Or how some (mainly a small vocal minority) were mad that Ken wasn't gay when he consummated his relationship with Toka in Tokyo Ghoul. Even though it was pretty obvious from the start that she would be his love interest.
It's a shallow push for "diversity" because of the need to look "progressive" above all else (And no offense to true progressives). Even if that means destroying the integrity of a story. Well I for one find it insulting when they push a character trait such as race/gender/sexuality because usually that that makes the character devolve into being about that 1 trait.
It's probably more Yaoi shippers who just like to see guys do it than some political agenda.
And while I agree making a character is more important than pushing for a specific type of person, I've seen people overreact just BECAUSE a character is of a certain type. After the fall out with Ghostbusters 2016, I've seen comments of people decrying Wonder Woman as SJW propaganda before it came out (even going so far as to say giving women the right to vote was a mistake), and so far it's the best received DCEU movie. Likewise, people complained that the DCEU's Aquaman is not some blond Anglo-Saxxon guy but a Polynesian (a very BADASS polynesian), again making claims about a progressive agenda. But trust me, Jason Mamoa was one of the better choices they could have gone with. I mean, if they made Aquaman look anything like his SuperFriends incarnation....would you watch it?
And now people are thinking Captain Marvel is going to suck because it stars a woman and is co-directed by a woman, despite the fact we don't even have a teaser as of yet. Completely forgetting that a man is also directing it, and given Marvel Studios track record thus far, it feels they're panicking over nothing. Heck, when Black Panther came out, people screamed it was anti-white (despite it having little to do with white people and having the main antagonist being another black dude) and even posted photos claiming they were beaten up by blacks for seeing the movie (the photos turned out to be police photos from various assaults years before).
It's happening again with people complaining over She-Ra, thinking she looks like a man, specifically highlighting her arms (if you think those are manly arms, you seriously need to do pull-ups) and think just because the show-runner is a lesbian (I don't know if this is true or not, but this is what is being claimed) it automatically disqualifies her to write a straight female. Again, when we don't even have a trailer or any idea what the story's going to be like.
This is not to say you can't dislike any of these; there probably will be reasons for you to dislike any of those things I mentioned, and that's fine. Maybe Captain Marvel and She-Ra will suck, and we should say so, just not because of some perceived socio-political agenda we think is being pushed on us.
Pretty much.
There was before a lot of us can remember or even been born called the "Religious Right." Ask some of the youtuber in their 35-40's about it, and have them screech in you ear about how they the worst thing to ever existed. Apparently they are a major reason why American nerd culture considers itself liberal. From what I understand they were groups that existed between 1950-2000 concerned about new media, and the possibility of children seeing inappropriate content: such as drug, sex, or worshiping Satan. Every media needed to prove that they were not doing that, and then create some sort of age rating system so parent knew what was safe for their kids to watch. Eventually these groups fell out of practice for one reason or another.
A lot of the older nerds have convince themselves that the Religious Right were going to destroy all forms of entertainment that they completely oppose any right leaning idea, and support any left leaning idea. Of course this makes them reluctant to admit or outright deny that the new censorship group has formed on the left; SJW.
The Religious Right was a real thing. To be fair, there were many groups pushing for what could be shown or written, but the RR had genuine power in politics. What Batman was doing or what anime we were watching was probably not high on their list, but it was occasionally brought up. We still have politicians blaming mass shootings on violent video games rather than actual problems today.
And the whole "threat" of SJWs is WAY overblown. If you go on Youtube, you will see hundreds of videos of various nerds complaining about SJWS, but almost nothing directly FROM SJWs. It feels like maybe 1 or 2 people say these really liberal things that are too much even for me, but it seems I have to hear from secondary sources about their ridiculous claims. As far as I can tell, these SJWs haven't changed kitten. We're still getting video games with sex and violence, we're still getting cool movies, etc. I'm not saying it can't be a problem, but as far as censorship goes they have failed miserably. If anything the alt-right still seems like the bigger threat, as they harass actors who are part of a project they don't like and got James Gunn fired over bad jokes he made years ago that aren't a reflection of his true character just because of him stating his own opinions on things.
I probably shouldn't have gotten all political here, and I apologize for that, but I haven't heard of any form of entertainment being taken down because of either side of the political spectrum (at least not in America).
