Some folks were discussing fundamental Red Pill concepts. I actually agree with many Red Pill viewpoints, but I also see that there are certain venues and communities where it's just not practical to talk about it. In a couple of decades of operation for OSW and it's predecessor, The Warrior Forum, there were like 5 women total who posted in those communities. The tone was a little different, it was more dedicated military / law enforcement culture oriented and was mostly guys. Here, because Sideshow had a broad range of licenses and types of formats, there are far more women posting and participating. The tone here is different.
There's a way to criticize both toxic masculinity and toxic femininity when it begins to apply itself to the mainstream.
Critical Drinker has had an elevated profile in the last year or so for his reviews of movie and TV shows. I'm sure there are many who would love to see him "cancelled" in the overall trend of the modern cancel culture. But what he does is focus his criticisms on how shows and movies are making choices, and that might include issues like perceived promiscuity, that cheat basic character development, narrative structure and essential storytelling convention.
To balance out the risks of saying unpopular things with a lot of eyes on him looking to crush him, he invites a female entertainment "internet pundit" in a round table to talk about She Hulk. She explains what she doesn't like about it.
It's just easier to house value judgements within process and form criticism instead of just laying out pure value judgements, which is going to polarize people. Critical Drinker is making value judgements against She Hulk and show runner Jessica Gao, but he's discussing in the framework of process. That makes his position actually defensible.
I hate woke and cancel culture and political correctness as much as the next person. I might actually be more Red Pill than anyone here in private. But if you want to be a guy in modern times and you want to criticize certain elements that are the "new normal", then you have to take a defensible position first. So it's not fair, but it's how it works.
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