Sue. But you throw a dude in there and it's okay for them to be John wick. There is some hypocrisy there lol.
Like I mentioned the last time this show came up: It has good concepts in there, but they hired exactly 0 writers with the talent to realize those concepts on the screen. That is really all there is to it. That created a lack of viewers and the lack of viewers caused it to be cancelled. I find the conversation around this show to be rather silly. I am not one to be upset about the show, and I am also not one to call anyone who didn't like it "bigots" which seems to be the mantra for anyone liking it. It is really not that deep, it is just a show that underperformed for such a steep price tag.
I'm telling you should check out some videos that review the critical drinkers books. I do not think the videos would be good for you to do a reaction on I don't think they're humorous enough but just for you to get your own taste of what the critical drinker himself can actually write you might affect your opinion of him a bit.
He didn’t say it was bad that it was female lead or written, he said it was poorly lead and written, the people doing that just happened to be female though and they put so much emphasis on it but couldn’t back it up with talent
Female lead is bad. Women getting into stuff is always the harbinger of that thing dying. Women don’t settle they need more and more and it has to be about them. I know the female centric hate that idea but that is very often how women are. They’re immensely ego centric and it suck’s all the guy energy and creativeness that created said thing out. I’d outright ban women and anyone too female centric from the creative process.
I never found CD funny at all & too obsessed w/ wokeness. He'll never hold a candle to pitch meeting, collegehumor, redlettermedia, cinema snob, nostalgia critic, Mr sunday movies, etc etc etc 😊 in my opinion
I don't agree that it failed because of wokeness or bad writing. Star Wars writing has never been all that great. The original trilogy was a simple campy story based loosely on old timey space adventure shows and it wore its camp proudly and it was beautiful In trying to update it for modern audiences, they lost track of what made it fun to watch. People will forgive a lot of bad writing and wokeness if the show is fun Mandalorian season 1 was a campy spaghetti western cowboy show and people loved it because it went back to the roots of Star Wars
You don't seem to know what "camp" means. The original Star Wars trilogy is a genre called Space Opera, but the story was a fairy tale in a scifi setting. Lucas has openly said he was using the Hero's Journey structure from Joseph Campbell's seminal look at ancient myths and folklore: _The Hero with A Thousand Faces._
@@matityaloran9157that’s not at all well put, and oh my goodness is it severely wrong. That’s a stupid person looking at the surface and not getting it.
What you’re saying makes no sense. The concept of the modern audience is based on woke ideas they want to pretend are just how people are now. Modern audience ‘updating’ and woke is the same thing. Wokeness is a cultural cancer and it eats away at all and it’s what creates bad writing. Wokeness is inherent to why it failed as wokeness corrupts and destroys all it touches.
The drinker isn't funny or entertaining these days, he doesn't put much effort into his videos and mostly rehashes his other older videos and jokes, he's becoming a grifter. Anyway love your reactions man, keep going.
A grifter is someone who swindles people. I think Drinker actually believes what he is saying, so I am confused as to how he is swindling people. If we somehow found out that he actually loves the show, but went this route despite that, then I would tend to agree with your statement. Alas, I doubt that is the case at all. Aside from that, it is obviously perfectly fair to not find him entertaining. Different strokes for different folks :)
I HATE THIS. Leslye Headland, the first woman to create a Star Wars series, tapped into something fresh and exciting in the fandom with S1 and while I had my notes she absolutely deserved a second season to let those ideas cook. While I certainly had issues with it, I think it had excellent concepts that I would have liked to have a chance to see refined in a season 2. The petition for Disney to renew is proof that actual SW fans liked The Acolyte, and they should listen to them, not bigots like The Critical Drinker.
There were a couple ideas here that could've worked and would've been nice to see come to fruition in Season 2, but literally only a couple. The things they really focused on in this one didn't make much sense and didn't draw people in the way they were hoping.
@@ericb9252 The viewing numbers do not agree with you. btw it is possible to dislike something without begin a bigot or an -ist or a -phobe. It is entirely possible that a diverse cast and crew does not equal amazing content.
I don't know if he was saying it's bad because it's female led and directed, but rather he's saying "it's bad because it's made by a a specific type of woman. Hardcore feminist with no talent for writing and story telling". maybe it would have been better he said "this type of person", because when you specify things, people can misread it. Like if I were to say "this book is about a stupid [Race] Person", people might think "woah, why are you saying [Race] people are stupid???" when in reality, I'm saying "this specific person is stupid. not because of their race, I was just stating their race". You can replace race with gender or nationality or whatever. I think most "anti woke" content creators have made it clear they're fine with female made and lead content, just not this stuff. Like, they always bring up Alien, Terminator 1 and 2, Arrival, Annihilation, etc etc as been great films with female leads because they don't beat you over the head with ideology. It's there, but it's clever and subtle and not overbearing.
