Pick Me Says Women Should Only Be In Love Stories

[@sophitiaofhyrule]

Important people get erased from history all the time in real life, ESPECIALLY if they were women and/or a person ot color, so it's not unrealistic at all for history to have forgotten about Hera.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

"Strong female characters have always been around, but I only got mad about it in 2016 because I needed those sweet grifterbucks!"

[@Rusticrogue17]

6:33 no woman has ever defeated a man in lord of the rings. Now just ignore the pivotal scene in return of the king where Eowyn kills the Nazgûl

[@TheGreatestJediOfAllTime]

The Witch King of Angmar at that

[@amberinthemist7912]

I am no man! Best line ever.

[@Valivictus]

There were also the way Arwen dealt with the nazguls.... Sure, that didn't killed them but that really took care of the problem until the next movie.

[@Vorian_96]

Eowyn didn't defeat the witch king. He beat her bloody until Merry saved her.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

@@Vorian_96 Merry wasn't a man either. Not to mention Eowyn had introduced herself to Witch King first.

[@TheZombiemofo]

Is she really trying to apply biology to a FREAKING anime? Apparently she had no problem with a man punching a troll to death whilst wearing very little during a blizzard, or being able to open castle gates on his own, when a whole team using a system of wheels and cogs failed. But a woman beating a man? Oh hell no! Not on her watch!

[@lucaswibisono1316]

Applying logic and "common sense" in anime/movie is such a crazy move tbh. I got so annoyed that my friend did that in a MONSTER movie JUST after we finished watching the movie (Godzilla vs Kong fight in the aircraft carrier)....it doesnt make you look cool/smart. But anime? Like why would they do that?

[@TheZombiemofo]

​@@lucaswibisono1316because dumb. I also noticed she didn't seem to have a problem with Jessica easily defeating and subduing a seasoned warrior like Stilgar in Dune, what about biology in that conflict? Why is she not upset that the Bene Gesserit in Dune have a fighting technique that is so strong that even the Fremen and Sardukar envy it?

[@sophitiaofhyrule]

It's 2025 and people are still upset when a woman does something in a movie

[@idreadFell365]

Do I spot another appreciator of Corrin 😮

[@generalsci3831]

"No one remembers her and gives no reasons why." Doesn't Fellowship of the Ring open with The One Ring passing out of *all* knowledge? History becoming legend. Legend becoming myth. That sort of thing? If Middle-Earth can forget The One Ring, I'm sure they could forget about sword-maiden redhead here.

[@Ryu1ify]

Plus I can't imagine Helm Hammerhand stalking through the mountains and disemboweling people with his bare hands like a troll like she described was entirely historically accurate either

[@jojobookish9529]

The real world offers an example in the case of Queen Aethelflaed. She was a badass who ruled Mercia in her own right, but is only listed in the Anglo Saxon Chronicles as "Edward's sister". Official history simply leaving out/glossing over a woman's accomplishments is the most realistic part of the whole film.

[@dracocrusher]

Honestly, that just makes sense. I mean, it's a pre internet fantasy world without that much in the way of magic. I wouldn't be surprised if most people couldn't even read, let alone spread news of world events easily. It seems pretty logical that people would forget about this. A lot of stories that aren't culturally important probably only last a generation or two for common folk.

[@CRSB00]

I find it fascinating that Dune's general message as warning of blindingly following a messianic leader, flies over conservative fans' heads

[@vksasdgaming9472]

Strangely enough that messianic figure was result of female conspiracy lasting generations.

[@brandyfuller2455]

I mean the anti feminist rhetoric about the bene gesserite is pretty front and center. Hilariously when i read dune in hs i was like oh hell yeah this is goals!!! Then i got older and realized it was an allegory for late stage 2nd wave feminism that could only be thwarted if those in their ranks chose love over their feminist ideals lol Not that Jessica and Aliya dont suffer later regardless. Theres a lot to unpack there.

[@alexanderflack566]

@@brandyfuller2455 Personally, I think the best part is that she both hates the idea of women beating men in a fight, and likes the Bene Gesserit. That makes it excruciatingly obvious that she's never bothered to read the books. In a cage match between a sixty year old Bene Gesserit and a professional MMA fighter, I would bet on the latter being reduced to a lump of broken bones inside of ten seconds. Bene Gesserit do prefer to work behind the scenes and manipulate events subtly, but when provoked to violence, they are terrifying.

