re: #177 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The phenomenon of fandom toxicity is under appreciated, I think.

Star Trek
Star Wars
Tolkien

All these creative landscapes now have vast numbers of obnoxiously toxic fans who crap on anything.

Now a non-trivial portion of this is truly incels whining about “wokeness”.

It’s knee-jerk reactionist nonsense.

But I wonder if the deeply troubling changes in our society have forced many young-ish males to truly feel emasculated. They feel a need for manhood but the old ways are now not available for them.

Given how insanely woke Star Trek has been over more than half a century, they should…. find something else to watch.

- It was the only show Martin Luther King Jr. let his children watch because it was one of the first shows with an important African American character. Hell, he even persuaded Nichelle Nichols to stay on the show.
- It had an Asian helmsman as a major character who in real life had spent his early life in a concentration camp in his own country.
- It had someone from the Cold War enemy as one of the main characters.
- It had a biracial/bicultural character.