Traded one for the other eh. I still haven't watched that show; I always preferred stuff from the UK, which has their own problems as a viewer like us
Pretty much every popular American media franchise, from films to television programmes to streaming and comic books, has firm roots in heteronormative oppression & the best you ever see for representation is surface-level. There's always backtracking to bigotry & appealing to the lowest common denominator. You can't expect any of this shit to be truly intersectional or free of discriminatory elements.
Examples of surface-level representatives:
"Here's a black woman on our film, you saw her right? We're not racist or misogynist." "Here's a gay man on our show, you saw him right? We're not homophobic." "Here's a trans man on our show, you saw him right? We're not transphobic." "Here's a nonbinary pansexual unicorn on our show. You saw them, right? We don't kink-shame."
It fucking never ends & it's all for you to buy their new shiny bullshit next time.
This is the design that gave me the itch for a screen printer at home
good bot
cw: lots of bodies, soldiers walking by
I celebrate the fact that I had too much a sense of self-reflection to enlist. I also celebrate the fact that many of my ideological enemies are KIA or traumatized by the unnecessary carnage they cause in the name of selfish imperialism, & get exactly what they deserve. Most people in the military just want to shoot the brown kids they couldn't shoot in their neighborhoods as children, only realizing the weight of murder when it's too late to reconsider.
Y'all hurry up n' bankrupt yourselves now, ya hear?
I WAS RIGHT
I knew someone who claimed to be nb & were also orthodox. Then I found out she was baiting queer women & doxxing them regularly. Why she tried anything on an AMAB idk but she got mad that I figured her out.
I can think of some great ideas for subterfuge & propaganda by the deed if you had a job at wherever these are made, but I'm gonna keep that to myself.
I'm pretty sure this happened to my last two exes, & has a big part to do with why I'm staying single indefinitely.
Edit: adding further to this, it's also happening to my family members, who I've grown more estranged from every day for several years.
If I had a penny for the number of days in my life I've struggled to propose a sensible way for a government to entirely abolish advertising & marketing, I'd have well into four figures in savings.