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At times, I feel this applies to IF as well, but mostly SNS. I have noticed that if a movie/ TV show is popular and yet regressive, people are less willing to speak up against it. Yet if the movie/show is less popular or if the actor has less fans (more so the main factor), people are more willing to attack the movie/show and even the actor. I don't want to give examples of movies in this forum, cos it is less applicable (as compared to in SNS) plus I don't want to start an argument and deviate from the topic.
For TV, people are willing to speak up against PPK/TSMSP but yet people don't speak up as much against IB/ Udaan. I noticed more people were criticising IPK3 only after it was clear that it was becoming a flop. Both TSMSP and IB involve chauvinistic males and yet I find the TSMSP gets attacked more than IB. To be clear, I'm not supporting any of these shows, but I don't get the double standards. In fact, I've noticed that some of those who bash TSMSP/other regressive shows are even fans of IB. 😕
Is it because people are afraid of getting attacked by the actor's fans or don't want to be trolled? If so, it is sad, as we can never get rid of regressive movies/ TV shows as long as people pick and choose regressive content. People need to speak up against regressive content even in popular movies/ shows as well. By targeting the less popular movies/ TV shows alone, we will never get rid of regressive content and will be stuck in the same era of regressiveness.
P.S. To clarify, I'm including serials in my post as both movies and serials influence culture and the impact of both should be discussed.
Anupamaa
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