The Woke Generation - Fighting Back

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I don't know, I just hear people criticize it, so that is why I am asking, to get more specifics on the issue, and see what I am missing .

Oh okay, that makes sense. Well as far as my judgment goes I feel that the woke generation is sexist to female characters in fiction, but I am not sure if it is intentional or not. Basically when people say things, like female characters need to be treated with more sensitivity, innocent, and perhaps even prudishness, compared to male characters, it just feels sexist, because they feel that women are sexual innocent creatures, and cannot sexually be portrayed like how male characters can be.

So it just comes off as demeaning to female characters therefore for me. I don't know if it's unintentional and maybe people who believe in the more woke idealogy feel they have people's best interests at heart? Now I don't know if it's just male people in the woke community who have to be sensitive towards the characters or if it's female as well. Maybe the female writers, feel that they have to get on the sensitivity wagon, because of low selt esteem perhaps and feel they need to be treated sensitive compared to male characters because of something like that? I am not sure. I don't know the why, but to me it just comes off as demeaning, if that makes sense.

Oh okay, that makes sense. But why are women bothered by it when men are not when it comes to the sexualizing of male characters in comparison? Like when male characters are sexualized, men aren't bothered by it but women are bothered by it more. Are they more sensitive about it, compared to men?

Oh okay, and I totally agree that women should not be pidgeon holed that way. But when you say forcing an unfair decision that isn't asked of them what would that unfair decision be?

It is just like how if a woman sleeps with a bunch of dudes, she is seen as a slut, but if a dude does it he is not. Usually if he sleeps with a bunch of dudes he is seen as gay, and that probably has its own stereotyping, but a man being with a bunch of women is seen as a winner.

Just generally this can be parts of thought experiments of if you gender flipped characters if it would be seen the same. Would general audiences really have the same reaction to a gender flipped James Bond movie?

If we really want to get into the reeds, we are probably going to have to talk about perceptions of power of who gives who receives, but just that generally men are shown to be in a more powerful position of sexuality. Women are more likely to be judged by how hot they are. This isn't saying the reverse doesn't happen, just that it is much rarer.

Even still, there are some ways to make a sexy character in control of their sexuality.

Oh yes I see what you mean and I do not agree with the double standards at all. But I feel that if writers, give into the social double standards, than female characters will not be able to come into their own. The attitude of writers shouldn't be that a female James Bond will not be accepted by most so why bother. The attitude should be, we need to create a female James Bond and brake the mold.

Because if no one in the woke circles of writing is willing to break molds, and they still want to stay inside the judgment box, then women in fiction will not get ahead in the game therefore, or at least that what it seems like to me. Just because society has bad apples that have their double standards, doesn't mean that the art, should not progress beyond the double standards as a result, or so I feel.

I just don't feel the art should suffer, just because of some social bad apples in real life, who aren't even the audience for that art anyway.