@@pawnswizard1 They literally print the money brah.....Idk if you have noticed this but they just print more as they need to, to gain more control. Money is truly no object to those that own the printing presses.
@@SmoggyFroggyDisney doesn’t own the printing machines though. These companies have been slowly reversing course after loosing billions. Sure they had the money to keep the loses going for a while, but as someone else pointed out that can’t last forever. The us government isnt funding rings of power lol. If you stop buying it, it will die eventually, I promise you that.
They’re just the worst, well nearly the worst, the white male urban liberal is even worse. As they’re the ones giving them power & running after them telling them they’re great. And then they say “ah, can I get some action now? I’m doing good aren’t I?”.
They had it all, an endless supply of guaranteed homeruns for the small sum of 4 billion dollars - then they fumbled the ball, repeatedly and on purpose
When the stands become more and more empty, when the fans walk out of the game, they're the ones to blame for the team's financial ruin. Kennedy admits this, yet refuses to improve the roster.
The problem is that Kennedy and her ilk see it as their solemn duty to use any popular IP as a platform for their ideology. It never crosses their minds that most people simply want entertainment that allows *escape* from real life, not ham-fisted activism shoved down their throats.
@SeekSomethingMore everyone is anti facism, it's not a right thing, both sides can go too far. Internal politics to the story is fine, real life politics injected into another world is not.
@@SeekSomethingMore ahem, absolutely not. Left wing going too far is communism, secret police and people disapearing because they talk against the party. So same thing as too far on the right.
There's an old "wife-bad"-genre saying i heard: "In a reletiontips with women there's two kinds of things - hers and ours". And it seems it is exactly how west threats it's male-audience/male-created IPs. If it's for women by women - it stays that way, nobody adding Dragon Ball-esque fighting in Twilight, nobody adds Arnold with a shotgun in Harry Potter. But if it's something popular with men? Well, that's just wont do, that is sexist don't you know, we need to change that imbalance and Modern Audience will come.
The same is true of perceptions of race and culture. It is always "we want equal access to yours but keep your hands off of ours". You need look no further than The Acolyte to see this in action. Coven entirely composed of women? Empowering. Jedi order with women in most leadership positions and generally weak male characters? Empowering. Disproportionate representation of ethnic minorities? Empowering. The still diverse but somewhat more white male leaning version that it replaces? Bigoted and outdated.
Yeah, there's a weird obsession with messing with male-oriented things. If it's something made for and enjoyed by women, nobody thinks anything of it most of the time, not even when men occasionally enjoy it as well, but when it's something made for and enjoyed by men, suddenly there's a perceived "social imbalance" that absolutely has to be corrected.
The double standards are so obvious even a child should be able to pick up on it after a while, but we're not supposed to question it. Intersectional feminists see anything with any elements of strong masculinity as toxic and needing to be purged with fire, because they connect masculinity with any negative interaction they've ever had with men. They will never be self examining and reflective enough to question if many of these negative interactions with men are because they themselves are just prickly, bitter, awful people.
Disney are doing a great job of making other studios look absolutely amazing. For example, remember Universal's last "Puss in Boots" movie? It was a reminder what you could do, if you put basic story telling above social engineering.
@@andrewalexander7363wild robot was a great movie. Not perfect but was really well done. And it felt like it actually came from a place of love. Like they wanted to make something good and not try to subvert or any of those other woke buzz words.
As a writer, I just noticed this. It's almost all women. All I've spoke to have been really cool. But, being a novel that takes place in the Buccaneer Era, >100 years after European contact, if I'm obliged to use a sensitivity reader I'm going to insist she lets me quiz her ("yes, HER!") about Aztec and Mayan history and Guna culture. And I can't wait to point out historical examples of the "problematic elements" she's sure to find.
Not to mention trying to get published these days is an almost entirely women’s world. And they all want the same thing; queer BIPOC authors. Damn the story, damn the quality, I want my checkboxes. What’s that? You’re straight and male? Well you’re also wrong, so back of the line with you It’s so fucking frustrating
It’s been more than ten years since I darkened the door of a book store. The last time I did, the entire SF/Fantasy aisle was full of fantasy/romance garbage about vampires and werewolves, and all of it was written by women I’d never heard of. All the old reliable authors I could count on have gotten too old and retired, or they are actually dead. Thankfully, I can find (almost) all their old out of print works on Anna’s Archive, so I have plenty to read on my iPad. Current day science fiction is a sewer, and (almost) every time I risk my time on it, I am disappointed with a floating turd of wokeness. I miss the good old days when I could walk into a mall bookstore, grab a paperback with an interesting hand painted cover and walk out with a good book. Some times an immortal classic.
Couldn’t agree more. I’ve had to revert back to Ray Feist, David Eddings and Robin Hobbs. Thankfully I read their books so long ago, many of them are like new to me 😀
@@seyerus Wheel of Time is good too... by which I mean the books... and NOT the show... which is utter woke garbage... as you'd expect from the studio behind Rings of Power. If you like the first book, Eye of the World, then there are a lot more... and the series is completed... no waiting for the next one to come out.
When I finished reading the canon (Updike, Roth, Trollope, Twain, etc.) I discovered many non canon authors who wrote compelling fiction. There is a vast supply of good stuff by, among others, Elmore Leonard, Michael Connelly, Rick Mofina, Jo Nesbo. Amor Towles could write the pants off any of the haridans churning out their sludge.
@@Nyet-Zdyes Read up to the 9th book I think. Really enjoyed them but ran out of patience. I read a book recently, Gods of the Wyrdwood which has a non-binary character…absolutely ridiculous. They can make their character literally anything they want in their fantasy world and they choose the most divisive character trait there is 🤷♂️ Annoying this is, the book wasn’t too bad but the sequels won’t be getting read.
@@seyerus Yes, the WoT books do slow down... but they pick up in the next book. IIRC, you were at the end of what they call "the slog"... lots of side stuff, and the main plot doesn't progress much. I was reading these books for the first time AS they were being published... and waiting 2-3 years for the next book, only for the main story to have little or no progress was *extremely* aggravating, at the time. Now, though, I kind of enjoy "the slog".
I can't believe Laura Dern was around 22 years old when filming Jurassic Park, I guess she's the kinda person that never really looked young, she always looked mature, or at least had facial features that made her look 30'ish.
