Star Wars: Fighting space Nazis
Superman: protecting people from Lex Luthor; evil billionaire
Star Trek: Post scarcity society where all humans are treated as equals and nobody “gets” to be a billionaire (Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism)
Doctor Who: had a woman Doctor once
Marvel: “Evil is bad, how about let’s not genocide” (ignoring the billionaire worship w/ Iron Man)
X-Men: always been an allegory for LGBTQ+ and disabled folks
RATM: I mean, it’s in the name.
Starting to see a theme here hmm
Babylon 5: Fighting Earth fascists. Hey, wait a damn minute…
Doctor Who: had a woman Doctor once
Also Rose, the first companion of the new series was constantly showing the viewers the working class’s perspective throughout all their adventures, and fighting for those people at every chance.
Then there are also characters like Dr. River Song and Madam Vastra, who are always shown as strong women who can fight their own.
Also the second companion, Martha, was a black medical student. One of the best companions too, up there with Amy and Clara if you ask me. Wish she’d gotten more than one season.
Agreed. Definitely wanted to see more of her.
She’s in quite a few episodes of Torchwood, I think maybe a main character in one of the final seasons even
New Who has always been woke AF I don’t know why they minimized it so much in the other comment. Like, yes the main doctor is almost always a white man, but the show itself has often (and even more so in recent episodes) had a clear “woke” agenda. And I’m not saying that in a negative sense. The showrunner for much of it was/is a gay “absolutely happily left wing” man ffs.
Edit: also, this thread talking about strong female leads jn Dr Who and not discussing Donna Noble is just wrong.
I always thought X-Men was about civil rights…
Yeah it’s an allegory for racism and civil rights.
https://www.history.com/articles/stan-lee-x-men-civil-rights-inspiration
Idk if it’s in the comics too, but in first class or some movie, Magneto is depicted as a holocaust survivor. It’s in fact a big part of his identity.
It’s in the comics too.
Figured as much, just haven’t read them myself
Doctor Who: had a woman Doctor once
Don’t forget about the wokeness of the 15th and 16th Doctors.
Star Trek: Post scarcity society where all humans are treated as equals and nobody “gets” to be a billionaire (Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism)
Everyone’s a billionaire in Star Trek. But oddly enough, everyone is controlled by a huge naval organisation.
Nah, most of humanity at least is either living idyllic lives, or chose to live on a frontier world or research station or something. Starfleet’s just the exploratory arm of the Federation; but that’s where most of the fun stories are!
They all woke up facing the monster.of fascism.
I just watched Alien (1979) and the damn democraps made it woke. When I was growing up in the 80’s not everything had to be a social commentary. The cops saved people like in Robocop (1987) and the terrorists were stopped like in Star Wars (1977) because America are the good guys. MAGA!!
I liked RATM, but then they became political. No thank you.
Yeah, why can’t they go back to their namesake, being a reference to the Matrix!
You just repeated the same maga comment you can find in any thread anywhere ever. What are you guys smoking?
It was a joke…
This is a post-joke society
Eh, it keeps me going. I think I’ll continue.
This is a post-pointing out what kind of society it is society.
I like this. Thanks.
You’re welcome 😁
This isn’t reddit, you have to identify sarcasm all on your own, without the /s
I know that context is sometimes hard to discern in text, but good god that was an obvious one.
I liked Motörhead but they also became political like 4 songs into their first album
With a name like Lemmy, I would have never expected it.
At least they never went full Motörhead.ml
I’m not familiar. What happened?
I liked Bruce Springsteen, but then even he became political!
I liked the dead Kennedys before they got all political too…
I think you can like Kid Rock, I don’t think he’s woke yet.
um, didn’t they break up a long time ago?
They should have been Rage For The Machine!
Hey, now that sounds like a nice Christian band we can all do some toe tapping to!
toe tapping
Is that one of those weird sex things they do instead of intercourse.
Yes, through a hole in a sheet. At Cracker Barrel.
i honestly find all of these sex replacement things rather funny. it definitely shows some creativity
For real, “soaking” while the other “abstinent” couple jumps on the bed to bounce them around is a good one. Mormons and promise ring culture is so fucked though.
umm… could i have more details, please?
I’m shocked to learn that the band that wrote Wake Up might possibly be woke!
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Actually yes, they changed. Dr Who literally changed sex and race.
He has always changed personalities ever since the first regeneration in the 60s
But that isn’t what I said, now is it.
too many people nowadays are brainwashed by public media. we have to somehow get people off facebook
It’s funny cuz it’s woke
Conservatives are scared of literally everything.
It must be exhausting to be such pussies.
Equally exhausting to live in a world where those pussies make all the fucking rules.
Hollywood didn’t go “woke” you just grew up to be a piece of shit.
but is it really shit if it makes a stockholder a lot of money? /s
Well yeah, they’re all woke now. They used to be woke before too, but they’re still woke now as well, as they should.
It wasn’t woke then, because woke wasn’t made up yet
Woken was first used in the 1930s to encourage black Americans and other minority groups to be aware of the prejudice and discrimination against them by white Americans.
It’s more like the term hadn’t become a catchall phrase for the right to dismiss all forms of injustice without having to engage with the actual issue.
It’s especially pathetic seeing European right wing politicians use the phrase. It’s always fun to challenge them to define it because they can’t.
Actually woke is good now because they “defeated” it so now it’s counterculture and therefore cool to be woke again. I don’t make the rules.
Woke here and Woke there ~ Unfortunately, today’s society is becoming increasingly Woke.
It’s more of a shallow, faux-woke pandering
Maybe, but then these franchises were woke originally too. RATM also had a song about police being evil in… 1992. Superman’s biggest villain was a billionaire.
To be clear I don’t consider woke to be a bad thing unlike the person you replied to.
I guess The Shining was anti-woke since the only person to die (other than Jack) was the black guy.
All woke and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Little babies getting their feelings hurt. If only they could read and understand that woke is a form of being awake/aware and their self owns by making fun of it is blatantly hilarious. Only the media and the right get all up in arms over woke, the rest of us just call it reality.
I reckon there is right wing propaganda to normalise vitriol and de-empathise the public to pave the way for full fascism. Many of these accounts complaining about supposed wokeness are probably bots.
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