[@richardmarin2538]

​@@brandyfuller2455And the people on the titular dune that are vaguely middle eastern/asian coded get swindled into blind obedience with like cheap parlor tricks and strong gazes. It's got all sorts of issues, but I like to think Frank was building the best house he could with the tools he was provided.

[@richardmarin2538]

@OP I imagine most of them have not read the books, and the movies are still in the upswing, where the symbolism seems benign and obeying the strongman seems to be paying off.

[@missanthropy6174]

Oh, Mulan wasn’t woke? Mulan wasn’t a girl boss? Mulan didn’t criticize patriarchy? Really? The story wherein a young woman defies societal expectations to get married in order to join the army and face almost certain death to save her father isn’t feminist? The movie where that same woman, through hard work and tenacity become a competent soldier and the most impressive member of her unit and outsmarts her comrades and finds a way to kill almost an entire army of lethal cavalry supposedly supports traditional gender roles? That movie where the heroine faces and defeats a hyper masculine imperialist villain who’s expectations of women are so low that he lets enemy soldiers in because they’re in drag and doesn’t even recognize the person who destroyed his army because she’s in girl-mode isn’t a story about dismantling patriarchy? REALLY?

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

But you see, Mulan was in 90s, so it can't be woke.

[@EliasValadez-pu1iq]

Yeah, and Star Wars which was a criticism about how the US handled Vietnam, had a female protagonist who constantly has authority over the men around her and killed a giant creep who made her his play thing, and is about defeating a fascist government took place in the 80s so that can’t be work either. But boo, Rey knows how to fight Star Wars is so ruined.

[@rac1equalsbestgame853]

@@missanthropy6174 The Alien movies too. Monster goes through trained military men like cheese and stopped by a strong woman. Pretty sure if that was released today people would be all over calling it woke

[@missanthropy6174]

@ alien is even more woke than that. It’s an argument for female bodily autonomy. The alien, (which has a phallic shaped head) attacks people and impregnates them against their will and with no other choice, they die bringing forth the offspring. Everything that happens to a victim of the xenomorph, including the organs rupturing and dying during the birth process, is something that can and does happen to women in childbirth. And it all starts with an assault after which the victim’s autonomy and life are forfeit in order for the xenomorph to have babies. When it happens to real, it’s “tragic that she died or nearly died or was traumatized irrevocably but in the end a BABY was born and isn’t that a miracle?” When what happens to millions of real women happens to the fictional entirely male crew of a spaceship, it’s terrifying body horror and the monster responsible for such carnage must be defeated at all costs (I know, in future movies women get face-hugged too, I’m just talking about the original Alien). I also think it was another intentional choice to have Ripley immediately voice that they should leave the eggs alone and it’s the men who need to keep poking around and investigating. Had they followed the advice of the only woman on the crew and just left them alone, they wouldn’t have been face-hugged. One might even conclude that the men consented to the impregnation. They were poking around, showing interest in the aliens, they wouldn’t leave them alone, gosh it’s almost as if they were asking for it! If they didn’t want to have an alien baby, they should have kept their mouths closed, you know? And sure, the face-hugger attack was traumatic and the pregnancy was painful and scary and it destroyed the men’s bodies, but in the end, they had baby aliens and isn’t that a miracle? Ironically enough, I was at a get together at my boyfriend’s sister’s house, and I was talking about movies with her husband when he said he thought the Barbie movie was good but would be better if it was less political and then listed off a bunch of older movies including alien that he thought were better in part because they didn’t have obvious political messaging. I was like, dude, just because they never said the word “patriarchy” doesn’t mean that Alien wasn’t hella political. But I couldn’t elaborate more because it was a family get together and I got a look from my boyfriend that said “I beg of you, don’t talk about violent assault, brutal childbirth, aliens bursting out of people’s chest, and ab*rtion at the dinner table in front of my mom.” I swear though, alien is NOT subtle but it completely flies over so many people’s heads. And this guy I was talking to isn’t even a conservative, he’s just a normie that apparently prefers to turn his critical mind off when watching movies and you can do that as long as the characters in the alien-forced-pregnancy movie never actually say the word “ab*rtion” or “bodily autonomy” or “grape.”

[@johncunningham2241]

She seems to have forgotten Joan of Arc, a real historical woman warrior, and is even unfamiliar with the Amazon’s. She lacks any knowledge of basic history and myths of strong women.

