Summary
In 2024, pop culture reflected a conservative resurgence, marked by increased popularity of hyper-masculine “bro” figures, country music, and traditional femininity.
Stars like Sydney Sweeney were embraced as symbols of a backlash against “woke culture” and the Me Too movement.
Country artists like Morgan Wallen and Zach Bryan dominated charts, while conservative films, such as Reagan and Am I Racist?, saw box office success.
Analysts suggest this cultural shift is both a response to progressive movements and a strategic attempt by conservative media to shape public sentiment.
I honestly can’t fathom people identifying with what one would describe as “backlash against the metoo movement”
“Can’t stand hearing all those women say they were raped or sexually harassed. I just won’t tolerate it.”
There was major backlash to black people saying that their lives matter.
It’s easier to blame the movement than taking a look at themselves.
It just makes me conclude that they’re pro-rape
Meanwhile, the success of Chappell Roan, Inside Out 2, and the Fallout TV series tell us absolutely nothing /s
Dumb ass take. Wow.
What’s the “dumb ass take” from this? Because based on what just happened a lot of this is accurate. Sad, but accurate.
I’m not who you were asking, but I’ve got at least two problems with this,
The biggest problem is cherry picking examples to reach a conclusion while ignoring contradicting evidence. We had plenty of more successful pop culture stuff that had overtly progressive and feminist themes, and conservative stuff doing well isn’t really a new phenomenon this year (the article even points this out where it talks about American Sniper and Passion of the Christ).
The second biggest problem is that the numbers underlying this are suspect - it’s easy to manipulate streaming numbers and book sales, and church groups are taking whole congregations to movies if they think it’s a culture war win. Also, reading Sydney Sweeney and hawk-tuah girl as conservative wins are stretches that the author never really justifies (not to mention seeing Beyonce getting shit out by the CMAs as anything other than a sign that country music executives don’t like independent black women who already have successful music careers beyond their influence).
Which gets to a problem that might only bug me, but this article has nothing to say about any of the art it’s bringing up and misses what I think could be an actually interesting conversation - what does the kind of art conservatives are getting into tell us about them? Like, the fact that they’ve meme-d around hawk-tuah girl, when did conservatives get “sex positive”? (rape positive if we’re being honest, but that’d be a conclusion an article could build towards by actually engaging with the material)
e; ttpos
Today, on “we can’t admit that Democrats’ strategy of running to the right has failed.”
Stars like Sydney Sweeney were embraced as symbols of a backlash against “woke culture” and the Me Too movement.
I’ve heard this, too, but, um, she’s unbelievably attractive in a conventional way with an amazing body? Anyone with eyes and enjoys the female form is going to appreciate that, so, of course she’s going to be embraced in a medium like films?
I don’t get how this is anti-woke, but maybe I’m not terminally online enough to get it. Has there been some parade of very unattractive women with unattractive bodies being embraced in film that I missed?
