> My main objection to this really started when I saw the short "Out" listed prominently on my kids Disney+ account. Its an animated kid friendly short detailing how to come out to your family.
I hate shit like this. It's just pandering to progressive parents who will sit and watch that with their kids. No kid under 9 or 10 is concerned with coming out (or at least they're a very tiny population), and in middle school liking childish things (like twee Disney shorts) is cringe as hell, so they're not watching it. It's all about parents being able to give themselves backpats, which is stupid. Or Disney employees who want to pack themselves on the back for being progressive enough.
Like just from an audience standpoint, it doesn't make sense?
"Or Disney employees who want to pack themselves on the back for being progressive enough"
I think this is the main driver of much of the fault in current society. Not Disney employees but people on the extreme of both political spectrums who are relatively few in number but very loud. They take over the conversation and speak so loudly that everyone else is afraid of objecting for fear of being cancelled or made fun of. Social media has made the issue 100x worse. The majority center who for the most part just want everyone to get along have lost power. Everyone wants to tell everyone else how to live and force their opinions on the public. I just want everyone to be able to live happy quiet lives. This is not a comment hearkening for the return to the "good ol days" as I know that being gay or black was a hundred times harder a few decades ago. Today its no longer ok to be not racist, we have to be radically anti-racist. Its not ok to be pro gay people having equal rights, we have to be be for openly advocating for transexuality in schools. Its all exhausting.
Both filter bubbles suck. Being a mid-30 something lesbian is great. I either get to hang out in spaces that yell at me for being a degenerate or ones that yell at me because there are aspects of gender theory I think are bunk.
On the left, it's not just that you have to be anti-racist, you have to be anti-racist in the right way. On the right, you can't just be anti-taxation; you have to be all in on Trump and ranting about illegals and drag queens. They both have really offputting authoritarian strands, and a large portion of them get angry if you leave the bubble.
It's tempting to lay all the blame on social media's feet, but I spent a couple of years immersing myself in legal theory for work and I think we're letting Congress and our politicians off too lightly. They're all playing to it and lending it legitimacy because it's easier than actually helping their constituents, in the same way it's easier to focus all their energy on getting elected instead of governing.
I hate shit like this. It's just pandering to progressive parents who will sit and watch that with their kids. No kid under 9 or 10 is concerned with coming out (or at least they're a very tiny population), and in middle school liking childish things (like twee Disney shorts) is cringe as hell, so they're not watching it. It's all about parents being able to give themselves backpats, which is stupid. Or Disney employees who want to pack themselves on the back for being progressive enough.
Like just from an audience standpoint, it doesn't make sense?