Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
If the defenders of the show hadn't used every single Intersectionality Bingo Buzzword they could come up with prior to the show being released and then started squealing about the show struggling BECAUSE it was woke and it was the damn mouthbreathing fans that were to blame, you're absolutely right that the 'woke' tag wouldn't have hit it so hard.
It's CREATORS did that to it.
Substantively it's almost benign compared to some of the shit that Disney rolls out there, at least when it comes to being woke.
It was just trash. And as is often the case when these folks make a trash product that nobody likes, they start blaming close-minded fans and touting how diverse and inclusive their cast/story was and how that was just too much for people.
It's more of an excuse than a stigma at this point. It didn't suck because it was woke - it got called woke because it sucked.
It felt that checking certain boxes was more important than putting out a good story. Had the story come first far fewer people would have had issues with the “box checking”. It’s a thing that Disney at least seems to be doing too much of these days and that is pushing a message instead of pushing out quality products.
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