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If white male characters being comic relief in movies is woke, why is the opposite only normal and funny?
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Like Thor: Love and Thunder, type of deal?
Personally, I think tokenized comic relief characters generally aren't so funny regardless of whether they're white, black, Asian, Hispanic, male, female, or anything else.
They can sometimes work in sit-coms with laugh tracks since they're so cheesy and over-the-top, but I don't think they work so well in other contexts.
Might just be a matter of subjectivity yet there's always a bit of a cringe factor to me with those.
I think we also live in a really bizarre political climate right now. You know, there are best-selling books like White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo:
>> We have a particular hatred for uppity blacks, those who dare to step out of their place and look us in the eye as equals. -- White Fragility, Ch.6
>> Men of color may also come to the aid of white women in these exchanges and may also be driven by their conditioning under sexism and patriarchy. -- White Fragility, Ch.11
>> Rather, I strive to be *less white*. To be less white is to be less racially oppressive. -- White Fragility, Ch.12
Now imagine trying to write this about any other race besides white people. On top of that, we have prestigious universities teaching in sociology courses concepts like "white privilege", "male privilege", "slim privilege", "cis privilege", etc.
So of course this creates a very divisive climate where lots of people are on edge.
And maybe people have become overly sensitive about the caricaturized portrayals of white males. Fair enough. I am certain that the term, "woke", is at least sometimes thrown about too liberally. But look at the divisive climate.
And of course minorities have plenty of reasons to be upset as well for being reduced to tokenized comic belief. We can look at our history. Again, fair enough.
So maybe we should avoid tokenizing characters in general in such low-brow ways. Or maybe we need a less divisive and heated climate so that we can all find our sense of humor again even in the dumbest depictions. That second solution would be especially nice, but it's not going to happen so long as universities continue to focus on identity politics and best-selling books are published to push the divide.
I should be a comic book hero.
@handsomelad70 That'd be badass!
A bada**, cover boy handsome, genius-level brainy 70-year-old black Canadian lad? Thanks, GuyAnswersGirls123, but I'm anything but a bada**!!!
I don't even understand what you are trying to say.
It's just nonsense speak. 🤔
What?