I think Houseman is talking about it alienating non-progressive. Because everyone knows that we should only make media for them, in case they get offended
Because there's a bit of a difference between allegory and just writing strawmen to take shots at.
It's cingey either way and will age badly also it often leads to awful storytelling.
Here's some panels from Captain America Secret Empire and Tumblr users getting a little offended and wanting it not to be allowed to be pulished
I'd hope it's not a game anyone wants to play or play the "Well we control the media now so nah shut up" when it will swing back round at some point and then what?
ITT Goodfaithman is equating progressive with blatant racism and expecting us to treat them the same ig
I mean Alex Rider the TV series by Sony pictures did manage to make a Black Woman Nazi..............Also removed a Black woman from a position of power and instead had her be essentially a Nanny instead...............Plus other changes
"Get Woke, Go Broke' is a reactionary statement to gay/trans/females etc. being in media. Because, god knows, the only people who are allowed to be in movies is white males. Otherwise a bunch of people get their panties in a twist. The artist aren't trying to do anything, its outsiders coming in and saying, "I dont like that."
No it's a statement towards that being a core part of the property pushed in a "slay Queen" manner generally painting people as Strawmen or creating a female character who is always the superior.
Miles wasn't made out to be Spiderman's better, he took over from Spiderman who had died and was shown as having some struggles to start with.
Compare that to Jane as Lady Thor who magically got powers no other incarnation had ever had not even a literal high classification female mutant who wielded Thors hammer in the past.
America Chavez was written as being the one to punch Hitler and history being racist credited Captain America for it in the recent America Chavez series.
It's the difference between Martha Jones (who had her own problems as a character but still) in Doctor Who and Bill Potts who every episode had the line "I'm a Lesbian" or "Well I am black"
Because in the vast majority of games (not to mention movies) it's still white, straight men as the protagonists. Something the non-white, non-straight non-male community has pretty much tolerated without too much if any vocalization, because why would anyone listen to them, right? But now that a small percentage of games and movies dare to veer away from white, straight male protagonists a certain segment is utterly losing their shit and getting super racist, sexist and homophobic about it. Almost like that's what they always were, but never had to reveal since the odds were always (and still really are) in their favour.
So there's your contradiction; decades of the LGBTQ community not uttering a word over the lack of (positive) represention in media, a slight shift, a small step at maybe a course correction, and certain people turn into rabid baboons.
Also technically if we include all films released the majority of films have a white female lead......... Indie horror movies released onto streaming tend to like their "Last girls"
hell there's an entire genre with about 1,000+ games on Steam where ~85% of them have female leads, and no it's not porn or oddly enough horror.
Hell part of the issue is people yelling tend to yell at big franchises to cater to their whims.
E.G. the last big push to make Bond a woman happened while hilariously at the time Atomic Blonde was in cinemas and next to none of the people pushing for a female Bond said a thing about it.
Also there kind of has been a sphere of entertainment with quite a bit of LBGTQ representation but very few people tend to bring it up
Also the issue of pushing representation over specialised demographic appeal means you get the Rise of Skywalker lesbian kiss in the background instead of an award winning series called
Queer as folk or a somewhat underground hit like
Sugar Rush (I don't expect anyone to know the later series but you might know it's sort of spiritual / stylistic and tonal sequel, Skins). Not that I have any objection to the Rise of Skywalker lesbian kiss but that's where this push really leads a lot of the time when. There seems to be no happy medium as Lesbian Secret Agent in the cold war Atomic Blonde was almost entirely ignore because seemingly she faced opposition and challenge rather than was just far better crushing all her enemies under heel with no real effort.