Sssooo... The Democrats want men back. Disney Studios wants men back. Videogame studios that catered to the "modern audience" are closing down. 

Is it still considered sexist and inaccurate to say men were alienated and pushed away? Cos stats and shareholders seem to agree.

A 9-point drop in Democratic support among young men (46% vs. 55% in 2020), 

Disney’s recent push to re-attract Gen Z men, as reported by Variety on August 24, 2025. 

Examples - “Concord” Game shut down after 2 weeks; $400M+ loss.

“Suicide Squad” Sold under 1M copies; $200M+ loss.

Most recently the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 gameplay reveal trailer on YouTube, (more sci-fi than DEI to be fair but still appealing to the modern audience rather than it’s aging male fanbase) showing 383k dislikes vs. 53k likes.

This is all very cathartic for the guys who were accused of sexism for saying the same thing 5 or ten years ago - these games and movies and politicians and overt hostile agendas are pushing us away. But it’s deeper than this.

They do not care about men, or mens mental health or well being. They care about votes and MONEY. The people who were insulting and bullying men with “I don’t care about men’s mental health” X posts would be bullying women and minorities if it was socially acceptable to do so. They’re not really activists who care, they’re just bullies with a socially acceptable victim.

It was trendy to insult cis white men for a few years. But that won't last. 

You need cis white men to vote for you, buy movie tickets and videogames... not to mention prejudice is amoral even if you're not cis white or male doesn't mean you get to be prejudiced. Pendulum swings.

I like having a diverse cast. I like strong female characters. I don’t like my favourite characters getting sidelined, Luke Skywalker getting nerfed for Rey, Indiana Jones getting nerfed for Phoebe Waller. But I loved Princess Leia, I loved Marian drinking guys under the table. They were strong but they were not infallible, they talked down to the men occasionally but they relied on each other and worked together frequently. 

As a black man with gay and lesbian friends I don’t hate women or minorities. 

But I don’t want my beloved franchises to be written by the likes of Lesley Headland who hates me cos I’m a heterosexual male. I don’t want the Jedi to become a proxy for the patriarchy she feels oppressed by. It’s selfish of her to destroy something beloved by millions just to make her irrelevant point. She needs therapy, not a job making Star Wars to express how much she hates men.

I’m going off the point. What’s the point?  The Democrats want men back. Disney Studios wants men back. Video game studios want men back. So is it socially acceptable to say they’ve been pushing us away now? Cool.

Now are they going to course correct? 

Unfortunately nothing will change overnight. It’s been trendy to insult men for years. It’s been okay to discriminate against them for years. It’s taken undeniable market forces and the loss of billions of dollars for them to even admit that it’s happening. 

If Disney is looking for new IPs it sounds like they’ve given up on Marvel and Star-Wars which is both sad and kinda scary. 

The Democrats will try but they don’t really care and decades of social conditioning won’t change over night. It’s probably still trendy to insult CIS white men at a Democrat function.

Politically I think we’re likely to get an independent party to replace the Democrats but it will covertly be more fascist than the Democrats or Republicans. That’s the sort of thing that usually happens, the corporations that hold the politicians purse strings make the rules of the game behind the scenes. We’ll never have a party that represents the people in this environment. 

Games with manly men and sexy women continue to sell well, despite Concord failing games studios continue to force DEI games on people with effeminate men and quite frankly ugly women (it’s okay, I’m not insulting real individuals they’re fictional. More to the point they often use attractive models then uglify them so men can get no joy looking at them so I’m not insulting individuals.) The stubborn game studios will continue to force these games on us and we’ll continue to downvote the trailers and not buy them I guess.  

So it’s socially acceptable to say Disney pushed young men away from Star Wars and Marvel now, it’s socially acceptable to say the Democrats pushed young men away from their party now, it’s factually accurate to say Sweet Baby Inc has ruined games and gaming now. But I don’t think we’ll see real change until it becomes trendy for there to be consequences for discrimination against men. And I mean social consequences, not just bankruptcy. 

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