I disagree. That doesn't mean that Doctor Whoke is not "too woke", or that The Guardian is "looney woke".
Wokeness is a system of beliefs where you increase your social status by virtue signalling. Usually, you virtual signal non-wokes. However, once that neo-religion has spread enough in mainstream media, that becomes more and more difficult.
The final step is wokes turning on other wokes to increase their social status. It's basically the same behavior than "I'm going to the Church more often than you, so I'm better than you" some centuries ago. You'll have people trying to find anything that allow them to virtue signal, because that's the way to increase your status.
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peter_t_2k3 (1053)
5 years ago
As I have previously mentioned the problem with the word woke is lots of people have different meanings. You seemed to mention woke wasn't that something is being political correct and diverse but quite the opposite and that it wasn't doing it right e.g. female character is played by a female but the character is acted male or has male traits rather than female etc.
However what this article seems to suggest is people are complaining the show is being too woke because of political correctness, a SJW feel etc. And they are saying that actually it's doing the opposite and actually could be seen as offensive.
And this is my point. Too many people use the word woke to mean something else. If the word was about what you meant e.g. female characters being written as male characters and so on it appears to have been warped and lost its meaning.
As I have also mentioned this hasn't helped by people simply using the word often on it's own e.g. the show is just woke now and so on. If some people are trying to use it for a genuine criticism then it's getting lost by people appearing to be trolls.
You mentioned to me we need words like woke to define things but I disagree. Obviously not in general but I do disagree in the case of woke right now. If someone criticised the show saying the doctor wasn't female enough and argued that her characteristics, mannerisms and actions just felt like a male writer writing for a male character then theres certainly an interesting take and discussion to have. But people don't seem to do this they just say the word woke and as I said people have different defentions for the word.
To show you what I mean here is an article from a few months ago. The article and comments are important because it seems most people think a film.that is being woke is about progressivism and often taking it too far.
https://www.filmstories.co.uk/features/a-few-thoughts-about-using-the-word-woke-in-movie-reviews/
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