DallasTeleAg said:
Lol... this thread is hilarious. All the same arguments from both sides. Someone makes a criticism citing something the left-sided thinkers bristle up about, so those people attack the others and claim they are intolerable simply because they gave their opinion.
Personal attacks are then responded to because the left-sided thinkers can't believe others don't appreciate personal attacks. The people responding to the personal attacks are then accused of being trolls and being argumentative.
We even have the old adage, "it's just fiction, bro. Why can't you suspend belief?" Just about the most ridiculous argument to anything because it's basically conceding the point but saying it's okay because it's just a story. If that's the case, then you can't criticize anything about the story because it's just fiction.
Again, it's hardly ever the critique itself. It ultimately doesn't matter to me if someone thinks the actress probably wasn't right for the role, or even that a woman might not be in charge. For the hundredth time, it's the WAY in which their opinions are expressed, as if whatever happened in any given show/movie is The Worst Thing To Ever Happen. It's outrage for the sake of outrage, usually with a tinge of virtue signaling to boot. We were having a normal, constructive back and forth until aTmAg and a couple others did the usual thing of having to let us us know just how aggrieved they are. They weren't simply "critiques." It was performative outrage. And then just like always, you come along to play defense attorney for them by giving a distorted view of what actually happened, as if somehow above it all. Rinse and repeat.