[@Jack-sy8mr]

Mary Read and Anne Bonny, two of the fiercest pirates of the Caribbean, and ‘oh my god, they were ‘shipmates”

[@vksasdgaming9472]

​@@Jack-sy8mrThey were just pirates in Calico Jack's crew. Julie d'Aubigny is way crazier story.

[@joeb8935]

Joan of arc wasn’t a warrior, not a great example

[@johncunningham2241]

@@joeb8935 she lead an army and that seems like a warrior to me.

[@alexanderflack566]

About a third of the Scythian warrior graves found turned out to be women. Also, if you want one hell of an example of a girlboss from history, look up Queen Amage.

[@Ryu1ify]

"I'm sick of all these girlboss swordfighters who kill men instead of marrying them, but I like the gay witch play"

[@Aryasvitkona]

What if we combined them and had gay girlboss witches who kill men instead of marrying them but also use swords because she's a spellsword? Which I'd love personally

[@teenkitsune]

Using Mulan is such a bad example, that movie was woke AF by these idiots' standards and if it had come out today instead of 1998 they'd be trashing it up and down for being woke too!

[@rac1equalsbestgame853]

The Alien movies too

[@granudisimo]

There's a Darkmatter2525 video, where he describes many of the movies incels use as examples of what they think is a proper female character such as "Aliens", the way those same people would describe them if those same movies came out today, and it's simply brilliant.

[@AshParth560]

@@rac1equalsbestgame853 And the Terminator with Sarah Conner

[@dracocrusher]

Mulan: 1. Literally Transmasc metaphor 2. Shows her as a smart capable woman in ancient China 3. Implies the other soldiers need to be trained to BECOME MEN 4. Mulan saves the day by out-thinking the other men as well as casually out-performing them (the avalanche and climbing the pole before the others) 5. Saves the emperor by GETTING THE GUYS TO DRESS IN DRAG AND DO FEMININE SHIT 6. THE LITERAL EMPEROR BOWS TO HER, THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE COUNTRY 7. Unironically picks her own guy instead of being sent into an arranged marriage, like at the start of the film Everything about this feels so anti-tradwife outside of the one detail of "Well she gets married to a man, sooo...." If anything, the film's so anti-gender roles that it kind-of just turns into a trans story about how gender is meaningless and anyone can be anything socially. Knowing Mulan's gender doesn't keep her from fighting, she can still do man things and nobody even really judges her for it.

[@MiloW456]

And Star Wars, the story that's all about getting over your differences to make the world a better place

[@just_mike_]

The most devious part of this, in my opinion, is that these people constantly use the phrase "shoved in our faces." It implies that its happening without our consent and upsetting, but the reality is that these are consumers making informed purchases about media they want to consume, and are so offended that they didn't partifcularly like it.

[@phistoroboto8419]

Whenever people say women can't beat men in sword fights, they need to really to look into Julie d'Aubigny and how much of an absolute badass she was.

[@AshParth560]

Or Xena, Warrior Princess.

[@spacecat6022]

@@AshParth560 Xena is cool but Julie D'Aubigny was a real person

[@phistoroboto8419]

@@AshParth560 I mean, I guess the difference would be one is fictional while the other is a historical figure.

[@Tazirai]

Women like her just want to defend white male fragility.

[@AzureDragon158]

HEMA isn't gender-segregated for a reason. Women absolutely can beat men in sword fights, and do so regularly.

[@zaff6859]

3:30 okay well we have characters like darth maul who was initially a throwaway villain but then became one of the most consequential characters in star wars lore... like... it's okay when we have male characters who are like this, but not female characters??

[@vrahnkeneisenbach9148]

Imagine a world where, unless it was a love story, it was all male characters. Sounds boring.

[@ilikecookies9796]

Agreed, but a world with all male characters, *including* for love stories, sounds nice.

[@amelaine82]

She gets so angry that not all women in movies are exactly the way she wants them to be. It’s fine to have female characters you don’t like. We all have characters. We don’t like. Get over it.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Also, are female characters allowed to have flaws or not? Are female characters allowed to not be likable from the very beginning?

[@VanillaSunrise56]

I feel like anyone who says She Hulk is a girlboss didn't actually watch the show. Also as the number one Captain Marvel defender, she's also not a girl boss (especially given The Marvels) but they did give her a prince husband and an implied past relationship with Valkyrie, but more importantly she found familial love that brought her out of her depressive state. There's still nuance to be found in female characters in franchise pictures, but if all people consume is media illiterate slop farms who see a woman in a leading role and call it woke, then of course they won't see it.