I always assumed she was 30 something. And I don't see the problem she was pointing out. Was she supposed to be in a romance with Sam Niell in the movie? I never really saw them as being other than good friends and colleagues. Never got a romance vibe there, especially with her flirting with Jeff Goldblum.
I'm confused by that. I always saw them as a couple in Jurassic park, but I thought they were about the same age. She must really look old! It's not just gen Z looking old. XD
Not just the white women. Looking at sbi, black girl gamers, the most loud actresses right now, etc, this seems more a gender issue over a race issue if we focus on the two.
Any male writer able to write a half decent fetch quest novel with a relatable male protagonist, male comic relief sidekick, and female rival turned ally turned love interest could clean up these days as long as there is a cogent story structure and passably witty dialogue. I mean just look at what Rick Riordan pulled off with Percy Jackson.
The problem is they are not able to get published. Or at least published by any decent sized company. If you do not include all the typical liberal woke buzz words and tick all the boxes you're not even considered.
Self-published I suppose. Because from what I've heard from more than one budding writer/screenwriter is that the current publishing companies are so w0ke they automatically turn down non-established male writers as a rule. The very few given some attention are pressured to insert a female as the protagonist and have their work heavily edited by "sensitivity readers", aka intersectional censors. Openly stating such .. standards.
I'm over sixty so; Wonder Woman, The Bionic Woman, Sydney Bristow (Alias). Batgirl and Catwoman (Eartha Kitt!) Alexis and Dominique (Dynasty) Pam and Sue Ellen (Dallas). Abby,Val and Karen (Kots Landing) I have never wanted for cool female characters. They just have to be GOOD ones. And don't get me started on music! Tina Turner, Teena Marie, Janet Jackson, Tracy Chapman, Annie Lennox, Stevie Nicks....
Charlie's Angels... Dark Angel (Max/Jess. Alba)... Selene (Underworld)... all of the ladies of Firefly... all of the ladies of Farscape... Joan Jett... Pat Benatar... Reba McEntire... Bonnie Tyler... "Coal Miner's Daughter"... "Mama" Cass Elliott... Janis Joplin... Grace Slick... and Christine McVie too... and that's just keeping with the apparent theme of ignoring the ones most commonly listed (ex. Ellen Ripley)
Exactly. Thank you. We want GOOD characters. And we want them to stop destroying beloved male characters and telling us it's progress. It's pure spite.
@@cosmicmuffin322 Yes... and another thing... When it comes to the protagonists, we experience things from THEIR POV... and I don't want to be "in the head" of someone who is... vile. I think most people would agree with that, and so... It helps if the protagonist of the story is a "decent" person... at least.
This is amazingly well said, put, researched and ALARMINGLY relevant!, I'm an older guy in the music and writing industry and am genuinely concerned that we are being deliberately suppressed in both industries.
The early women writers were good because they had retained a male voice. Think of Mary Shelley, Edith Wharton, Shirley Jackson, etc. They could bring up women's feelings while bringing in an intellectuality. Likewise for the women screenwriters of the 1940s, which was considered a Golden Age for women in film. The best creations had a male framework with female nuance. In contrast, I find the current female-led fiction or film either mushy or overly lush. All have a liberal message -- men bad, women good. The only sympathetic male characters are gay or politically liberal.
If there was ever an example of the lack of any diversity of thought, look at all the female characters that have been coming out in the last couple of years. No matter the franchise, no matter the genre, no matter pre established lore…it’s the exact same character over and over and over again. A bossy, bitchy, know it all Mary Sue who has no flaws, no weaknesses, never struggles in anything, is always perceived as right on everything, is constantly belittling all the male characters around her, and who’s one and only vice is that she laments about how others refuse to acknowledge her greatness. Once you see this pattern, you can’t unsee it from all the different characters that Hollywood keeps churning out these days. It’s freaking boring.
@@SeekSomethingMoreWell, yes. The CEOS might be talentless and greedy but the people that actually do the work inside those companies need to be talented for the products to be good. Or do you think Disney became the massive company they are today by just throwing money into everything? No, they had great and talented writers that carried the company in their backs. And now that they've got rid of those talented writers, they are collapsing. But, I don't think you can understand that, considering it's obvious from all of your comments that you are a commie. You're in the wrong place, go back to watching Vaush or Hasanabi. You're not welcome here.
@@DioTheGreatOne no, Disney became the massive company they are today through exploitation. Sorry to intrude on your safe space, but I'm staying. It's also ironic that you are advocating for talent being valued, yet use the term commie as a pejorative.
I have been saying this for years!!!!!! I literally just shared your video with my wife because she’s gonna get a kick out of it. I’ve been ranting about this for so long.
There is an old Steely Dan song - Show biz Kids. that sums it up "Show business kids making movies of themselves, you know they don't givve a f.... about anybody else. "
Excellent as usual! I had no idea the literary world was so over-flowing with estrogen. I think if we boomer men had known how things would turn out 60 yrs ago we would, instead of trying to relate and be understanding, have come down hard on the insidious, overwrought and narcissistic dogma called feminism.
From "As Good As It Gets" ~ "How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away all reason and accountability." I think it sums it up perfectly when you look at a show like The Acolyte. The story was no good and there was no reason it should have been green lit for production. Then when it bombed it was someone else's fault.
@@christopherkelley1664 Probably doesn't want to get his youtube removed, you can't criticize those people without risking your channel being punished.
They hate the natural prestige that is often associated with men, whenever a role such as a hero comes to mind. These women aren't heroic, they're narcissists obsessed with self aggrandizing. They're the epitome of why women never get associated with the role of a hero. Men became legends because they often didn't do amazing things in hopes their names would be remembered. The most remembered men in history are the ones who took risks and were willing to lose everything they had, whether it was their physical wealth, their reputation, or their own lives. Such a characteristic is not a natural aspect of women.
Wow, last year I bought an e-reader and was freshly confronted with all women author lists. I was completely taken by surprise. I had to go 4 pages down to finad a man. Wtf. I used to be completely opposite. My trust at the time in a valid read of one of those woman was hovering at 0-1 out of 10. Let's be clear, my all time favorite book is Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. But that is a unique showcase that women can write great books, that women can be great like Madam Curie. Be great on their own two legs that is, and not lifted by discriminating reactionary discourse. Who would have guessed women can be admired by all, when REALLY being strong, smart, thoughtful and tenacious
Women are by nature, focused on themselves. Men are by nature, focused on the task at hand. When you're doing something for the population at large, it's best to have the male mentality. And that's includes everything across the board, from entertainment, to politics, to business, etc. This society was built and is maintained on man's focus on the task at hand. With people now trying to put women in roles that require focus on the task at hand. The society is in danger of collapse.
