Yeah what Brie Larson is mostly saying is that women and POC are given fewer opportunities to work in media criticism. She's not ~angry~, she's just pointing out something she believes should change. And while Captain Marvel certainly isn't the first female-led scifi action piece, it's pretty notable that it took over a decade for Marvel Studios to make a movie with a female lead.
Of interest to this thread in general -- Gita Jackson wrote a great piece in Kotaku today (I know not everyone likes Kotaku, but Gita is cool imo) about the abuse she gets as a black woman for writing about race in games, and how people assume she's angry or telling them they have to be offended when really she's just trying to start a conversation about a hobby she loves, and usually she likes the game she's talking about:
https://kotaku.com/what-its-like-to-write-about-race-and-video-games-1832886047
I think a lot of people who get labeled 'SJWs' and get this kind of reaction are really just people trying to talk about something they see as having room for improvement. There are of course wacky extremists in any social movement, but if you dismiss feminists or other social justice advocates as just irrational fun-ruiners you will miss out on a lot of interesting conversation and discussion from people who might just think a little differently than you about a thing (games, movies, comics, or whatever else) that you both care about.
Thanks for elaborating.
Here in Eastern Europe, the sexism in the human resource area is still quite prevalent but there is also ageism and a lot of -isms that are all stigmas which need to go.
On the same token, there are plenty of issues with how close-knit and despotic the entirety of the scene dominating workspaces still is in these ex-soviet-block countries.
For example, several businesses are monopolies or only have limited competition which leads to a flat market in which there is very little (if at all) drive for betterment or even just treating one's customers well.
Women in this environment, according to my own limited observations as well as stories told by many females close to me, experience not just the sexism but the masculine yet childish overall makeup of a strange vassal-capitalistic work-society, mostly comprised of "big brother" figures and their "yes men".
Having spent ample time in the United States I can safely say that there is very little in common with the hardcapped inbred chauvinism of an oppression-ridden society such as the ex-soviet-block and worse places such as the not-so-evolving parts of an all different third world.
Still, there indeed are some figureheads for whom I'd truly wish to instate groin kick as a valid legal response both in your country as much as ours.
Hollywood, as miss Larson and several others, have been stating, is one of such chauvinist spaces within an otherwise well endowed and thankfully majorly sexless job-market that is your country and I fully agree that women need to be given the exact same opportunity as men.
What I don't agree with, is how several very human aspects of humanity are treated by some prevalent American views, among them sexuality (of both men and women), violence, human emotion and death itself.
For first, somehow violence is fine but talking about death or sex in their truest and most human forms is somehow taboo according to these views, unlike in other parts of the world.
Next, somehow there are derogatory terms for very important and intimate human interactions and behaviours.
If you have strong feelings about something, you're "emo" or "mushy".
If you pour your heart out, you're "ranting".
If you have sex appeal and play at it, you're "slutting".
If someone's mother died, "deepest condolences (but don't get any on me)."
Finally, people like this may ask how you're doing but they'll be in a hurry if you actually tell them how actually you're doing.
You can only be fine.
And this, on the same token as people getting discriminated by age, sex, skintone, religion, nose size, hair colour or any preference, is not fine.
I feel that western society is trying to be so "politically correct" and focus on "equality" that the Institute of Equity and frankly, Humanism itself, is becoming lost on so many people.
TLDR People need to worry less about specific topics and just be excellent to one another / stop running away from the most human aspects of humanity while sanctifying superficial and meaningless, parroted and often fake ideals.
