It's no new trend in the recent decade where Hollywood and the movie industry at large, portray male characters to be either weak, cowardly or both. And the female characters are the saviours of the time. She-hulk is maybe the most apparent stunt the movie industry has pulled on this feat. But In it has been in effect since.
Here is Elon musk's commentary on The new Rings of power show.
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Before you begin to scream 'you're a sexist and whatnot. I am not against women taking up Heroic roles. Sure we have many heroic women in the world we live in. But the belittling of men for the glorification of women at that is insulting.
The radical feminist will hop on the train saying men belittle women too. Some Feminist elites put it this way, "the era of a knight in shining armour saving a damsel in distress is over". But is it? The Russian-Ukraine war is still ongoing. How many feminists are fighting for women to be compulsorily drafted for war same as men, So tell me who are the Knights and who are the damsels in distress?
The only area this lie has not made its way to is our war movies and show. And I won't be surprised if it does in no time. Imagine a Veteran returning home after 2 to 5 war tours of seeing hell and peeping through heaven for the women and children of his country. Attempts to chill out watching his childhood favourite superheroes and picks up she-hulk. Unless you tell him it's just a joke, he'll be pissed.
My second question to the Wok community is this, should equality be a fantasy or a reality? Because the front they portraying now, like Good CGI, it's eye-worthy, but it's not real. "If we all know it's not real, why even talk about it?" you would ask. Sadly, in a time and age where gender is a social construct, we prioritized animal lives above human lives, and the future of climate change is more concerning than the present predicament of the Poor and dying in the world. A world where being too much of a man is a problem and being less of a man is praised. I think craps like this need be called out, such that those who care to know be remembered that the world our movie industries are selling is sheer fantasy and shouldn't be assimilated at face value.