The publishing industry experienced a female takeover, and they carried that forward to sign women and 🌈 authors. I have belonged to Audible and I receive the audible daily deal, and >90% of the offerings are female authors telling female stories. I read about 2/3 of the plot summaries, and the synopses make me groan. A "journey" by some special class/race of woman blabbering about the challenges they face.
Seriously, maybe check out some decent entertainment instead. Star Wars may be ruined, but Terrifier movies are fun. Concord might be trash, but Metroid Dread is fantastic. Samus is a strong female character and she is awesome. There's good stuff out there. Why keep complaining about Velma when you knew it was bad during season one? Why keep watching Rings of Power when it was terrible from the start? Why are you still watching and complaining about it instead of moving on?
@@TonySmits Some people watch it to report on it. Others, like myself, are only watching these videos. I'm currently mostly watching anime, old and new one.
'Conquered the world of fiction'? More like gravitated to the most comfortable, middle class and prestigious professions that looks the most fun: Journalist, Writer, Blogger, Influencer. Actress, Model - on and on. Can't wait for them to conquer the world of sanitation work. There is a massive old-girl network in the UK which has existed for years right through academia, publishing, TV, etc, and if you look at 'new' starts of TV writing, Directing, etc, you can always trace them back to the same few things - affluence, girls schools, and their friend network (there are outliers, but they usually tick some box or other of their own). They decide who gets the funding for everything, they decide who gets their works made or published. These are the same people who talk about sexism _against them_ without a hint of irony.
One of my favorite videos you’ve done. The landscape of literature, especially scifi and fantasy, is overrun with mediocre female authors. it’s been driving me crazy. I felt like I was taking crazy pills with the sheer volume of uninspired slop on the shelves. As a demonstration to my friend, I searched “Military” on the popular library app Libby, the number one result is a book about being a woman in the service. 😂
I read a book a day. I find it increasingly difficult to find good new books. I generally avoid anything after 2015 now. 2015 seems to be the year that shit happened in everything- books, films, cars, games, politicians…
@@mxvega1097 It began much earlier. During Obama's presidency. People have poor memories. They forget about the recession, the bank bailouts, auto manufacturer bailouts, that huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, that decimated wild life in the beaches across the south, the shooting of Treyvon Martin and Obama saying that could have been his son. They forget about his pushing LGBT stuff and dividing American by racial lines. Trumpism was a reaction to all of that stuff. The only difference is the media really went overboard with the attacks on conservatives around the time Trump first ran for president.
When Lucas sold out to Disney, he got billions. And he insisted that Kennedy take over Lucasfilm, which of course included "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones". That Kennedy turned out to be a terrible choice, an ideologue who put messages ahead of entertainment, and decided to make those two cash cows into feminist manifestos was not Lucas' fault. But he had worked with her for years, yet apparently never detected these traits in her character. In short, there is blame to go around.
absolutely, if you want to know what happened to video games look at developer staff photos from 10+ years ago and look at current ones and you can see why AAA video games suck now
Dev teams before: 20 regular guys with a black t shirt. Dev teams now: 4 troons that don't pass at all, 7 liberal white women with bright colored hair and gigantic eyeglasses, 3 activist black chicks that say the most racist shit you've ever heard in your life, and 6 white guys that are malnourished and balding.
Society isn't looking too good either. Too many cat mom feminist being given the lead since they haven't earned it. Like star wars, marvel etc. DEI is killing it all. A lesson that I guess must be learned at a heavy cost.
I would agree that rogue one is the best of the Disney Star Wars movies. However, remember one thing about rogue one: it’s the prequel to the original Star Wars, which we all love and it was designed solely to answer the question how come there was the open port that Luke destroyed and also everyone’s favorite scene in rogue one is when Darth Vader kills everyone in the hallway. The best of a rogue one is linked to the best of Star Wars from years past.
I remember watching tfa a theater with my sister. And I distinctively remember the feeling after walking out of the theater: emptiness. It was not bad, not compared to what Kathlyn has given us after. But was just a weightless forgettable movie made to attract SW crowd.
You know what really doesn't make sense about the current trend of trying to rewrite male-focusing franchises into female-focusing? Just prior to this trend, we saw over half a decade of successful, female-focused megablockbuster franchises. Twilight, 50 Shades, Hunger Games, Divergent. You can argue the quality of those franchises, but they were original stories that aimed for a female audience from the get go. And they were much more successful than trying to remake established franchises to be more feminine. I suppose it wasn't good enough that women had their own things to watch and men had their own things to watch. Everything needs to be made for women to watch and men can make do with nothing. The funny thing is, based on audience numbers and box office numbers, these remade franchises don't even seem to interest women. Studios aren't even trying to make the next Hunger Games-like series (aka a new franchise based off a popular female book series) The studios seem content with twisting a squashing established male franchises rather than trying to make something new that would genuinely appeal to women.
The Goodnight Kiwi will never be the same. Amusing use of that old footage though. I appreciate the New Zealand clips in general though. We usually see all the American stuff. Probably few people will know the New Zealand ones but it's a change of pace (also, those drink driving ads are too ridiculous not to mock).
Well done, sir. I celebrate every word of this video. The pendulum swings, and I feel there will be a return to interest in men’s sensibilities soon, now that the monetary failures in film, television and gaming are now counted in the billions.
Here's a slightly interesting perspective on things. Possibly. Watched Burt Reynolds in 'Hooper' yesterday, an astonishingly entertaining film from 1978. I was in my teens at the time and was absolutely enthralled by it. Now here's the interesting part. How the women were depicted in this classic was totally exceptional! Stood out like dog's balls in the environment of today's 'entertainment'. It took me back to the days before woke when casting was casting and not catering to agendas. Pure entertainment with hidden homage for the cinema purists. Easy 9/10.
Your thesaurus must be immense and very well used! Those statistics you quoted show what equality really means. Thank you for an informative and enjoyable video.
