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Batwoman is cultural appropriation

czmtzc

October 10, 2019

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Title	Batwoman is cultural appropriation
Author	czmtzc
Upvotes	2
Comments	5
Date	October 10, 2019 12:29 PM UTC (6 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MGTOW
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[–]DangZagnut1 point2 points3 points 6 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link

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[–]DangZagnut0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

Piss poor writing and once again, assuming SJWs actually watch TV.

I wouldn't really call it cultural appropriation. I mean you can, but you have to stretch the definitions a bit.

Every culture and religion on Earth has the concept of heroes and Gods and such, some male, some female, usually tied to a virtue of come kind.

One could say that, from the "hero" standpoint, they were more tuned to being war heroes and more in line with males, since males do all the fighting. So there's some identity there.

Women have their own heroes, usually in line with fertility or love or various passions. Most aren't really front end fighters.

Batgirl/batwoman/etc. are just what they are. They were originally about appealing to girls in the first place, and still generally needed to be rescued at some point.

There's nothing wrong with a female superhero, the problem is women tend to not be into that kind of thing. I'm sure many are, but in general, women tend to not be as violence oriented as men, unless they know they can get away with it. So their draw to violent heroes is minimal.

I'm not sure they replaced Batman, Batgirl/woman is a thing. And from the reviews I've read they've failed at engaging an audience. That's the problem with the lesbian angle. They could make a gay batman or a straight batgirl, but trying to make too many changes simultaneously almost never works unless it's a spoof.

It will probably fail. I don't think there's that many people who care that much about a lesbian batgirl. It's not that you can't do it, but you have to radically change the character from what they're apparently doing with it.

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[–]DangZagnut1 point2 points3 points 6 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

I think they need another name for what you're describing, where they gender flip or sexual orientation flip a concept within a culture.

Cultures are usually at a more macro level.

Boys liking one thing and girls liking another thing isn't so much a "culture", but that's just a personal opinion. Culture usually is a combination of religion, taboos, morality, lifestyles, history, that kind of thing. The problem with zooming in culture to a level like "gaming" culture or "knitting" culture, is you end up just going all the way down to individualism.

I have no idea what you'd call what you're describing other than "get woke go broke" culture, which seems popular these days with companies.

That is a problem I notice. Every time the SJW move goes to flip a character gay or female or whatever, that becomes the most important aspect of the story, not good quality writin or character development.

If you really want to push a gay/woman/minority thing, you have to make that the least important part of them, if your message is really "it doesn't matter", but of course, they're incapable of doing that, because to those people, all their care about is intersectional group identity only.

They can't create new original characters because they lack any creative ability. They have to talk over something else.