Asklemmy

Because men are babies.

Why do men complain?

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There's a huge monster attacking the city, it blasts a building and it's about to crash on a group of people. A female superhero flies in and starts rescuing people and placing them out of harms way. Quickly she gets to the incel who stops her with a hand gesture and says "I'm okay I'll wait for the male superhero"

Maybe it's not being female led that's the problem, it's Mary Sue's that I think people are tired of.

Can’t help but feel like you’re mansplaining how women are underrepresented and that your favorite female led shows and movies should be more appreciated and men are cancers.

It really is very simple. Well written shows and movies do well. Good actors/actresses make a well written movie better. It doesn’t matter if it’s men and women. I’m no expert but the majority of female led movies are poorly written and the actresses act bad but that may be because of the writing. That also doesn’t mean there aren’t good female movies that do well.

Where much of this marketing goes wrong is the studios try to take something that’s male led and change it to be female led. That will obviously not go well for an audience that preferred the male led material.

I’m male, I’ve never complained about this. I think it’s not good to generalize everyone

Patriarchy.

Privilege and with it an overinflated sense of entitlement, which result in the most fragile of egos (E: see downvote ration lmao).

That's at best.

At worst, and on top of the above, is conscious and deliberate misogyny and the unwillingness to give the privileges up.

This is the teeny-tiniest tip of the iceberg, but it sounds like you are willing to challenge your views and perceptions, so jump in, it (E: patriarchy, misogyny, feminism, intersectionality, and on and on..) is a terrifying, but also extremely well documented rabbit hole, just start looking..

The core complaint is for femwashed stories, where the male lead has been replaced by a woman.

It's very similar to Hollywood movies taking movies from Japan or China and then turning the Asian lead to a Euro-American.

The level of hatred for this type of content is very strong as it feels like a farce or fraudelent, like someone is trying to sell you a fake designer brand item. Everything that made the item great is absent in the fake one.

On top of that, there's a clear fascist takeover in the US from the rainbow liberal, evangelical and social capitalists. Fascists have weird superiority and inferiority complexes including towards women. But don't worry, Chinese movies will become popular soon, so both sides of the US political aisle will have to adjust.

Men are not the only ones that watch movies...There are plenty of movies either female led or majority female but they are typically not very popular amongst women either and consequently don't make very much money

Yes let's pretend men do this and then hurl insults at them all.

First, you’re generalizing males. It comes off as you asking this question rhetorically and in bad faith.

Second, you do realize that movies are for entertainment purposes, right? How many non-activists do you know who watch movies with the mindset of caring which gender is dominating in lead roles or whatever?

I’m a male and I prefer to keep politics out of my escapism, thank you very much.

I could say there are plenty of movies I enjoy that have female lead roles. I could say that there are also movies with female lead roles that I didn’t enjoy. But in the end, would you even care? It’s clear with your post that you’re not really asking anything and just wanted to make a political rant.

Edit: It was fun watching the doots on my comment go up and down throughout the day before finally settling in the negatives. Internet whiplash let’s go. Didn’t realize it would be so controversial. lol

Because we want the story, not the gender stuff.

Sometimes gender makes no difference. But sometimes the author wants to make a point about gender. I have zero interest in points about gender.