It Was NEVER About He-Man: The Anatomy of a Nerd-Rage

    As I write this, the new 'Masters of the Universe' cartoon has come out. And, as surely as night follows day, the same crop of CHUDs has come surging up to the gates of Castle Greyskull with all the usual complaints about SJWs and Affirmative Action and Feminazis and what-the-fuck ever these turds go on about whenever this shit inevitably rolls around again.     With that in mind, I think it's vitally important to remember one thing...

THE THING THAT IT'S ABOUT IS NEVER WHAT IT'S ABOUT

    The Most Important Thing to Remember is that, as with every single one of these Fanboy Outrage "movements", the inciting force behind 90% of it is backstage bad actors, whether they're 4chan CHUDs, White Supremacists, alt-right fuckheads, Incel Man-Babies or any combination of the above.

    They follow the same format every time, and every time, there's a big chorus of dunderheads who join in.

Step 1. Find nostalgic thing that fans feel passionate about.

Step 2. Weaponize nostalgic thing by asking the same three questions, "Hey, wasn't this thing better back in the old days? Do you think the new version's not very good? Would you like to know who's responsible?"

Step 3. Point, Aim And Fire, then sit back and watch the dimwit chorus take all the heat, while you head off to weaponize... I dunno. The A-Team or some-fuckin-thing.

    The reason this technique works so well is that it bypasses a lot of critical thinking processes by aiming squarely at a person's eight-year old brain.

    
    Billy Connolly once said, "At a certain age, we begin to become nostalgic for the things of our youth, like cobbled streets and milk in glass bottles. But it's not those things we're really longing for as much as it is our Youth itself."

    It's the foundation of a lot of Conservative rhetoric. You can arouse the passions of an adult, frustrated that their life hasn't worked out the way they hoped, by invoking artefacts of their childhood, and then you just link those two things together, so the person equates that childhood thing with their own feelings of powerlessness and loss. Which is why grown adults are so mad at a cartoon for children. 
    It's not the Cartoon they're mad at. It's their lost childhood, and the sudden false revelation that it's not JUST been lost... but STOLEN. Stolen by THEM. 

    And that it's what it's really about. It's really about bad actors trying to get you to draw a link between the thing that you love, and the thing they want you to hate. The thing that you love isn't even important, just as long as you love it and feel passionate enough that they can rile you up and get you thinking about certain groups as "the enemy".

    From Video Games to Comic Books to Star Wars... if you dig deep enough into the noxious strata of butthurt fanboy whiners lining up to be exploited, you'll find the same vicious motherfuckers exploiting them.

    Gamergate wasn't about Games. Comicsgate wasn't about Comics. The Backlash against She-Ra wasn't about She-Ra. The Backlash against Star Wars wasn't about Star Wars. This current lot of Backlash isn't about He-Man.

    It's about providing a wedge issue to allow the dissemination of Extreme Right-Wing Ideology and recruiting vulnerable people into Extreme Right-Wing Causes.