I wonder how HBomberguy feels about his video being used as a cudgel to attack any kind of minority representation in media.
What is with this debate and people taking literally the most uncharitable interpretation of anything that's said in incredibly kind, mostly-agreeing disagreement? I'm not attacking "any kind of minority representation in media" just because I'm pointing out that people should be less totally uncritical of faces of billion-dollar enterprises coming out and making completely benign feel-good statements, that's it.
What I'm trying to state outright is just this: Movies aren't politics, politics is politics. I support social justice causes and most of the people involved, I don't think what Brie Larson is
wrong, and RLM using the word "bratty" hit me a little wrong in a way that I think is gross, but these movies are not something people should be this emotionally invested in one way or another because they're just movies. It's genuinely gotten scary how long these arguments go on for. They'll be forgotten in a few years - there's superhero movies every time you turn around now, they come out about as often as Titanfall 2 goes on sale. Diverting any
real energy into this kind of thing I just think is misplaced if not genuinely emotionally unhealthy.
At the same time though I don't think RLM is particularly egregious on this topic and at best makes misplaced comments tied in with some language ("bratty") that they should cut down on, but the opening framing of this entire situation was incredibly disingenuous - RLM didn't spend 15 minute unhingedly ranting about the evils of diversity, they just kind of whined about Larson being sarcastic. They shouldn't be put on the same standard as the genuine lunatics of YouTube that made video after video talking about how Larson is an evil SJW and called for a boycott. So the fact that this thread basically got nearly 20 pages off of like a two minute conversation where the worst that happened is they were weirdly condescending to who is a pretty good actress is just totally wild to me when the hbomberguy video in question got almost no traction here at all when I first read about it.
I think people are too happy to fly off the handle these days because the world political situation sucks and everyone wants to turn all their personal interests into political signifiers - because that's something you can change and have a direct impact on when you otherwise feel powerless to stop, well, fascists. People should be cautious not to turn what they spend most of their time arguing about in relation to politics to be so superficial - because yes, that is actually what these media corps are also quite happy with, not to mention the actual fascists themselves.