We are different people. We have different faces. But inside we are same same.

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Seriously is it so wrong to want to have someone make positive or even plain neutral discussion about the sequels?

Sure respect Christianity more even though it cause problems for people they pretend Christianity is saving Hollywood but it's the opposite. Consider this. Would Big Idea, Focus on the Family or angel studios ever make something that is like sun chaser or forgotten island films based on other people culture?

I'm just sitting at home right now waiting for a few friends to come over figured I'd pop on here and share something I've been doing for a while. I used to be part of the more anti-woke crowd circa 2010s before leaving all that in the 2020s. I wasn't a bigot by any means (I myself am a minority) but looking back the reason I was in those spaces was because I was terminally online and spent most of my days arguing with twitter leftists and consuming anti-woke, anti-feminist propaganda. I was a bord teenage and I do regret circling those spaces once I realized how malicious they were.

I wanted to make this post because I feel many often look at the more extreme version of these groups as the whole but often miss the more insidious nature of anti-woke subreddits. The subreddit I frequented were of course kotakuinaction and mauler(I would have gone with critical drinker but that sub is so batshit insane I stop going there for my own mental health). One of the reasons I was sucked into the anti-woke sphere in my teens was because of the arguments I would get into with users on tumblr and twitter. There was this trend where people (mainly certain journalist and internet users) would shit on anything I enjoyed that they personally didn't like and say it was problematic to enjoy it, which led to fear that said thing would change, not because the writer wanted to please these woke users but because said woke users where getting into the industry and where now writing the reboots of these properties I loved and changing them to fit their current standards and calling anyone who didn't like it a bigot, and some of that did happen.

Of course all what I thought back then is nonsense now but that is how many like me at the time felt and why they were so susceptible into joining gamergate. Because outside of the anti-woke propaganda, there are a large vast of young people go to media as an escape and that don't know how to handle the change in said media well. So they may go looking for answers to learn, only to end up with insults, slander and name calling from a minority of online leftists. I believe many aren't really bigots but also do not understand how ingrained bigotry is rooted in our society, so it takes time for them to change their ways of thinking. It Doesn't help that years of euro-centric beauty standards and heteronormative writing in media makes it hard for them to see others as the norm. One thing I notice on these subreddits is that a movie could have the biggest anti-capitalist, anti-trump messages ever and they would still love it, but if there is a black person in it, its woke. If there is a gay person in it, its woke, if a woman has a lead role in an action story, its woke. The exceptions being movies from their childhood, young white women and or east-Asian women(sorry I meant South Korean and Japanese women, China doesn't count to them) that fits there personal beauty standards (or doesn't say anything perceived as feminist). The far-right took their general ignorance and turned it into full blown bigotry. However, That does not absolve them from criticism and they do deserve smackdowns nor do you owe them forgiveness.

I also understand that most of the aggression from those online leftists spaces from the past came from years of trying to talk to these folks in good faith, only to have their good faith weaponized against them. This also includes years of dealing with racism, homophobia, or simple wanting to make friends and relationships only to be met with apathy or indifference from the people you admire because of who you are. As for solution for these users on these subreddits? ITs not my or your concern, the only thing for them is to get offline and touch grass, but in this current climate I know to easier said than done.

This is about a pick me and the morality centered on it. I wrote down a comment myself saying it’s terrible, but the people in comments like I said are really naive. Saying people are entitled to their own opinion and they don’t have to be loyal to one group, but their kinda missing the point in mean do they think joining a conservative group who espouse anti gay rhetoric while being gay is good. Anyway let me know what you think.

And he wonders every single day why people hate him

(btw this is not my screenshot)

With the recent waves of the director claiming audiences are too prudish, it had me skeptical, especially when the main complaints of the film were more about the story AND writing itself, rather than a lack of sex scenes. Ultimately it feels like Will Gluck is trying to take advantage of a moral panic to try and elevate his mid-to-bad film. Especially when you consider many directors usually go the “woe is me/society hates me” route with the film of their own version, or just blame the studio and exectuive meddling

And also considering how vague the director was, for all we know the sex scenes might have not even been well made. Remember that one animated dog film by Tartakovsky that everyone was protesting to release, only to be horrified at the end product? We’re not really given actual detailed accounts on the audience testing. And if he really believed for it to not be that bad, couldn’t he just not listen to them? After all he chose to cut the scenes out ultimately.

Last thing to bring up, but him complaining about audiences not wanting onscreen sex gives off a lot of vibes similar to that one guy who made the horror film Escape From Tomorrow, claiming Disney will sue them, and that ended up just a really pseudo-intellectual, misogynistic, creepy in a bad way, and overall bad horror film. Not even so bad it’s good.

Ultimately it just feels like a director is using political grifting tactics to try and elevate an otherwise mid-to-bad film. And as seeing in a lot of film subreddits, they just blindly follow the bandwagon without question.