A year and two days late, it seems.
But really, this is my objection to all this woke culture we're seeing lately. It's like these franchises didn't exist before 2014 or something. So characters like Ahsoka Tano, Captain Catherine Janeway, Laurie Strode, Princess Leia, Sarah Connor and so forth seemingly either never existed or else their pre-2014 incarnations don't count or something.
And, of course, anybody who questions why everything has to be so woke all of a sudden is implicitly accused of [insert ism or phobia here]. Not because the person making the accusation sincerely believes that but because that's the only way to shut the discussion down. Although, for everything else, I guess there's always banning.
It's all so tiresome.
Hey, you know the character Ahsoka Tano!
Here is the thing: Fourth Wave feminism is a different concept from the first three waves. The first wave was for political equality. The second wave was for economic equality. There is some debate about the Third Wave--most generally it's considered the spreading of the First and Second Waves beyond Western nations.
But the Fourth Wave is the "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" wave. And this is where Fourth Wave feminism differs from the racial Civil Rights movement or the earlier feminist waves, or even LGBT... civil rights: The intent is not equality or getting a piece of the pie, the intent is to take the whole pie.
The enemy is the Patriarchy, which must be demolished. All territory held by the Patriarchy must be conquered. All towers built by the Patriarchy must be occupied or toppled. All males are enemy, therefore all males must be eliminated or emasculated.
And that is what you see in feminist media. You won't see strong women and equally strong men, you will see strong women and men who are either villainous or feckless. If there are stories with both heroic women and heroic men, Fourth Wave feminists will simply ignore them because
those stories don't dismantle the Patriarchy.
Males in a Fourth Wave feminist story are portrayed as over-the-top stereotypes like blacks in racist productions from the early 20th century. I see very clearly what they're doing, because I've seen it before.
Paradoxically, Fourth Wave feminist's idea of the proper "strong, independent women" is actually a mirror of toxic male behavior. If you take, for instance, Marvel's Captain Marvel, the character is actually a 14-year-old boy's concept of a "super hero." She's an overpowered jerk displaying all the characteristics that First- and Second-Wave feminists said women should not represent.
They will say, "Turnabout is fair play" when you call them on it. However, that proves the point: Turnabout is never fair play, turnabout is just taking revenge by knowingly committing the same wrongs.