The problem is that they were invited in with the chance to enjoy these things equally. Then equality happened and they found they did not like it. At that point they decided that they must be the ones to define what is the most understanding way for a piece of media to be presented.
@@SeekSomethingMore I didn’t make my point well. What I mean is they had equal opportunities, but that meant effort which for them meant seeing the true quality of their work. Since that means they would never succeed they took advantage of the initial invitation to change everything so that the only products on the market are ones they made.
The sad thing is that none of this HAS to be bad. Star Wars, rings of power, etc, all could have been good and entertaining, even with their disproportionate women cast, but these hacks completely blew it by making all the wrong decisions. You can have all the diversity you want so long as the story is good, but these people were just too concerned with stroking their own egos.
Firstly I love the little kiwi. It's so cute lol. Secondly, I'm not a big fan of newer books cause most coming out are a copy and paste of something else. Like when you copy someone's homework but change it a lil bit so you don't get in trouble. Even the damn covers are starting to look similar. Fantasy and romance are the worst offenders.
As long as we're in a free market, any unaddressed market demands will be filled by alternative options. Hollywood is collapsing on itself and the demand for good stories and entertainment will being filled by foreign movies, anime, even RUclips. I suspect the same will happen with literature.
Men and women are complimentary. Creating entertainment with my husband has been an interesting journey. We discovered we need each other to write something we'd love to read. Humility is what makes you grow as a creator, not arrogance. Characters in a story just grow intuitively. I don't care how many x and y are represented. Art should be a matter of the heart first, not of pushing rational agendas and messages.
I whole heartedly disagree that "The force awakens" was in any way, shape or form a "serviceable entry". It was loathsome. The absolute best I can say about it is that it had a pretty decent setup at the beginning of the movie for the protagonist.
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It's almost as though talent has been replaced with self-righteousness and narcissism
Sounds like every marriage
It actually is narcissism. Their need for a reflection of themselves is a sign even they would notice if they had a tiny shred of self awareness left
@@nerychristianI’ll never get married because girls won’t even look at me.
Talent got metooed
Welcome to weimar.
Remember kids! If you don’t buy it, it goes away!
Money is not a problem for them don't you get it? The evils of this world are wealthy
@@stellviahohenheim not infinitely. That’s what they thought a few years ago. They’re starting to realize they actually can die. They’re losing.
@@pawnswizard1 They literally print the money brah.....Idk if you have noticed this but they just print more as they need to, to gain more control. Money is truly no object to those that own the printing presses.
When they own everything you need to survive, denying them money will never be an option.
@@SmoggyFroggyDisney doesn’t own the printing machines though. These companies have been slowly reversing course after loosing billions. Sure they had the money to keep the loses going for a while, but as someone else pointed out that can’t last forever. The us government isnt funding rings of power lol. If you stop buying it, it will die eventually, I promise you that.
Affluent White female urban liberals aren’t called “Awful”’s for nothing
Never heard of this, will be using is till the day I die
I'm stealing that...
They’re just the worst, well nearly the worst, the white male urban liberal is even worse. As they’re the ones giving them power & running after them telling them they’re great.
And then they say “ah, can I get some action now? I’m doing good aren’t I?”.
@@seregrian5675 Same. Zachary struck some oil here
Ooh, I like this better than Karen ...
Karens ruin everything they touch.
Stephanie Meyer was one of the first instances of this.
@@Yogurt_Fingersbingo
White women tend to do that
White liberal women destroy everything they touch.
Also their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Liberal Karen's destroy everything they touch.
Also their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
I love the fact that it's a 'girl' booing Ray Palpatine!
"Clearly a chud in disguise"
Disney.
In the full clip she called her as “Rey Nobody.”
And someone screamed *_"I HATE STAR WARS!"_*
I genuinely did feel very.....represented.....by her 😄 god that was such a slap in the face
They had it all, an endless supply of guaranteed homeruns for the small sum of 4 billion dollars - then they fumbled the ball, repeatedly and on purpose
When the stands become more and more empty, when the fans walk out of the game, they're the ones to blame for the team's financial ruin. Kennedy admits this, yet refuses to improve the roster.
EXCELLENT ECHO CHAMBERLAIN WORK. 😊😊😊😊😊😊
There’s your problem - they’re trying to play football with a baseball 🤣🤣🤣
It’s not just entertainment. Their negative influence has damaged nearly every facet of life.
Woke women and simps destroying the world.
Yep. Education. Politics. Law. Marriage. Entertainment.
Entertainment and western civilization...
Beat me to it
We’re so screwed. 💯
They're so smug about it, too. They know exactly what they are doing.
@@thetandfpodcast “They’re so proud of themselves.” - Cassian Andor
Commerce, logistics, infrastructure...
Liberal white women are a biblical level pestilence.
The problem is that Kennedy and her ilk see it as their solemn duty to use any popular IP as a platform for their ideology. It never crosses their minds that most people simply want entertainment that allows *escape* from real life, not ham-fisted activism shoved down their throats.
Yet Andor and George Lucas Star Wars--literal anti-fascism--was their most popular show, even among this right wing audiences.
@SeekSomethingMore everyone is anti facism, it's not a right thing, both sides can go too far. Internal politics to the story is fine, real life politics injected into another world is not.
@@Nartanek no, fascism is literally a right thing. The left going "too far" looks like Star Trek. Another show that featured real world politics.
@@SeekSomethingMore ahem, absolutely not. Left wing going too far is communism, secret police and people disapearing because they talk against the party. So same thing as too far on the right.
@@SeekSomethingMore you didnt read about history did you? Secret police, people disapearing in the ussr?
Bring back professionally stoic men into entertainment again!
Precisely. 👏🏾👍🏾
The HR department wont take them. they are TOXIC... duh
Voting with my wallet, works as designed.
There's an old "wife-bad"-genre saying i heard: "In a reletiontips with women there's two kinds of things - hers and ours". And it seems it is exactly how west threats it's male-audience/male-created IPs. If it's for women by women - it stays that way, nobody adding Dragon Ball-esque fighting in Twilight, nobody adds Arnold with a shotgun in Harry Potter. But if it's something popular with men? Well, that's just wont do, that is sexist don't you know, we need to change that imbalance and Modern Audience will come.
The same is true of perceptions of race and culture. It is always "we want equal access to yours but keep your hands off of ours".
