Various nuggets of interest in this survey of Gen Z and millennials

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    9 months ago

    Red flags come in all sizes. A potentially small one is: “I’m not willing to sit through a dumb but harmless movie even though my partner wants to see it.”

    A bigger red flag would be “I refuse to see The Barbie Movie because it’s woke!!!

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      9 months ago

      Yea, especially since the strong negative prejudice against that particular movie has mainly come from sexist reactionary political commentators

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        9 months ago

        Well, there’s a certain subset of loud, gullible cretins out there that apply the following tests to see if something is “woke” and they should hate it:

        • Does it espouse or support anything that’s not hardcore, regressive social “conservatism”? E.g “LGBT people exist” or “sexism is bad.”
        • Do “the libs” (real or imaginary) like it?

        If the answer to any of those 2 questions is “yes”: the thing in question is “woke”. The Barbie Movie is 2 yeses … so apparently it’s “extra woke”.