[@Fastandsteady]

"It's instead about his daughter Hera, who is nothing more than a footnote", meanwhile I bet she had no qualms with the original God of War franchise, even though the Greek Kratos was a fucking nobody they built upon lol.

[@mercedeswalt6621]

Wow, woke really does just mean, “thing I don’t like,” doesn’t it? But it did officially have a meaning and was born from black culture so…maybe the new cheapened definition makes sense.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

It has real meaning: past tense of verb 'wake'.

[@duckified.]

@@vksasdgaming9472 that used to mean something positive until crybaby conservatives decided "uhh actually... being aware of problematic things is BAD"

[@vksasdgaming9472]

@@duckified. Lesson learned: never use short term when you refer to something positive (or at least neutral) as extremist conservatives twist it to opposite with stupid catchphrases like "go woke go broke lol".

[@idreadFell365]

She’s obsessed with the typical romantic archetype and stupidly believes that real human connection.

[@nix6940]

That LotR story sounds like the comic I read about Boba Fett, a character who was a footnote in the original story. It was dope.

[@brainypepper1621]

Meanwhile I have a problem with romance subplots being shoehorned into every movie. I’m not even aro and I’m sick of it.

[@RABartlett]

So it seems like she's doing what a lot of grifters do, which is reverse-engineering successess post hoc. DUNE and WICKED aren't woke because they're successful and acclaimed, while WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM and CHARLIE'S ANGELS flopped because they had obnoxious girlbosses, and just won't accept the nuance that sometimes people with a more progressive outlook make good movies and sometimes they don't. I actually remember when peope got mad Awren had an expanded role in the movies. To be fair, the first two Terminator movies are poignant.

[@lakegroce685]

Kinda embarrassing for her to project her internal misogyny onto a poorly reassured video essay. Like, girl either get some help with that or just try to appeal to misogynistic men I a different format.

[@HyperSaneDemon]

I used to be redpill like this, then I started studying ethics and philosophy and fell in love with the idea of sophia from gnostic philosophy - the ultimate femme fatale. In vedic philosophy I love the gnostic equivalent of Saraswati which also is a savior of humankind using knowledge - and Ardhanarishvara which is the first (pre xian) LGBTQ+ intersex god/ess. Xian = anti-everything human, vedic/gnostic = knowledge and equality. I personally feel philosophy like hyper-sanity could be a potent bridge for helping redpillers escape, as philosophy is basically a bridge between religion and atheism. A redpiller only understands language that's baseline to xian - so trying to help someone using science and just blasting them, tends to just make them more radicalized.

[@marcospisanis739]

This NerdWord girl really is probably one of those jealous people who everyone rejected her last screenplay. You know you should always have editors and proofreaders.

[@BlackCover95]

So you think she’s Ben Shppiro?

[@AshParth560]

If this pick-me woman wants to complain about girl bosses, then why not she make one and prove us wrong? Like how the Critical Drinker done with his own series/movie. Oh, wait, how did that turn out? XD

[@EvasiveMuse]

Thank you to the chatter who gave us "yearns for the trad mines"

[@BlackCover95]

I’m stealing that.

[@dizbrony3906]

War of the Rohirrim was fantastic. This person is silly.

[@teenkitsune]

I loved it and I'm not even a fan of LOTR or really any of Tolkien's work!

[@Dos_Caffeine]

I loved it it was great :D

[@redclayscholar620]

It wasn't good or bad. It was, meh.

[@dizbrony3906]

@@redclayscholar620 If by meh you mean fantastic, I agree.

[@redclayscholar620]

@@dizbrony3906 no. I mean it was rather dull. If it wasn't animated I wouldn't have watched it.

[@fujoyoshi4368]

The "great story of helm hammerhand" is like a single page in the legendium, they made everything in the movie up because tolkien never bothered to actually flesh it out. Also nobody gave a shit about Helm before this movie unless you were a fan of the tabletop game and played historic rohan (the tabletop game going through a huge boom right now because of this movie)

[@RABartlett]

I believe he does feature in the SHADOWS OF WAR game--but it (*SPOILER*** .... ... ... ... ... ... has him killing his daughter in a rage and then finding himself turned into a Nazgul. WotR is a much more flattering portrayal, even with the warts and al take.

