- cross-posted to:
- movies@lemm.ee
- cross-posted to:
- movies@lemm.ee
007 last appeared in 2021’s No Time To Die, starring Daniel Craig, but Jeff Bezos now has creative control.
007 last appeared in 2021’s No Time To Die, starring Daniel Craig, but Jeff Bezos now has creative control.
No, I get it. It’s been repeated ad nauseum for decades at this point, so it’s hard to miss.
“The monolith of white characters in media is problematic, sure, but don’t change any of them. That would be ‘wrong’ and ‘ruin’ them for all the white people that like them the way they are. Make your own characters and keep them separate. That way nothing gets ruined, yeah?”
Or, in short:
“Diversity is OK, but only if it doesn’t touch ‘my’ media.”
Look I don’t exactly care myself, so you’re not arguing with me. But I see what people are saying and like it or not they have a point, and the backlash that’s happening is not exactly unpredictable. You don’t make a whole lot of allies by saying “I refuse to understand your point of view and you’re wrong for thinking it”
I do understand it and they are wrong. They don’t “have a point”. They just don’t like the idea of not being the defacto archetype and lash out at anything suggesting change, pretending to offer “reasonable” alternatives as if that’s not just perpetuating the same problems. Like I said, it isn’t anything new.