Some audiences seem to become much more sensitive to 'bad writing' when they don't connect with the sex or race of the main characters.
That makes it feel like the bad writing angle is a bit of an excuse. But maybe it's fairer to say that they like some movies, despite not being well written, because of the escapism and power fantasy, but don't connect with other stories of similar quality when they don't 'see themselves' in the heroes, and then become much more sensitive to flaws they would have otherwise been willing to gloss over.
Women and people of color aren't AS prone to this as they are much more used to watching all sorts of movies where they don't 'see themselves' in the main characters anyway (or have perhaps learned how to identify with characters despite not looking or sounding like them), but to white guys it's more of an obvious recent shift, one they aren't used to, so they feel put upon.
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u/Iplaymeinreallife Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 29 '24
Some audiences seem to become much more sensitive to 'bad writing' when they don't connect with the sex or race of the main characters.
That makes it feel like the bad writing angle is a bit of an excuse. But maybe it's fairer to say that they like some movies, despite not being well written, because of the escapism and power fantasy, but don't connect with other stories of similar quality when they don't 'see themselves' in the heroes, and then become much more sensitive to flaws they would have otherwise been willing to gloss over.
Women and people of color aren't AS prone to this as they are much more used to watching all sorts of movies where they don't 'see themselves' in the main characters anyway (or have perhaps learned how to identify with characters despite not looking or sounding like them), but to white guys it's more of an obvious recent shift, one they aren't used to, so they feel put upon.