[@amethystimagination3332]

I really enjoyed War of the Rohirrim but I also knew that all the men and pick mes online were gonna hate it. Because they hate when you acknowledge that some men have issues with entitlement and will get violent if you politely turn them down.

[@Forsworcen]

And here I was, hoping they’d do more self contained stories like War of the Rohirrim, but I guess I just have trash taste according to this random pick me on the inter webs?

[@vkylocifer3439]

The War of Rohirrim is an anime-style movie. The style is similar to the Ghibli, where warrior princesses have been a thing since their first movie. And yeah, princess fighting big dudes in pretty dresses is one of the most common anime tropes ever

[@ShinyAvalon]

"...because the laws of biology don't apply here".... There's no way a woman wrote that phrase out of her own head. I'm calling it now - a man wrote this script, and just got a woman to narrate the video, in a kind of "as a black man" gambit.

[@duckified.]

"as a woman..." - 🎤👩🔫👨

[@Shibbylovess]

You’re worried about how women are represented in movies; we’re worried about Nazi destroying America. We are not the same 🙄 Imagine wasting your time on this dumb ass topic. Calling her a pick me is almost being too generous…

[@Markadown]

I lost brain cells listening to that woman.

[@ninegearcrow]

The most poignant--sorry, poyent--part of the Terminator movies 30+ years later actually turned out to be that two-second moment where John's mullet haired friend says "I don't know him" to the T-1000 posing as a cop when it comes around asking questions about John.

[@AegixDrakan]

Oh boy, wait until she reads about Eowyn, and how she girlbossed her way into slaying the Lich King, whom "no man could kill". XD

[@dovahofmorte4039]

Or Xena the warrior princess? There are also more female characters and even in history.

[@VanillaSunrise56]

You know I used to think Eowyn killing the Witch King was cool as hell but now I hate it because it ignores the laws of biology

[@cjbird446]

I prefer to think of it along the same lines as the Macbeth prophecy loophole, more akin to a play on semantics than on biology

[@EliasValadez-pu1iq]

You know I know they got rid of it because they wanted to stay close to the books but come on. You set up Aragorn’s elf GF as this badass warrior princess but then decide to get rid of scenes in the sequel that show her being a badass warrior princess and just have her sit around and wait for her BF for the rest of the trilogy?

[@curvingfyre6810]

the acolyte getting canned right when it was getting good was tragic, having a chance to see _pre_ prequel republic/jedi would have been awesome

[@Forsworcen]

3:54 da fuq?!? I literally thought the exact opposite? I was happy that Helm wasn’t the main character cause, while the story was interesting, he’s not exactly a great person.

[@RABartlett]

I mean, the canon is that his line ended with him, having his daughter lives his best life kind of takes the edge off, and keeps it from being a complete downer. Now, maybe someone wants a movie to end on a note that's more bitter than sweet--but LORD OF THE RINGS is not the best property to scratch that itch.

[@musicf3b]

I need people to stop portraying their opinions about a trope as a society wide conspiracy. It’s like she doesn’t understand what a protagonist is

[@NiraSader]

Remember guys: It´s only woke when the strong woman also wields a sword

[@comradewarners]

I did not like Rings Of Power, but it had nothing to do with its “wokeness” just a lot of talking and not a lot else 😂

[@danielp2448]

No, no... I like her idea. If girls are only allowed in romances movies, that means any sub-plot romances in any other genre going forward, like Action, are going to be gay. Women aren't allowed to be in those story, therefore, only gay romances. Fuck, I can just imagine a future story of Terminator where they have to go back in time, to change one of the six million futures, and a Terminator gets sent back in time to find a dude, and they have to lead them to their future husband, so they can straight up be Achilles and Patroclus in the future war with Skynet.

[@duckified.]

but what about lesbian romance 💔

[@Wepospalient]

Every antiwoke grifter sounds exactly the same, not an original though in their grifting little heads. I suppose being subversive wouldnt get you as many grifterbucks now would it?

[@altaisrs2857]

And yet, so many of their comments be like, "FiNaLLy someone says it" like they just found the holy grail. Lmao.

[@ninetailscosmicfox5585]

This makes me respect those trad women who go full Gregg Turkington from On Cinema more. Instead of whining because the world is moving on without him, he just cherishes the time where we didnt know it was wrong that only male filmmakers existed in the public consciousness and most of them were too afraid of letting women have an empowering role.

