Part 6/8:
Personal Preferences vs. Industry Trends
The author admits a personal bias: they enjoy watching male characters doing “cool stuff,” whether it’s Tom Cruise flying jets, Luke Skywalker fighting robots, or Tony Stark working in his garage. They emphasize that there’s nothing inherently wrong with women or female characters—they enjoy them too, as long as they serve the story well.
However, the core critique remains that Disney appears overly fixated on who is represented on screen—as if gender is a primary determinant of a project's success or failure—sometimes at the expense of storytelling quality. This preoccupation, critics argue, detracts from creating genuinely engaging narratives and reduces characters to mere tools for virtue signaling.