Funny story, I actually knew a girl who wanted to be one of those WY scientists. She'd be one of the ones that survived a Xeno outbreak on one of the colonies and becomes "bad ass" and shit. I believe I was in middle school at the time. She would find that preferable over the space wizards surprisingly.
I mean I'd LOVE to be on a deep space exploration mission like in the Alien universe. I wouldn't want it to be the Alien universe itself, because that entire setup is hostile to all humans in a population larger than 1. But yeah pretty much any scifi story, with interstellar exploration, FTL (or equivalent way of surviving long trips), has got a fundamental buyin from Little Happyninja in kid form, and adult form really. They lose me at the "and then everyone got their entrails ripped out" bit.
And yet, she remains blacklisted. Same with Sandra Locke. Another name that never gets brought up. In fact, let's make a comparison. Sinead O'Conner criticized the Catholic church and was proven right. She's still blacklisted. Sandra Locke's only crime was having a falling out with Clint Eastwood, yet we're all very quick to forgive and forget what he did to her. Gina Corano claimed to have it as bad as Jews during the Holocaust on social media because people told her to wear a mask and that trans women are women and Disney decided that was bad for their brand and PR so they fired her from The Mandalorian.
It's not JUST that Sinead was weird on SNL 30 years ago. It's that she's consistently behaved in a way that isn't very "mainstream friendly" She's changed her name and adopted a new religion, dresses like a nun, or at least looked like she had on a habit in a thumbnail I saw of her in the last few years. She is fairly mentally unstable, which in itself isn't a problem, but when your crazy is in a form that isn't "oh that loveable looney" and is instead "holy shit are we going to have to call the cops?" (Kanye West for example), people don't really care to hear what you have to say, AND the media doesn't want to burn profitable airtime on a non-profitable trainwreck.
Translation: No one gives a shit. Which is kind of my point. The outrage over cancel culture is selective and arbitrary. Especially when people are saying there's some kind of time limit on whether or not it counts.
Obvious people are going to care more about what happens now rather than what happened 30 odd years ago. They'll also have their own spheres of interest which they will focus on. That's just human nature.
If it's not going to matter then it doesn't matter. Why get riled about something that isn't going to matter.
You do realize I despise the catholic church for its positions on science, and technology, and China. I am focusing on policy, I literally post on every thread about progressive policies like the 15 dollar min wage, public option because it's a gateway to m4a, I am also a part of multiple civic groups like Our Revolution, Justice Democrats, and Moveon.org. What groups are you a part of?
Since you asked so nicely, Justice Democrats. I maintain however that dancing to the right wing tune about cancel culture is a distraction and you're falling for it.
So 80% of Americans are stupid. Tell me something I don't know. And do you think those 63% are more afraid of a left-wing mob blocking them on social media or some wingnut with a gun deciding to make things violent? I'm cautious about where I express my political opinions specifically because the people who disagree with me are spoiling for a fight most of the time.
I think it's harmful for popular culture to let a small group of lunatics on social media have this power. It's not great for creativity if people are too scared to express their opinions. Think of the YA books that have been cancelled before release, for example.
Most of the things happening today aren't going to matter that much to another generation 30 years down the line. That's life. Doesn't mean that people around today shouldn't care about these things.
You're gonna have to name them, because I don't read YA fiction.
Again, you're just attaching a scary name to something we've always done. It would be far more productive to improve education so our population isn't so goddamn illiterate, media or otherwise.
Except that's not what she said at all........... It's what people have chosen to read into what she said but you won't find tweets or posts saying anything of the sort from her.
Or people barely know who the hell they are at this point to begin with
I know of at least one just cause of the stir it caused.
This is the same industry where women and/or people with non-"white" names frequently adopt pseudonyms to get published, right?
Corbyn's downfall wasn't done by "a small group of lunatics on social media", that was done by vast media conglomerates running around the clock.
Yes, although had he and his team not been so flagrantly amateurish about dealing with it (as they were amateur about so many other things), it wouldn't have been so bad. I mean, in the USA, AOC is super-progressive, but comes across as laser-sharp politically as well. Corbyn and team team had the air of people striving to win a student union presidency, not national leadership.
It's now more genre specific than anything in the world of books but YA tends to have a lot of female authors now. I mean A LOT. Also quite a number of POC authors too from what I understand.
I mean it wasn't even that the really sunk him. I mean his party has been all for weaponised accusations for years. What sunk him was a number of senior figures in his own party working to stab him in the back. Don't believe me? They literally ran two sets of election ads and used facebooks targeting system to make it so the adverts Corbyn wanted were only shown to Corbyn and his inner cicrle while the adverts the other non Corbyn supporting figures wanted were shown to everyone else including the general public.
I mean I think this time it's sticking because this is more than people just mad at the Black Widow stuff (which is part of why he apparently was removed by Disney from Marvel).
AOC being laser focussed is kind of a joke considering her mounting series of gaffs.
I don't think the AvP movies are really at fault here.