[@seraphonica]

"More roles for women like the Bene Gesserit" is... well, it's an opinion someone could theoretically have. Also, Denis Villeneuve is not an activist? I guess she missed the environmental messages in Dune, and I bet she never saw Polytechnique. He co-wrote and directed it in 2009. It's about a school shooting in his home country. And it's better than Run Hide Fight 😂

[@carrion75]

I wish she-hulk had courtroom drama with superheroes. But I liked it fine.

[@DominikMaslyk]

14:05 Oh fucking hell I was gonna yell at the screen at that point to go fucking watch a romcom then. Like any sappy-ass fucking romcom from the late 90s-2000s. That’s what she wants

[@julietfischer5056]

Or numerous Hallmark movies.

[@kruvken8582]

As someone who saw The war of the Rohirrim. It is actually a offensivly bad movie, but for basicly none of the points metioned here. The biggest one being the god awful manuscript that slaughters all characters except ONE, and i strongly suspect the only reason he isn't destroyed by the script is because he has mabey 3 minutes of dialoge in the whole movie. This anti-woke bullshit is so anoying cause when i want to talk about the movie and want to deconstruct all the ways it's bad you mostly just get: it's WOKE. Not the ways artstyle for the background and charecters is fucking jarring and terrible when mashed together. Not how this amazing warhero, hammerhand, has the strategic competance of a toddler. Not the god awful characterarcs with nonexisting progression for almost ALL the characters. And lastly, to anyone shitting on shieldmaidens, you are stupid. I'm from norway, and it's litterally a part of my countrys peganism. The french have Jean d'arc, the chinese have mulan. The nordic's have shield maidens, plural. Not all western countries considered women to be subhuman (of course until christianity)

[@kalinaribic6383]

And the Greeks have Amazon women. The Balkan Slavs had partizan women killing enemy male soldiers with shotguns, bombs and machine guns. My country even had Kučuk-Stana, the wife of hajduk Veljko Petrović during the early 1800's. And let's not forget Milunka Savić who fought in the Balkan wars and in WW1. So, women CAN kill men. I don't know what is this pick-me talking about.

[@Bezaliel13]

Ugh, for the sake of claiming "I don't hate [minority], just when it is ALL there is to the character," they of course have to IGNORE everything about a character.

[@MayMN]

(I need to vent) I was watching a video about colorism and the girl made really good points for the 99% of the video but then she dropped that there shouldnt be ANY blacks girls that are activist beacuse that is too masculine °0°, like what?! NO!! we must teach girls, specially black girls, to fight against their oprressors!! Its obvious that not every child in a comedy show can be the activist trope, just like real life but NONE...? that would be so offputting even more considering that the show (at least in a broad way) is supposed to encourage children to love themselves in a contemporary world where racism and misogyny are rampant things. Its just that, not really related to the video but that idea, ingrained on our minds that no woman should be presented as a fighter is seriously dangeruos, even more with the raise of "trad wives & shallow pink" content, lying to their audiences, manipulating them! Telling young girls (and teens who are just getting into the real world) that they are inferior to men, and they should strive to be more feminine and weak, because presenting yourself as more masculine is taking value from you is nuts but we are in such "(false) choice phase".

[@dovahofmorte4039]

It sounds like they would be against tomboys.

[@raphaelmarquez9650]

This Pick Me sounds as bad as JesterBell.

[@zenbear9952]

Gotta love pick me's who never follow their own logic. She does know she didn't make a love story here right?

[@SokkingBTtulaj]

I think this was the lady who made a critique vid of the boys but literally forgot stuff that happened only a few episode ago, didn't understand why stuff are happening and went on a rant about "look at the boys making reporting on people cuz they might be predators a bad thing" literally missing that Ryan was singing withe puppets of 3 predators ( one into teen boys) about it and that the song was a reference to IRL stuff.

[@petehjr1]

hes mentioned in LOTR movie and book. His statue is there in the movie but he didn't build Helm's Deep, He's just one of the major figures associated with it.

[@LatterDayPup]

“Pick me” really does just mean minority says something I don’t like.

[@julietfischer5056]

Boadicea and the Rani of Jansee would like a word. As would all the women who put on men's clothes and went to war.

[@Moloc92]

Boudica was abject failure who succeeded in nothing beyond getting huge numbers of her own people killed. The only reason you even know about her is because the Queen of England used her for propaganda.

