[ SECRET POST #6385 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6385 ⌋

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Comments

[azurelunatic]

Social issues here is topics about various kinds of discrimination and hate. The specific issues are generally whatever people are working for justice about currently. For example, allowing transgender kids to take hormone blockers so they don't go through the wrong puberty, letting them get haircuts and clothes and a name appropriate to their gender at school. Or racism, that's a perennial topic. Various people yell that they don't want to read about racism or transgender or anything "woke" in their happy fun place. Sometimes this comes from a reactionary place; sometimes this comes from a place where someone is already dealing with these issues in their real life and they don't want to have to think about it too hard while relaxing.

One of the specific fandoms where this happens is Star Trek: how dare you have an unapologetic autistic-coded core character. How dare you imply that expensive healthcare drives people to get money however they can, including being complicit with terrorists. How dare you say that drone strikes using missiles of unknown composition on a peaceful low-tech village is unethical. Can't we go back to when Star Trek was all about space battles and monsters and heroism ... and the first prime time interracial kiss, the stupidity of racism, ethics in dealing with suspected genocidal war criminals, and the first prime-time same-sex kiss? Because Star Trek has always been poking at current day prejudices and comfortable attitudes.

I don't know The Boys, so I can't speculate there.

[(Anonymous)]

The Boys is remarkably unsubtle about how much it enjoys punching down at right-wingers. Homelander's thematic journey owes a lot to Trump.

[(Anonymous)]

As far as The Boys go, I don't watch it but my husband does, and the social issue of that show is (I think) showing up corrupt people in power (or in this case with powers) and how society responds to them. Recently I know a new season has started and there seems to have been a wave of people going "Hey, they're making fun of us," where Us is generally Trump-followers, TERFs, GamerGaters, and other groups of people who complain whenever science fiction addresses issues like bigotry and class warfare, regardless of whether or not it's been baked into the science fiction since it started. (See above re: Star Trek.)

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ayrt
Thank you!