You need look no further than The Acolyte to see this in action. Coven entirely composed of women? Empowering. Jedi order with women in most leadership positions and generally weak male characters? Empowering. Disproportionate representation of ethnic minorities? Empowering. The still diverse but somewhat more white male leaning version that it replaces? Bigoted and outdated.
Yeah, there's a weird obsession with messing with male-oriented things. If it's something made for and enjoyed by women, nobody thinks anything of it most of the time, not even when men occasionally enjoy it as well, but when it's something made for and enjoyed by men, suddenly there's a perceived "social imbalance" that absolutely has to be corrected.
The double standards are so obvious even a child should be able to pick up on it after a while, but we're not supposed to question it. Intersectional feminists see anything with any elements of strong masculinity as toxic and needing to be purged with fire, because they connect masculinity with any negative interaction they've ever had with men. They will never be self examining and reflective enough to question if many of these negative interactions with men are because they themselves are just prickly, bitter, awful people.
By the ruinious powers, i hope Warhammer stays safe.
@@KeehlaSelaiNo it will not.
Disney are doing a great job of making other studios look absolutely amazing. For example, remember Universal's last "Puss in Boots" movie? It was a reminder what you could do, if you put basic story telling above social engineering.
Puss In Boots The Last Wish is a
Wonderful example of good storytelling and well made entertainment.
Last two theatres outings for me were puss and wild robot. Disney is shit.
@@andrewalexander7363wild robot was a great movie. Not perfect but was really well done. And it felt like it actually came from a place of love. Like they wanted to make something good and not try to subvert or any of those other woke buzz words.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Godzilla Minus One
BOTH of these were pimp-hand slaps to the Hollywood Elites
Good piece, explaining why we now have bitch culture.
how can an buisness ignore 90% of her audience ? ... mindblowing
disney ceos are simps or angry women
'You are so lost, Edward'. 'Yes deer'. #TinyToons
A Gay Republican needs to be in charge of this company.
Not just entertainment!! I’m a white 63 year old moderate and I’m horrified by what 3rd wave feminism has done to us all
Not "are ruining", "have been for a while and continue to do so".
They've been ruining it since the boomers took over the industry.
I promise you, it's not only the white ones. Go look
As a writer, I just noticed this. It's almost all women. All I've spoke to have been really cool. But, being a novel that takes place in the Buccaneer Era, >100 years after European contact, if I'm obliged to use a sensitivity reader I'm going to insist she lets me quiz her ("yes, HER!") about Aztec and Mayan history and Guna culture. And I can't wait to point out historical examples of the "problematic elements" she's sure to find.
Not to mention trying to get published these days is an almost entirely women’s world. And they all want the same thing; queer BIPOC authors. Damn the story, damn the quality, I want my checkboxes. What’s that? You’re straight and male? Well you’re also wrong, so back of the line with you
It’s so fucking frustrating
You're already whipped.
It’s been more than ten years since I darkened the door of a book store. The last time I did, the entire SF/Fantasy aisle was full of fantasy/romance garbage about vampires and werewolves, and all of it was written by women I’d never heard of. All the old reliable authors I could count on have gotten too old and retired, or they are actually dead. Thankfully, I can find (almost) all their old out of print works on Anna’s Archive, so I have plenty to read on my iPad.
Current day science fiction is a sewer, and (almost) every time I risk my time on it, I am disappointed with a floating turd of wokeness.
I miss the good old days when I could walk into a mall bookstore, grab a paperback with an interesting hand painted cover and walk out with a good book. Some times an immortal classic.
Couldn’t agree more. I’ve had to revert back to Ray Feist, David Eddings and Robin Hobbs. Thankfully I read their books so long ago, many of them are like new to me 😀
@@seyerus Wheel of Time is good too... by which I mean the books... and NOT the show... which is utter woke garbage... as you'd expect from the studio behind Rings of Power.
If you like the first book, Eye of the World, then there are a lot more... and the series is completed... no waiting for the next one to come out.
When I finished reading the canon (Updike, Roth, Trollope, Twain, etc.) I discovered many non canon authors who wrote compelling fiction. There is a vast supply of good stuff by, among others, Elmore Leonard, Michael Connelly, Rick Mofina, Jo Nesbo. Amor Towles could write the pants off any of the haridans churning out their sludge.
@@Nyet-Zdyes Read up to the 9th book I think. Really enjoyed them but ran out of patience. I read a book recently, Gods of the Wyrdwood which has a non-binary character…absolutely ridiculous. They can make their character literally anything they want in their fantasy world and they choose the most divisive character trait there is 🤷♂️ Annoying this is, the book wasn’t too bad but the sequels won’t be getting read.
@@seyerus Yes, the WoT books do slow down... but they pick up in the next book.
IIRC, you were at the end of what they call "the slog"... lots of side stuff, and the main plot doesn't progress much.
I was reading these books for the first time AS they were being published... and waiting 2-3 years for the next book, only for the main story to have little or no progress was *extremely* aggravating, at the time.
Now, though, I kind of enjoy "the slog".
I can't believe Laura Dern was around 22 years old when filming Jurassic Park, I guess she's the kinda person that never really looked young, she always looked mature, or at least had facial features that made her look 30'ish.
She sure doesn't appear to be aging well.
And she didn't need to take that role. Money overrides personal ethics all the time.
I always assumed she was 30 something.
And I don't see the problem she was pointing out. Was she supposed to be in a romance with Sam Niell in the movie? I never really saw them as being other than good friends and colleagues. Never got a romance vibe there, especially with her flirting with Jeff Goldblum.
I'm confused by that. I always saw them as a couple in Jurassic park, but I thought they were about the same age. She must really look old! It's not just gen Z looking old. XD
@fattiger6957 I always assumed she was older too, but the talk about wanting/not wanting kids made it clear they were together.
I was just discussing with my grown son how there haven’t been any books written in the past decade worth reading. Maybe longer.
Not just the white women. Looking at sbi, black girl gamers, the most loud actresses right now, etc, this seems more a gender issue over a race issue if we focus on the two.
Rings of Power is an abomination.
One of the worst LOTR products ever made.
Peace sells, but who's buying...
@@jazzyb4656 Good quality writing sells and it’s what people REALLY want.
@@chasehedges6775 lol, nvm, the comment wasn't really for you.