[@KillerTofuDrums]

My entire world was shattered to pieces when i learned that Harold Hammer-man wouldn't be the focus of his own story, but instead would be based on a Tolkien footnote about about his daughter. She was barely mentioned. She was the equivalent of a Boba Fett from episode 2 (i dont acknowledge the prequels) - he may have sounded cool but nothing ended up happening with him. For good reason, he didnt have a hand in shaping the galaxy. Infuriating.

[@thewatcher7940]

2:08 THANK YOU

[@UCUCUC27]

oooh oo oooo ooooh me mee meee!!!1

[@dracocrusher]

What's she got against characters being arrogant? It's so weird. People like characters with ego, seeing people be confident and full of themselves is fun to watch. I mean, just look at how many people love Iron Man more than Captain America or The Hulk, right? I've never heard of anyone bash Thor for being arrogant, they just think it's a fun part of his character and they move on like normal people. Why should women always be passive and subservient to others? Heck, if anything, she's a girl. It's pretty arrogant of you to tell male directors what to do with their own films they worked for, right? Seems kind-of hypocritical, doesn't it? If she's saying we need to only care about gentle non-arrogant women then why should we care about the arrogant stuff she's saying? I dunno, really seems to me like everyone loves Bayonetta and Ryuko from Kill la Kill, but nobody really cares about the generic love interest of the week in most movies you see. It's almost like being confident for yourself instead of pursuing a man is a pretty valid thing for a woman to be, isn't it?

[@Houtont]

Eh I get enough of arrogant people in real life, I'd rather not have them be everywhere. But I can just ignore things I don't like which is apparently a superpower to some people.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Especially when arrogance and other flaws are part of the characters' arc and development. Apparently, only male characters are allowed to have that. Female characters must be perfect from the beginning so people can then complain about them being Mary Sues or something.

[@dracocrusher]

@@ExtremeMadnessX Oh they're going to do that anyways, lol! It's really funny when you notice every Mary Sue complaint is just people bitching about power scaling with the bottom end just being "This woman is a Mary Sue because she beats one guy in a fight." That's all it is now. Just "If a woman can fight, she's a Mary Sue."

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

​@@HoutontThat's dependent on the context of the story. Arrogant characters are mostly villains or main characters that will have huge development during the story.

[@jalejablonsky2396]

If Fellowship of the Ring came out she'd whine that Arwen being a person and having a role is woke and everyone will bully the actress until she's cut out of the second film. Oh wait! That last part actually happened. XD

[@terra8395]

Shoutout to the person who mention Fire emblem 8 in chat

[@scruggs108]

3:27 I hate being THAT guy, but I know she didn't know shit about Helm😅

[@ragingdevi]

Saying you hate men characters who simp after women and then calling what sara and reese have "love" is insane behavior. He was enamored with her because he watched videos of her his whole life, the man could have been a terminator because he was a simp MACHINE.

[@donatellod.dabbins3609]

Tbh I thought She-Hulk was awesome. All the anti-woke hate was annoying as fuck. I do agree they could've had more lawyer stuff, but apart from that they got the character pretty spot on.

[@granudisimo]

It felt like a less brainy versión of "Birdman: Attorney At Law." which is exactly why I loved it.

[@micahmx6002]

I been gone sooo long. What happened to Jake's voice

[@wolfwatch9731]

to tell this story AT ALL they would have had to essentially invent a character, because none of the major players are there for the entire story. hera's family all dies and frealaf is away until the very end. changes would have HAD to be made from the scant source material regardless, either inventing a character wholecloth or changing things so that frealaf isn't away / one of hera's family members survives. so building a character from the pre-existing foundation of helm's unnamed daughter simply makes sense. the alternative would be completely inventing a character out of nothing, so if people complaining about war of the rohirrim think that should have happened they're not actually upset about changes to the source material and JUST upset that the protagonist is a woman. and pardon me for gatekeeping but people upset about wotr are also fake fans if they think this lessens eowyn to make another shieldmaiden of rohan - in my opinion the book made it pretty clear that while eowyn is somewhat unique *in her time*, she is certainly not unique in *the entire history of rohan*. there were other female warriors that came before her, so this doesn't break canon or something at all. in fact having the framing device of eowyn telling the story makes a lot of sense, of course she would be inspired by tales of rohirrim warrior women of the past, and would take more care to learn and remember and pass on those stories than her countrymen. AND hera's story largely being forgotten by the people of rohan makes plenty of sense. if essentially all of humanity can pretty much forget the fucking one ring or else take it as fiction, of course this one lady from a dead royal line who was really only relevant for this one event in the history of this one nation that (iirc) doesn't really keep written records and is more oral-history-focused is lost to history. anyway not to be pretentious about tolkien but i will forever gatekeep people like the lady in the video. and i'm upset that the movie lowkey flopped because (1) i thought it was pretty good. the last 5-10 minutes got a little to fanservicey but other than that pretty strong and (2) animation is probably the only way we're ever going to see a lot of smaller stories from the appendices / the wider legendarium adapted, because they aren't well known enough or large enough scale to warrant a full fledged live action movie / tv adaptation. and there are a lot of those stories from the history of middle earth that i really want to see adapted! which (probably) won't happen since war of the rohirrim underperformed. idk maybe next time new line cinema needs to renew the film rights we'll get another one. edit after i got to the part where she's talking about female characters that she likes: oh... she's stupid