At least The Acolyte gave us a new rating system .......... bad, worse, 💩and acolyte.
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Yeah,I wasn't feeling too good after that..I felt better after i dropped an Osha.
@@SiriuslyBlack7 Cringe
@@ericb9252 fair enough!🤣🤣🤣
I don't think it was mainly because they were female but rather all the boasting about it being female while trashing the fans... The whole angle was about bragging on all the that diversity and telling fans that this is what they need... She set them up for failure...
The way you put it here makes so much sense and I agree with that. Drinker just made it sound almost like women being at the helm was one of the reasons it failed to connect with audiences.
@@OnMyMindEntertainment it failed to connect with the audience because they (writers, producers etc) failed to connect with the franchise, the lore AND the fans/audience.
@@OnMyMindEntertainment Drinker hates women.
@@reignmans The lore doesn't matter
@@ericb9252 your opinion doesn’t matter. You aren’t a Star Wars fan you’re a woke extremist.
Diversity isn't a bad thing by any stretch of the imagination. But you can't build entertainment around it. Bad writing and bad acting is just that no matter what you look like or how you identify. One of my favorite actors, Elliot Page, is trans but that's not why I like him so much. His role as Vanya/Victor in Umbrella Academy was nothing short of brilliant and that's all that really mattered.
I think you’re missing the point. You fixated on not having a problem with female lead programs… Neither does the critical drinker. He says as much when he speaks about shows that are actually good and female lead. His problem is when the message takes priority over everything else. When the purpose of a program is pushing a DEI agenda, but not actually telling the story it’s supposed to is the problem. Hiring actors, both male and female that know nothing about a show and did no research once they got the gig is the problem. The showrunner and everyone involved in making the show blaming the fans and calling them racist and sexist because they don’t like the show is a problem. While the act light did fail because the show just made absolutely no sense and it was terrible all these other problems did exist.
The reason why "Gettysburg" was such a great movie was that all the extras in the movie playing Union and Confederate soldiers were real Civil War reenactors who are as obsessive about Civil War trivia as the most die hard Star Wars or Star Trek fanboy. And they were agreeing to appear in this movie -- unpaid, mind you -- only on the condition that the filmmakers kept their film authentic and accurate to the historical events upon which it was based. Star Wars needs to do the same. Hire ACTUAL Star Wars fans, with an encyclopedic knowledge of Star Wars, as technical advisors. (No, not me, I'm a Trek guy.) Sure, write your own script, but run everything by them and take their advisement on it. THEN you will make a excellent Star Wars story that people will pay to watch.
@benjauron5873 do the same thing for Deep Space 9 and I will play a Jem Hadar Warrior all day!
The writing is the main issue with many movies and shows these days ... everyone seems to know how to competently make movies/shows on a technical level (cinematography, sound, music, acting, editing, choreography etc.), but the scripts feel more and more as if they were written by a 5 year old in crayon who doesn't know squat about logic and how people interact with each other. Either this stuff was truly created by AI or there is some serious talent issue in that area. Yes ... writers should be paid more, but only the competent ones! And there need to be people in charge who can tell a good script from a nonsensical trash heap like The Acolyte.
8:10, I think the Critical Drinker is a decent film critic in the same way that I think that Chris Stuckman is a decent film critic. Each one clearly understands and is passionate about cinema but has their reviews (sometimes) adversely affected by their biases and are far too heavily criticized by people with political agendas.
@@matityaloran9157 Critical Drinker is a bigot.
His point was that the show was built entirely around being female-everything, instead of being built around good storytelling that the massive majority actually wanted.
Back in the 70s we had blaxploitation. That has now evolved to checkboxploitation.
"checkboxploitation"!! Love this because it's so true!!
If this show was sooo good,the modern audience that they assume even watch Star Wars or any other beloved ip's would be huge enough,that our thoughts on the show would count for nothing.And the numbers would've reflected that enthusiasm the same as they were during the first two episodes when we ALL were giving it a chance.
@@SiriuslyBlack7 The people who hated it never watched it.
@ericb9252 I watched it.I gave it a chance.I had high hopes for it. But when the plot started going everywhere and it wasn't giving me more time with the characters so that i would care more about their story, I lost interest..Then i only had the irony of white people saying that I am a racist bigot for not watching past the 4th episode..
@@SiriuslyBlack7 Lol sounds like a you problem.
@ericb9252 nope. I'm open minded..but since it sucked I stopped watching,problem solved..
@@SiriuslyBlack7 It didn't suck though, so you're wrong
6:54, Wonder Woman had a female director and it was good (I haven’t seen the sequel.) D.C Fontana wrote some of the best episodes of Star Trek. J.K. Rowling wrote the Harry Potter books and they’re great. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein and it’s rightly considered a classic.
"Wonder Woman 1984" was... kinda bad. The writing fell apart the more you thought about the story.