@@jazzyb4656 Fair enough
Any male writer able to write a half decent fetch quest novel with a relatable male protagonist, male comic relief sidekick, and female rival turned ally turned love interest could clean up these days as long as there is a cogent story structure and passably witty dialogue. I mean just look at what Rick Riordan pulled off with Percy Jackson.
The problem is they are not able to get published. Or at least published by any decent sized company. If you do not include all the typical liberal woke buzz words and tick all the boxes you're not even considered.
Not happening. The women gatekeep the industry. Read more. And hate men.
Self-published I suppose. Because from what I've heard from more than one budding writer/screenwriter is that the current publishing companies are so w0ke they automatically turn down non-established male writers as a rule. The very few given some attention are pressured to insert a female as the protagonist and have their work heavily edited by "sensitivity readers", aka intersectional censors. Openly stating such .. standards.
I'm over sixty so; Wonder Woman, The Bionic Woman, Sydney Bristow (Alias). Batgirl and Catwoman (Eartha Kitt!) Alexis and Dominique (Dynasty) Pam and Sue Ellen (Dallas). Abby,Val and Karen (Kots Landing) I have never wanted for cool female characters. They just have to be GOOD ones. And don't get me started on music! Tina Turner, Teena Marie, Janet Jackson, Tracy Chapman, Annie Lennox, Stevie Nicks....
Charlie's Angels... Dark Angel (Max/Jess. Alba)... Selene (Underworld)... all of the ladies of Firefly... all of the ladies of Farscape...
Joan Jett... Pat Benatar... Reba McEntire... Bonnie Tyler... "Coal Miner's Daughter"... "Mama" Cass Elliott... Janis Joplin... Grace Slick... and Christine McVie too...
and that's just keeping with the apparent theme of ignoring the ones most commonly listed (ex. Ellen Ripley)
Exactly. Thank you. We want GOOD characters. And we want them to stop destroying beloved male characters and telling us it's progress. It's pure spite.
@@cosmicmuffin322 Yes... and another thing...
When it comes to the protagonists, we experience things from THEIR POV... and I don't want to be "in the head" of someone who is... vile.
I think most people would agree with that, and so...
It helps if the protagonist of the story is a "decent" person... at least.
Most of the content I consume are from independents or foreign-origin. The mainstream stuff is so bland that it’s borderline criminal.
Just don’t buy their garbage. Easy.
The longer I live, the more I understand why women were treated like property for the majority of history.
Well, they asked for a place in the table and took over the table, it's time for male autors to make a new table, I don't see another way.
Make a new table and these types will demand that they be let in, in full knowledge that the table they're leaving behind is ruined beyond repair.
today's Dustborn numbers: "Online now: 4 24-hour peak: 12 All-time peak: 83"
The wonders of tax-funded "art"
Those 83 were probably dev team members
And yet the relatively cheaply made John Wick movies always perform well. It’s almost like men are thirsting for masculine entertainment….
This is amazingly well said, put, researched and ALARMINGLY relevant!, I'm an older guy in the music and writing industry and am genuinely concerned that we are being deliberately suppressed in both industries.
The early women writers were good because they had retained a male voice. Think of Mary Shelley, Edith Wharton, Shirley Jackson, etc. They could bring up women's feelings while bringing in an intellectuality. Likewise for the women screenwriters of the 1940s, which was considered a Golden Age for women in film. The best creations had a male framework with female nuance.
In contrast, I find the current female-led fiction or film either mushy or overly lush. All have a liberal message -- men bad, women good. The only sympathetic male characters are gay or politically liberal.
If there was ever an example of the lack of any diversity of thought, look at all the female characters that have been coming out in the last couple of years.
No matter the franchise, no matter the genre, no matter pre established lore…it’s the exact same character over and over and over again.
A bossy, bitchy, know it all Mary Sue who has no flaws, no weaknesses, never struggles in anything, is always perceived as right on everything, is constantly belittling all the male characters around her, and who’s one and only vice is that she laments about how others refuse to acknowledge her greatness.
Once you see this pattern, you can’t unsee it from all the different characters that Hollywood keeps churning out these days.
It’s freaking boring.
Being told a lesson is not entertainment.
It's almost as if "giving space" based on anything but talent make entire industries fail
You think talent built thr wealth most companies have? You genuinely believe that?
@@SeekSomethingMoreWell, yes. The CEOS might be talentless and greedy but the people that actually do the work inside those companies need to be talented for the products to be good.
Or do you think Disney became the massive company they are today by just throwing money into everything? No, they had great and talented writers that carried the company in their backs. And now that they've got rid of those talented writers, they are collapsing.
But, I don't think you can understand that, considering it's obvious from all of your comments that you are a commie.
You're in the wrong place, go back to watching Vaush or Hasanabi. You're not welcome here.
@@DioTheGreatOne no, Disney became the massive company they are today through exploitation.
Sorry to intrude on your safe space, but I'm staying.
It's also ironic that you are advocating for talent being valued, yet use the term commie as a pejorative.
@@SeekSomethingMore Dio answered before i could lol, but pretty much what he said.
I have been saying this for years!!!!!! I literally just shared your video with my wife because she’s gonna get a kick out of it. I’ve been ranting about this for so long.
There is an old Steely Dan song - Show biz Kids. that sums it up "Show business kids making movies of themselves, you know they don't givve a f.... about anybody else. "
Excellent as usual! I had no idea the literary world was so over-flowing with estrogen. I think if we boomer men had known how things would turn out 60 yrs ago we would, instead of trying to relate and be understanding, have come down hard on the insidious, overwrought and narcissistic dogma called feminism.
From "As Good As It Gets" ~
"How do you write women so well?
I think of a man and I take away all reason and accountability."
I think it sums it up perfectly when you look at a show like The Acolyte. The story was no good and there was no reason it should have been green lit for production. Then when it bombed it was someone else's fault.
I use that quote extensively - because it's true...
Yeah, and Latin, black, Jewish and south Asian women have been soooo great for entertainment.
It's about who's in charge.
@@NoidoDev I didn't hear Echo mention Jewish studio heads.
@@christopherkelley1664 Probably doesn't want to get his youtube removed, you can't criticize those people without risking your channel being punished.
Who knew that No Ma'am would one day need to become a real organization...
