Well, this thread is a dumpster fire. I wondered whether to stay silent but maybe this is a good opportunity to speak my mind.
@NikoBellic, let me preface by saying I am very conservative, so I sympathize with your concerns. I get it. What America is doing to itself right now is pretty hard to watch. You love your country and are angry at what’s happening, especially after cringe anarchists were permitted to tear down national monuments and set up their own no-go zones. The level of anti-patriotism coming from the hard-left and their enablers is pretty unbelievable.
But this is making a mountain out of a molehill, dude. Culture is downstream from politics, so for the sake of the argument let’s assume you are correct and Hulk and Thor and so on were emasculated because of leftist bias. I’m afraid, so what? Such portrayals in media are going to be inevitable when folks behind the popular culture think that way. This is their way of baiting you and if you take it you end up proving their point. You are going after the symptoms, not the disease. If you want change, than you’re going to have to get to the root of the problem and understand the disillusionment with traditional roles. Be the change you want to see and make your own media which reflects your values. Or, if you don’t think you have the talent for it, than at least find creators who you agree with and support them. Complaining about it won’t change anything.
You are, quite frankly, being a knee-jerk reactionary and tribalistic. You can’t just push your worldview around and not expect people to push back. I’ve seen this before: Anti-SJW communities are founded by people of many different backgrounds united in their shared mutual dislike of SJW’s, but they end up devouring themselves because of too many partisan takes. People leave, extremists fill the void and than that community becomes irrelevant. And then we wonder why SJW’s seem to keep winning, at least on the cultural front. SJW’s eat each other too, but that kind of cannibalism is a type of social tyranny they use to keep each other in line. We don’t do that, but each of us here has to value intellectual diversity in order to stay together, which is the kind of diversity SJW’s don’t value. We won’t win in the end if we keep trying to ram down a single point of view.
Politics is not just simply “left vs right:” Both sides are divided into many different factions that are at odds with each other almost as much as they are against the other side. I believe a lot of liberals are generally good people, I just find them staggeringly naive on a number of issues and it is a colossal, malignant moral failure on their part for not keeping the Communists in check and letting them dictate the conversation (not to mention China, but that’s another topic). And you can’t just simply insult and dismiss people because they contended with what you said; you may not always be right, and they may know something you don’t.
Geeks & Gamers was founded to endure this little revolution of the cultural imperialists and try and preserve true geek culture and gatekeep the posers. It’s one thing to take an interest in mainstream politics to better understand why this is happening to us, as it’s certainly a consequence of the greater political shift. But you have to be careful not to get swept up in easy narratives, lest you stare into the abyss and become what you hate (this is what happened to Billy D. Usher of OneAngryGamer. Five years ago he used to simply oppose censorship. Now he’s a genuinely racist clown no-one takes seriously).
I’m kinda of going on and on, but my point is that people are complicated and you are being biased. It is quite remarkably easy to become a possessed ideologue on either side of the aisle. Right-wing zealotry is a thing and that’s not really a path you want to go down.
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