What's sad, is all I can think of is the power vacuum that will be ravaged by social justice, and the inevitable bastardization and corrupting of Lee's creations.
I stand with what Stan Lee said. In my years of being a fan of pop culture and entertainment since I could friggin crawl and work the VCR when I was a toddler to wear out my favorite movies on VHS tape, I have always stuck by keeping established characters as their original race, gender and sexuality. I am a fan of that character regardless of their gender, race and sexuality because of their personality and journey, however their identity is WHO THEY ARE. Their traits should be left intact.
There is talk about changing Indiana Jones to be a woman, we already have that, her name is Lara Croft. I grew up playing her games as a kid, my sisters and I loved those games, not because we’re female, but because they are fun games, she is a character in her own right and yes it reminded us of Indy. But to us she was never a rip off of Indy, she stands well on her own. What I like about new characters is the many cross-over ideas. Indy and Lara team up? Yes please.
These slactivists like to go on and on about how important identity is and wield identity politics but in their stupid farce of “fighting the status quo” they believe only white straight characters identities are interchangeable.
If some asshole were to suggest to change Black Panther to be anything than black - I would stand with the fans to protest that.
If some asshole were to suggest change to Captain Jack Harkness to be straight - I would stand with the fans to protest that.
But when it is white straight characters that these bigoted feminist SJWs target it is “controversial and racist, sexist, homophobic” to protest changes to the character’s identity.
See, this hypocrisy is all one needs to see to know the SJWs, these post modernists that rather butcher other people’s creations than make their own to put their message/politics across (that is post modernism for ya) are full of shit when they claim to be fighting the status quo and for minorities.
When they do try to make their own characters, they fail to resonate because all they focus on is what identity group they are from. That makes it hard for people outside that group to relate to that character. SJWs and feminists make it all about the character’s gender, their race or sexuality, Which I find is sexist, racist and homophobic because these activists only see them as a token of a collective (through the SJW feminist lens, which means they are poor fragile victims), not an individual.
They prefer the easy, lazy route of changing established characters because it gains them the following, name/brand recognition and they don’t need to create a personality. These activists love to deconstruct and revise, they like to destroy instead of create.They think “compelling stories” is to invert everything the character stood for, examples: Luke Skywalker being turned into a coward and Captain America being revealed as a hydra agent nazi.
They are not fighting the status quo, they are pissing off a lot of core fans that have been there since the start, and they’re politicized escapism and making it harder for new minority characters because there are people now that expect them to be some a token or political propaganda mouthpiece, instead of a new character. And that is a huge problem. Bravo, activists, good job. They alienate and berate fans and then complain when no one watches or buys their crap. That is regressive “logic” for ya. get your activism out of entertainment. Get active by creating new stories and characters. Or BTFO, hacks.
Their shaming and attacking and smearing people who call them out on their bullshit, or fans that just don’t choose to watch their useless remake/reboots/re-imaginings is unwarranted. Problem easily solved: create new characters and don’t make the political ideological bs priority one above character and story. Someone else mentioned the other day that with the internet and free market it is much easier to use word-of-mouth to get independent content noticed, if mediocre stuff like Twilight and 50 Shades can do it then we’ve all got a chance.
Another reason they want to put “women/minority characters” (token characters) is as usual, they are using women/minorities to be the propaganda tools in their entertainment/ far-left propaganda. Because when fans call that shit out the critics and feminists SJWs can then shut down fans by calling them racist, sexist, white supremacists, nazis, bot, trolls, etc They can’t do that if the characters were white men, white men are not a protected group. They pulled this with Ghostbusters2016 and they pulled this shit again with The Last Jedi. Notice they couldn’t exactly pull this tactic off with Solo’s bomb at the box office.
They are bashing Stan Lee because of what he said, for standing his ground. Because he doesn’t agree with changing established characters. They are HIS characters. And the fans of these characters don’t have a problem with the character the way they are originally created. Only the post modernist SJW feminists do. They are the bigots here, they’re so intolerable and it goes without saying but I’ll say it anyway we know they hate white people and straight people. Especially straight white men. They need to get the fuck over it. Stan is not at fault. And neither are the fans that love and accept the characters as they are.