May God bless you and sir Despot once again and once again deep respect from Croatia-Europe ❤
They seem to conflate "making a difference" with "overcompensating at caricatural extremes"
They hate the natural prestige that is often associated with men, whenever a role such as a hero comes to mind. These women aren't heroic, they're narcissists obsessed with self aggrandizing. They're the epitome of why women never get associated with the role of a hero. Men became legends because they often didn't do amazing things in hopes their names would be remembered. The most remembered men in history are the ones who took risks and were willing to lose everything they had, whether it was their physical wealth, their reputation, or their own lives. Such a characteristic is not a natural aspect of women.
Wow, last year I bought an e-reader and was freshly confronted with all women author lists. I was completely taken by surprise. I had to go 4 pages down to finad a man. Wtf. I used to be completely opposite. My trust at the time in a valid read of one of those woman was hovering at 0-1 out of 10.
Let's be clear, my all time favorite book is Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. But that is a unique showcase that women can write great books, that women can be great like Madam Curie. Be great on their own two legs that is, and not lifted by discriminating reactionary discourse. Who would have guessed women can be admired by all, when REALLY being strong, smart, thoughtful and tenacious
Women are by nature, focused on themselves. Men are by nature, focused on the task at hand. When you're doing something for the population at large, it's best to have the male mentality. And that's includes everything across the board, from entertainment, to politics, to business, etc. This society was built and is maintained on man's focus on the task at hand. With people now trying to put women in roles that require focus on the task at hand. The society is in danger of collapse.
The publishing industry experienced a female takeover, and they carried that forward to sign women and 🌈 authors. I have belonged to Audible and I receive the audible daily deal, and >90% of the offerings are female authors telling female stories. I read about 2/3 of the plot summaries, and the synopses make me groan. A "journey" by some special class/race of woman blabbering about the challenges they face.
dam Echo your mastery of the English language knows no bounds
They're not just ruining entertainment to be honest
Stop watching these crap shows and movies
Seriously, maybe check out some decent entertainment instead. Star Wars may be ruined, but Terrifier movies are fun. Concord might be trash, but Metroid Dread is fantastic. Samus is a strong female character and she is awesome.
There's good stuff out there.
Why keep complaining about Velma when you knew it was bad during season one? Why keep watching Rings of Power when it was terrible from the start? Why are you still watching and complaining about it instead of moving on?
@@TonySmits Well said brother
I did! I watch and play old shows and games.
@@TonySmits
Some people watch it to report on it. Others, like myself, are only watching these videos. I'm currently mostly watching anime, old and new one.
'Conquered the world of fiction'? More like gravitated to the most comfortable, middle class and prestigious professions that looks the most fun: Journalist, Writer, Blogger, Influencer. Actress, Model - on and on. Can't wait for them to conquer the world of sanitation work. There is a massive old-girl network in the UK which has existed for years right through academia, publishing, TV, etc, and if you look at 'new' starts of TV writing, Directing, etc, you can always trace them back to the same few things - affluence, girls schools, and their friend network (there are outliers, but they usually tick some box or other of their own). They decide who gets the funding for everything, they decide who gets their works made or published. These are the same people who talk about sexism _against them_ without a hint of irony.
Absolutely important analysis and critique of the publishing industry.
I can sit it out until things improve. There is a seam of old stuff you don't even know was made is just waiting for you to find.
The 'Kennedy' effect.
No liberal women in general.
No, Liberals in general
Henry Higgins knew what he was talking about. Listen to Nat King Cole's version of "A Hymn to Him" and that will put that song in perspective.
a true abomination
Now we got it right.
old women just don’t have the energy or panesh to deliver zeitgeisty entertainment
One of my favorite videos you’ve done. The landscape of literature, especially scifi and fantasy, is overrun with mediocre female authors. it’s been driving me crazy. I felt like I was taking crazy pills with the sheer volume of uninspired slop on the shelves.
As a demonstration to my friend, I searched “Military” on the popular library app Libby, the number one result is a book about being a woman in the service. 😂
Us men just can’t have anything nice anymore can we.
You'll have to look more. There's still plenty. Just not in every area.
I don't think it's just the entertainment they've messed up
I read a book a day. I find it increasingly difficult to find good new books. I generally avoid anything after 2015 now. 2015 seems to be the year that shit happened in everything- books, films, cars, games, politicians…
Robert Louis Stevenson
Yup 2015 was the year it all started
I'm intrigued by the 2015 change. I was living in Asia so missed the lead-up to it, then moved back to the peripheral West. What drove it?
@@mxvega1097 It began much earlier. During Obama's presidency. People have poor memories. They forget about the recession, the bank bailouts, auto manufacturer bailouts, that huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, that decimated wild life in the beaches across the south, the shooting of Treyvon Martin and Obama saying that could have been his son. They forget about his pushing LGBT stuff and dividing American by racial lines. Trumpism was a reaction to all of that stuff. The only difference is the media really went overboard with the attacks on conservatives around the time Trump first ran for president.
@@mxvega1097it was the season right before the 2016 election
Then the 2016 election happened, and it all went downhill from there.
When Lucas sold out to Disney, he got billions. And he insisted that Kennedy take over Lucasfilm, which of course included "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones". That Kennedy turned out to be a terrible choice, an ideologue who put messages ahead of entertainment, and decided to make those two cash cows into feminist manifestos was not Lucas' fault. But he had worked with her for years, yet apparently never detected these traits in her character. In short, there is blame to go around.
absolutely, if you want to know what happened to video games look at developer staff photos from 10+ years ago and look at current ones and you can see why AAA video games suck now
Or you could just say what you mean, instead of being a wuss.
Dev teams before: 20 regular guys with a black t shirt.
Dev teams now: 4 troons that don't pass at all, 7 liberal white women with bright colored hair and gigantic eyeglasses, 3 activist black chicks that say the most racist shit you've ever heard in your life, and 6 white guys that are malnourished and balding.
Society isn't looking too good either. Too many cat mom feminist being given the lead since they haven't earned it. Like star wars, marvel etc. DEI is killing it all. A lesson that I guess must be learned at a heavy cost.
Your ancestors gave you the blue print, you(society) called them old fashioned and sexist.
This channel needs a bigger audience. Excellent analysis paced for the ADHD and written for the gifted
So much sexism women are getting worse
A pretext to justify the further criminalization of black manhood in this country.