@@TF2CrunchyFrog I haven’t seen Wonder Woman 1984. I was talking about the first one.
I was happy when I told a woman and two teen girls I was volunteering about this show, explaining the “romance” the twitter and TikTok harpies are sad to loseand what happens and they were disgusted. The woman said she would never let her kids watch such a thing and the girls said they’d never watch Star Wars if that’s what they have going on.
Problem isn’t being female lead etc… but that that takes the play of storytelling and character building which results in not a good finished product. Has anyone played “No One Lives Forever”? The 2002 fps bond-like pc game? Wonder why they never turned that into a movie, it’s a pretty good game👍
People hate on drinker the way they hate on theory, they pretend it’s due to he’s not original or whatever but if those creators supported the message suddenly those same people who hated on them would love them and gush about their creativity.
Acolyte not getting a second season is a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
As a lifelong Star Wars fan, I refuse to lose a brain cell to the newest Star Wars properties, I’m done with Kathy Kennedy
6:34, because the way it was marketed made it sound terrible.
Queue up the Don’t Be A Menace gif… MESSAGE!!📫
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Thank God the Acolyte is canceled. That show is terrible
No, it was awesome
Really glad you enjoyed the show. It didn't work for me, but it is nice to see others that enjoy it and can speak to reasons they enjoy it.
@OnMyMindEntertainment It's easily one of my all time favorites and I'll buy the Blu-ray steelbook of it like I have with the other Disney+ MCU and Star Wars shows.
@@ericb9252but WHY did you like it? the writing was so bad, the characters uncompelling and flat and the decisions by characters were confusing
@@fringehouse To YOU, not to ME
To be fair, disney wasted so much money for 5 years so this is kind of surprising
Personally I think The Critical Drinker is justified in his criticism of the female presence surrounding this because the bulk of the interviews and promotion for the show focused on this aspect. They made an effort to link their gender and diversity to the show and they would have made the exact opposite argument that the drinker made, if the show had been a success. You can't both go out and declare that it's time women took control of Star Wars and then complain that your gender has nothing to do with it when it doesn't turn out how you hoped. To me, he's simply pointing out the hypocrisy of it.
Yep. That hits the nail on the head. The marketing dictated the discord around the show. Their only selling points were based on identity rather than storytelling. In essence it becomes this weird thing where you are not allowed to dislike it, because the show has women at the helm of every aspect of the show. House of the Dragon also has women at the helm of the show. The 2 leads are women. That show is beloved by the same people that hate The Acolyte. So this whole "bigotry" narrative being spun is just nothing but cope. Somehow they cannot comprehend that not everyone is obsessed with race, gender and sexual orientation. To most people none of that stuff matters.
I think women suck in all things and should be part of nothing and I don’t have to defend that because women are openly misandrist all the time and they never have to defend their bigotry. I owe them nothing. Men can dislike women as much as women have openly and aggressively have hated on men since the dawn of things.
Bad is bad. And I in no way think bad is an issue with gender or that it means that the Disney corporation needs to be burnt to the ground which is one of the reasons why I have issues with the critical drinker and nerdrodic.
Yeah. Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic have some good points but phrases like “M-She-U” just make it seem like they’re most interested in being provocative. (I also think Drinker is too fixated on “Mary Sue”s.)
@@matityaloran9157 yeah I agree with both points. I get the problem with Mary Sue's but it gets to the point where anytime there's a movie where there's a woman as the lead unless she is absolutely useless as a character she's considered a Mary Sue. But you throw a dude in there and it's okay for them to be John wick. There is some hypocrisy there lol.
@@cameronrobinson3933 True. I also think people call every character they think is poorly written is a Mary Sue.
You should watch the how it should have ended for the acolyte cancellation or OFL
Like I mentioned the last time this show came up: It has good concepts in there, but they hired exactly 0 writers with the talent to realize those concepts on the screen. That is really all there is to it. That created a lack of viewers and the lack of viewers caused it to be cancelled. I find the conversation around this show to be rather silly. I am not one to be upset about the show, and I am also not one to call anyone who didn't like it "bigots" which seems to be the mantra for anyone liking it. It is really not that deep, it is just a show that underperformed for such a steep price tag.
should watch more nerdrotic vids
I'm telling you should check out some videos that review the critical drinkers books. I do not think the videos would be good for you to do a reaction on I don't think they're humorous enough but just for you to get your own taste of what the critical drinker himself can actually write you might affect your opinion of him a bit.
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😂 still glad I havent watched this show! But Im still hopeful for a great Star Wars show or movie!
They'll definitely get their moment to redeem themselves. Disney star Wars has been an interesting beast that's for sure!
