This show will make your damned heads explode.
That said, if you don't give two shits about that kind of thing, its a well done show with a solid story.
What’s woke about it?
shareThat's why I put it on quotes. Any time a show deals with LGBTQ issues, racism, misogyny, or has a competent female lead, there's always a post complaining about how its too woke.
sharenothing, it's just an interpretation of a story.
shareI just didn’t get the comment. The OP sounds like he hates complainers about woke shows but then suggests they stay away from this one because it’s so woke their heads will explode.
shareWell "woke" complainers are always (faux) enraged when something that they claim to be sensitive about happens in a movie or a show (even when they don't) and declare that they would not have bothered and so on and so on.
So the OP is tipping them off so they can leave everyone else in peace.
Looks to me like he’s just contributing to that scenario by trying to instigate complaints about wokeness in a show
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People who are tired of woke BS aren't assholes, they're just smarter than you. I don't know if this show is woke or not. The accompanying picture shows a mixed-race team, which is very unlikely for the 1940s. If they get into LGBT issues, as one poster has suggested, that is a ridiculous anachronism. If I ever end up watching the show, my damned head won't explode, but my eyes might roll a bit because of the historical inaccuracies.
shareNot too smart, since that picture doesn't actually show a mixed race team. Teammates typically don't wear different colored uniforms that don't match.
And I hate to break it to you, but people were definitely gay and transgender even in the 40's. What would be out of place is if people were out in the open about it, which definitely isn't the case with this show.
Cool, since I loved the movie I'll have to check this out.
shareThat's the thing, the show shares the name of the movie but that's it for similarities. the original movie was joyful. it celebrated baseball and the women's league and it touched on many notes. it was feminist without having to push it in your face every 5 minutes.
shareI think there are more similarities than that - especially via the characters who're clearly mimicking Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell's characters. It's being more overt with its feminism because it's allowed to be - it isn't a film and it isn't a Tom Hanks family classic that sees a dirtbag like Hank's character was get a redemptive arc. It's finally allowed to say, baseball wasn't just about having fun for women, there was a lot more social context that shouldn't have gone ignored in the original because it was intrinsic to why so many women showed up.
I'd actually say the original movie was pretty emo, not full of joy, especially regarding Lori Petty's character and to an extent Geena Davis's character. And it's a lot more realistic in some ways, which is something people often complain about regarding "woke" films. The women aren't all models except for one or two, there's the acknowledgement that African-American people existed, and yes, there are gay women, because women in sports was seen as odd and therefore sexual dysphoria would've been common.
That's fine, if that's the story you're telling, but it has nothing to do with the original movie "A League of their own". Not to say that this is the only time a franchise has been remodeled to fulfill an agenda.
The main problem with these woke agenda movies and tv shows is basically that you're preaching to the choir. It becomes boring very fast unless you only go out and see two movies a year. How many racists are going to tune in and watch this show? How many racists will watch star trek and other movies that pump a woke agenda? It's just redundant and it's the same damn note every single time. Only the instrument changes.
No offense meant, but I honestly don't know what you're saying. I really don't. Are you saying TV shows should do a better job of catering to racists as well as POC? Idk man.
shareI don't write in Haiku.
I mean stop with the pointless preaching and focus on storytelling. Step on some toes. Take some chances. Make women fallible. Make visible minorities fallible. Stop stunt casting minorities in traditional white male roles. it's not needed.
But they are stepping on toes, isn't that the whole problem? They're doing something not typically done, which is why some people are offended? Also, if you've seen the show, you know plenty of the women are fallible, plenty of the POC are fallible, the men aren't villains. As for "traditional white male roles" can't say those matter much in a series about women's baseball at a particularly sexist time in history. The whole point is to reconsider traditional gender roles; but it's not excluding traditional white male characters while doing so, so there's not a lack of those in the series. And it is telling a pretty good story. You can do that without white male main characters.
shareWhat kind of asshole are you then? The lib type?
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