[@Buzzcook]

Is that an AI narrator?

[@TheKeyser94]

I actually like this movie, and fill the void, why the Haradrim join Sauron, in the end was a blood feud, Tolkien fans where pissed by this movie, not only for Hera, but because they portrayed the Rohan not as noble as in the movies, after all, Helm killed one of his vassals in cold blood, for daring to ask the hand of his daughter in marriage, and in the beginning is show how entitle and arrogant they were, till their whole village was destroyed and countless lives where lost, he could simply denied the request, but he acted like Aerys II when Tywin asked to Cersei marry Rhaegar.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

Haradrim and Dunlanders who attacked Rohan during Helm's reign were not same people. Helm was great warrior and poor politician.

[@TheKeyser94]

@@vksasdgaming9472 I known, but the Haradrim were ally of the Dunlanders during the siege, it must have been a very humiliating defeat after a long siege, something that they would never would forget, being a poor politician it not a excuse to murder one if your own vassals in front of everyone, causing that your own vassals turn against you.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

@@TheKeyser94 Haradrim being allies of Dunlanders really does not make sense as Gondor is right between Rohan and Haradwaith. Getting assisting army through Gondor is not feasible. What little is written of Helm is that he was fast to act and slow to consider. Freca was lacking diplomatic skill as well, but Wulf obviously chose blood instead of wergild. Then again Helm had declared Freca's kin outlaws already so there was no chance of peaceful end to such feud. In the end nobody won though Wulf did claim his revenge.

[@TheGreatestJediOfAllTime]

Okay. She Hulk was NOT fine. It was a cringe disaster. Nothing to get angry about politically though.

[@TheGreatestJediOfAllTime]

You liked Acolyte. I am now a fascist. Thanks Jake😡

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

I like the episode with Daredevil.

[@rsync9490]

​@TheGreatestJediOfAllTime I watched acolyte without listening to any of the reviews, and boy, that story was straight up about the allure of evil. It was so on the nose about rationalizing malevolent, petty, and selfish behavior.

[@sneakyfishiix8014]

My sensei who weighed way less than me was much older than me and was a women and had the coolest name I shit you not this was her actual name Sensei Katherine Laser Sensei Laser for short could chuck my 180lb(at the time) ass around like a ragdoll being women don't mean shit if you know how to fight.

[@oddduck2003]

Yo she-hulk was a pretty sick show

[@LadyEmpathy666]

Yeah!

[@David-gd3qm]

The Show was a prime example why i dislike the new Marvel Humor.

[@oddduck2003]

@@David-gd3qm explain ? What about marvel's humor now rubs you the wrong way.

[@donatellod.dabbins3609]

​@@David-gd3qmI feel like the humor hasn't really changed. Marvel movies have always been sarcastic one liners, and pop culture references since Ironman 1.

[@jaythehuman2552]

But people have rose tinted glasses when it comes down to gen 1 MCU/pre MCU marvel movies that popped off. ​@@donatellod.dabbins3609

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

what a pick me

[@rsync9490]

He thought the acolyte was a good story? A story that teaches the audience the allure of evil? ......

[@Cryo_Nova]

her voice sounds like ellen and it's aggravating me

[@edwinjusto5739]

Dude you are trying to be a contrarian for no reason, she hulked sucked, so did the acolyte thats why they were cancelled immediately, even feminists hated those shows, and rings of powers is disastrous, as for female thor i actually didn’t mind her and she wasn’t the main focus

[@PlatinumAltaria]

Gonna bet $100 that you haven't watched any of these things.