You... you think the sexism is coming from women? You think that any shred of it isn't backlash due to decades of it directed to them, to this day?
Vote trump to end this crap! ❤
As a liberal, non-white, non-woman, I agree.
Rogue one was the best Star Wars movie of the Disney era IMO. The Force Awakens was also pretty decent. The rest has been from meh to horrible.
I would agree that rogue one is the best of the Disney Star Wars movies. However, remember one thing about rogue one: it’s the prequel to the original Star Wars, which we all love and it was designed solely to answer the question how come there was the open port that Luke destroyed and also everyone’s favorite scene in rogue one is when Darth Vader kills everyone in the hallway. The best of a rogue one is linked to the best of Star Wars from years past.
Passive protagonist (whatshername) was rough, full of plotholes and bad edits, it's not as horrible as the rest but it's still not any good.
What about the mandalorian?
I remember watching tfa a theater with my sister. And I distinctively remember the feeling after walking out of the theater: emptiness. It was not bad, not compared to what Kathlyn has given us after.
But was just a weightless forgettable movie made to attract SW crowd.
@@hetty100First season was good. Second was hit and miss. Third was trash.
You know what really doesn't make sense about the current trend of trying to rewrite male-focusing franchises into female-focusing? Just prior to this trend, we saw over half a decade of successful, female-focused megablockbuster franchises. Twilight, 50 Shades, Hunger Games, Divergent. You can argue the quality of those franchises, but they were original stories that aimed for a female audience from the get go. And they were much more successful than trying to remake established franchises to be more feminine.
I suppose it wasn't good enough that women had their own things to watch and men had their own things to watch. Everything needs to be made for women to watch and men can make do with nothing. The funny thing is, based on audience numbers and box office numbers, these remade franchises don't even seem to interest women.
Studios aren't even trying to make the next Hunger Games-like series (aka a new franchise based off a popular female book series) The studios seem content with twisting a squashing established male franchises rather than trying to make something new that would genuinely appeal to women.
I’ve been waiting for a video like this, it’s been so obvious over the last few years
The Goodnight Kiwi will never be the same. Amusing use of that old footage though.
I appreciate the New Zealand clips in general though. We usually see all the American stuff. Probably few people will know the New Zealand ones but it's a change of pace (also, those drink driving ads are too ridiculous not to mock).
I don't recall Dern and Neill's characters being in a relationship. Was one even implied???
Yes.
Well done, sir. I celebrate every word of this video. The pendulum swings, and I feel there will be a return to interest in men’s sensibilities soon, now that the monetary failures in film, television and gaming are now counted in the billions.
Here's a slightly interesting perspective on things. Possibly. Watched Burt Reynolds in 'Hooper' yesterday, an astonishingly entertaining film from 1978. I was in my teens at the time and was absolutely enthralled by it. Now here's the interesting part. How the women were depicted in this classic was totally exceptional! Stood out like dog's balls in the environment of today's 'entertainment'. It took me back to the days before woke when casting was casting and not catering to agendas. Pure entertainment with hidden homage for the cinema purists. Easy 9/10.
The dialogue of this video = 🔥🔥🔥
As the Marquis de Sade said “I suspect you have a touch of a poet within you” 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Wow trevor chappel bowling the infamous underarm bowl takes me back.
2:22 My favorite of all the "Jane You Ignorant Slut" moments.
It's not just the women... The men who sit back and allow this to happen also should be blamed
Your thesaurus must be immense and very well used!
Those statistics you quoted show what equality really means.
Thank you for an informative and enjoyable video.
Also one of the space witches with a speaking part was played by a trans actor. I'm fairly sure the same actor played ki adi mundi in the show.
Yaaas sound off queen 💅🏼
The problem is that they were invited in with the chance to enjoy these things equally. Then equality happened and they found they did not like it. At that point they decided that they must be the ones to define what is the most understanding way for a piece of media to be presented.
You think equality happened?
@@SeekSomethingMore I didn’t make my point well. What I mean is they had equal opportunities, but that meant effort which for them meant seeing the true quality of their work. Since that means they would never succeed they took advantage of the initial invitation to change everything so that the only products on the market are ones they made.
It's. All. True.
at a certain point they have to lose enough money that these losers finally get fired...
Laura Dern, despite her misgivings about the age difference, took the money. You know what that makes her….
Conservative White Women >>>>>>>>>>>> Liberal White Women
Fellow whites
Excellent work, and if you want to know why they can't make good male protagonists and masculine characters look no further than the lego study.
You just need to look at the Hugo and Nebula awards since 2000.
A genuine lol at 5:13, bravo sir.
The twenties might go down as the period when society was the most egregiously wrong about itself in history
The sad thing is that none of this HAS to be bad. Star Wars, rings of power, etc, all could have been good and entertaining, even with their disproportionate women cast, but these hacks completely blew it by making all the wrong decisions. You can have all the diversity you want so long as the story is good, but these people were just too concerned with stroking their own egos.
Firstly I love the little kiwi. It's so cute lol. Secondly, I'm not a big fan of newer books cause most coming out are a copy and paste of something else. Like when you copy someone's homework but change it a lil bit so you don't get in trouble. Even the damn covers are starting to look similar. Fantasy and romance are the worst offenders.
It's the AWFL curse.
As long as we're in a free market, any unaddressed market demands will be filled by alternative options. Hollywood is collapsing on itself and the demand for good stories and entertainment will being filled by foreign movies, anime, even RUclips. I suspect the same will happen with literature.
As a gamer and a Canadian, I deeply apologize for the existence of Sweet Baby Inc.
Nah, they're not Canadian, they are from Quebec. Also known as the leeches of Canada.
Great stuff. However, if you expect one synapse-fire of self-reflection from the target demographic on these issues, you’ll be waiting some time.
Men and women are complimentary. Creating entertainment with my husband has been an interesting journey. We discovered we need each other to write something we'd love to read. Humility is what makes you grow as a creator, not arrogance. Characters in a story just grow intuitively. I don't care how many x and y are represented. Art should be a matter of the heart first, not of pushing rational agendas and messages.
I whole heartedly disagree that "The force awakens" was in any way, shape or form a "serviceable entry". It was loathsome. The absolute best I can say about it is that it had a pretty decent setup at the beginning of the movie for the protagonist.