r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation peter?

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u/dragon_sack 1d ago

Bad writing

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u/SmoothActuator8132 1d ago

that's the actual answer but it's not OOP's answer

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u/Stormfly 1d ago

Sometimes it's a problem where a character will be a minority/woman/etc and the show will have genuine problems... but people will assume all of the criticism comes from racists/sexists.

Then you just argue in circles about whether it's genuinely bad or if people just hate women/BIPOC/LGBT, etc.

Recently I saw a post where a woman influencer was criticised for her actions and many people claimed that a male influencer wouldn't face the same criticism.

It's stupid because I've seen so many people talking about how the culture war is a smokescreen for the class war and yet people eat it up.

No gender war for me, thanks. Only class war, please.

Uhhh of course you'd say that because the upper class are all men!

Sort of "Are you a bot or just influenced by them?" responses.

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u/No-Slip8489 1d ago

Unfortunately, the studio execs are going to see this flopping and think "we can't have diverse leads," instead of "our whole release plan and the way we're creating our interconnection universe is flawed."

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u/SinesPi 1d ago

Nah, they use women and minorities as shields for the bad writing.

"We don't suck at writing, it's only bigots who don't like the show!"