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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Female here I can’t speak to other things but I can definitely say my young son is not seeing boys on tv being role models. Everything is geared toward girls now. Characters being changed to female all the time. It’s ridiculous to swing so far to the other side so all I can show my son is old tv shows or movies with a boy lead. [/quote]

Why cant you son look to female role models?  Girls have had to look to male role models for years!  My nephew an avid skier just wanted a famous woman skier because that is his role model!  If you are showing him old stuff he will get thr ideas that only white men can do stuff and save the day.

Your son wont break if he is shown women or POC as lead actors!

I hate when someone says it had "swung too far the other way"  where we were you when yhe great white male way was the only way?[/quote]

It's not lame as hell. Representation matters (as the one other PP demonstrates through her lamenting her son doesn't see enough boys in his shows). Watch the old movies and TV. I still love them but they are cringey as hell. And definitely do NOT represent across all spectrums. You had your token woman or black person (it was the rare production that wasn't like this). And I know, in the 70s, I def wondered why there wasn't more women / girls depicted in certain roles.

If you think representation doesn't matter, it's probably b/c you haven't experienced it on any significant level. 200 years of white, male, (I think all Christian) presidents and vice presidents, for example . . . . and some folks lost their minds over a black president and now black female VP. The ones complaining are losing their death grip on what is representative of this country.

There have been strong female role models in the media, it's just that the media does it horribly these days and shoves the diversity crap down your throat.  They used to do it better back in the old days.  Evvvvvvvvvvvveryone loves a strong female character like Ripley from Aliens, or a strong black character like Sidney Poitier.  But these days, they do diversity for diversity's sake, and it is lame as hell.  It is phony grandstanding to cater toward an agenda.  Everyone can see through the flimsy efforts.  [/quote][/quote]

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