He didn’t say it was bad that it was female lead or written, he said it was poorly lead and written, the people doing that just happened to be female though and they put so much emphasis on it but couldn’t back it up with talent
Female lead is bad. Women getting into stuff is always the harbinger of that thing dying. Women don’t settle they need more and more and it has to be about them. I know the female centric hate that idea but that is very often how women are. They’re immensely ego centric and it suck’s all the guy energy and creativeness that created said thing out. I’d outright ban women and anyone too female centric from the creative process.
I never found CD funny at all & too obsessed w/ wokeness. He'll never hold a candle to pitch meeting, collegehumor, redlettermedia, cinema snob, nostalgia critic, Mr sunday movies, etc etc etc 😊 in my opinion
he's only popular with the wokemob
Good thing CD isn’t about humour. He’s an opinion based movie critic.
@@CanadianBalllHe's a grifter
I don't agree that it failed because of wokeness or bad writing. Star Wars writing has never been all that great. The original trilogy was a simple campy story based loosely on old timey space adventure shows and it wore its camp proudly and it was beautiful
In trying to update it for modern audiences, they lost track of what made it fun to watch. People will forgive a lot of bad writing and wokeness if the show is fun
Mandalorian season 1 was a campy spaghetti western cowboy show and people loved it because it went back to the roots of Star Wars
That was well-put
You don't seem to know what "camp" means. The original Star Wars trilogy is a genre called Space Opera, but the story was a fairy tale in a scifi setting. Lucas has openly said he was using the Hero's Journey structure from Joseph Campbell's seminal look at ancient myths and folklore: _The Hero with A Thousand Faces._
@@matityaloran9157that’s not at all well put, and oh my goodness is it severely wrong. That’s a stupid person looking at the surface and not getting it.
What you’re saying makes no sense. The concept of the modern audience is based on woke ideas they want to pretend are just how people are now. Modern audience ‘updating’ and woke is the same thing. Wokeness is a cultural cancer and it eats away at all and it’s what creates bad writing. Wokeness is inherent to why it failed as wokeness corrupts and destroys all it touches.
@@TF2CrunchyFrogStar Wars was well written and deep, that’s why it resonated and actually stupid campy stuff didn’t.
The drinker isn't funny or entertaining these days, he doesn't put much effort into his videos and mostly rehashes his other older videos and jokes, he's becoming a grifter. Anyway love your reactions man, keep going.
I'm definitely noticing it more after watching this and his Alien Romulus video. They're still fun to watch for good talking points though.
@@OnMyMindEntertainment I just can't watch him or anyone in his circle. I don't like negative reviews. Far too cynical
@@ericb9252 Not every negative review is too cynical. Sometimes something is just shit.
A grifter is someone who swindles people. I think Drinker actually believes what he is saying, so I am confused as to how he is swindling people. If we somehow found out that he actually loves the show, but went this route despite that, then I would tend to agree with your statement. Alas, I doubt that is the case at all. Aside from that, it is obviously perfectly fair to not find him entertaining. Different strokes for different folks :)
@@ericb9252 judging from your profile picture, I doubt you even know who they are outside of “Drinker bad”.
I HATE THIS.
Leslye Headland, the first woman to create a Star Wars series, tapped into something fresh and exciting in the fandom with S1 and while I had my notes she absolutely deserved a second season to let those ideas cook.
While I certainly had issues with it, I think it had excellent concepts that I would have liked to have a chance to see refined in a season 2.
The petition for Disney to renew is proof that actual SW fans liked The Acolyte, and they should listen to them, not bigots like The Critical Drinker.
There were a couple ideas here that could've worked and would've been nice to see come to fruition in Season 2, but literally only a couple. The things they really focused on in this one didn't make much sense and didn't draw people in the way they were hoping.
You say it was fresh and exciting, but the majority of people don't agree.
@Zanroff Actually the majority do, hence the outrage over the cancelation
@@ericb9252 The viewing numbers do not agree with you.
btw it is possible to dislike something without begin a bigot or an -ist or a -phobe. It is entirely possible that a diverse cast and crew does not equal amazing content.
@@ericb9252 of the 8.2 Billion people on earth, how many watched the series and of those, how many signed the petition?
I don't know if he was saying it's bad because it's female led and directed, but rather he's saying "it's bad because it's made by a a specific type of woman. Hardcore feminist with no talent for writing and story telling". maybe it would have been better he said "this type of person", because when you specify things, people can misread it. Like if I were to say "this book is about a stupid [Race] Person", people might think "woah, why are you saying [Race] people are stupid???" when in reality, I'm saying "this specific person is stupid. not because of their race, I was just stating their race". You can replace race with gender or nationality or whatever.
I think most "anti woke" content creators have made it clear they're fine with female made and lead content, just not this stuff. Like, they always bring up Alien, Terminator 1 and 2, Arrival, Annihilation, etc etc as been great films with female leads because they don't beat you over the head with ideology. It's there, but it's clever and subtle and not overbearing.