I work in corporate finance and I've worked for women my whole career. I have never heard of anyone catcalling or being catcalled in my life. When my wife and I watched the scene, she said "wait, what year is it? Who catcalls anymore?"
That's not saying it's not preaching. That's saying "it's preaching but I agree with the message."
I don’t agree with you, but leaving that aside, this can’t be the sort of thing people dislike about, say, Strange World, which doesn’t feature any explicit commentary of this kind. That’s why I asked my question: What exactly about Disney’s recent animated movies can be construed as “preaching”? Is representation alone the supposed issue?
I was responding to a post telling me that "high salary traditional male dominated job" is where these issues would be most pronounced, and I'm saying I've never seen it in exactly that environment.
You focus on cat calling? I agree that doesn’t happen much anymore (but then again Tony Stark still did this in Iron Man 2 so not that long ago) but everything else said after it totally still happens and was my point.
The issue (or at least, my issue) is when a myopic focus on representation comes at the expense of quality storytelling. There are content creators for whom the representation is the entire point. She-Hulk is a "girl power" superhero show that exists for the sole purpose of there being a "girl power" superhero show. Nobody bothered to consider if the characters were likeable, the dialogue made any sense, the story fit within established canon, etc. All they cared about was ticking the boxes.
1) Happens literally all the time in any big city or any time a woman exercises (runs) outside. Woman I dated most recently gets beeped at at least once a week walking the barely 1/4 mile to the running/walking greenway because she has a dump truck.
Not sure of your age or your wife but having 2 adult daughters in the finance world this nailed the cuture on the head. Catcalling no not-in the office by co-workers but walking down the street, always and espeically when their alone. Man-splaining on the daily and if you push back your being agressive. CONSTANTLY being called "sweetie" or "honey" by older male co-workers. I'm sure it's ment to be sweet, they think they are the father figure, but they should ask themselves would they call their male counter-part Sweetie.
So in living memory of every adult on the planet, including a lawyer in New York.
Ignore the troll.
I haven’t seen Strange World yet, so I’ll base my comments on Lightyear. Like many others, I thought it was a really poor movie. The story was weak, the pace ponderous, and the overall concept uninspiring. Yet a good deal of the criticism I was hearing centred on the film’s supposed “wokeness”, as if the diversity of the characters were the issue. This, I would say, is what constitutes a myopic focus on representation, and not what you’re pointing to.
"Single millennial women with a college degree in major downtown metropolitan centers" is an extraordinarily narrow target demographic, particularly for a genre that skews heavily towards boys and adult men.
They were dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century and don’t seem to realize that we’re well into another century of further progress.
You just told us that you really enjoyed Ms. Marvel, even though you’re not a Muslim girl of South Asian heritage. One doesn’t have to directly identify with the protagonist in order to feel a rapport with them or the show.
Kamala Khan didn't preach Islam. Jen Walters did preach fourth-wave feminism.
