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Thing is: People used to just do this kind of stuff, thus normalizing it. These days, every fucking marketing department will drum up all the "hype" it can muster because LoOk At Us AnD hOw PrOgReSsIvE wE aRe! We DaRe To ShOw WhAt ShOuLd Be JuSt NoRmAl PeOpLe! We EvEn HaVe OnE oF tHeM hOmOsExUaLs AnD a WoMaN!
Yeah, congrats. I'm not complaining that we get female lead roles or homosexual romances or trans people or anything. I'm complaining that having those becomes the sole talking point about whatever medium they are in, and I'm complaining that while boasting how things have female leading roles, those female leading roles are written exactly like the dumbest male leading roles but with a woman portraying it. Think about it. The equivalent to Rey in Star Wars would be something along the lines of Silvester Stallone wielding 2 M-60-Machine guns while simultaneously mowing down nondescript Asian people in a nondescript and defintely not Vietnamese Jungle... Can I have lead female roles where the women are granted the right to be real fucking people for once?! You know... like women in real life who - and this has been scientifically proven - are real people?!
How dare people fantasize in my space fantasy!!!!