Great talk. I remember watching some The Rock movie where the main characters were a white couple and The Rock (who is Pacific Islander or something, not white). I think there was a giant ape (aside from The Rock). Anyway, almost immediately the white male is made out to be a coward and only there to make mistakes and be the butt of jokes, and I think at one point his girlfriend gets with The Rock. Basically white male characters are there to be ridiculed, the concept of masculinity is to be mocked and the white girl has to fuck the nigger. And he's right, the Mary Sue characters in modern movies are a disservice to girls. There is no learning or hero's journey, just an overpowered 120 pound girl beating up 250 pound henchmen. There is no elder to learn things from to prepare them for challenges ahead. Star Wars is a perfect example of the hero's journey. Luke Skywalker starts the movie as a goofy kid, stuck on a farm, playing with model spaceships. He meets his mentor, learns to fight, gets his ass kicked a few times, and when his mentor dies he reaches the "all is lost" point in the script, where he has to overcome immense odds to be the hero at the end. Compare that to the Star Wars remake, The Force Awakens. Rey, a classic Mary Sue, has no mentor. She has no struggle, no training. She picks up a lightsaber and right away is Jedi master level at fighting, and holds her own against a Sith master. Why? Because she has a vagina. And again the male "hero" is now black and mostly there for comic relief, running after Rey like some Stepin Fetchit stereotype. It was the hero's journey without the hero or the journey, which is why is felt so empty. How are you supposed to generate care for characters that essentially have nothing to risk? It's just a noisy light show with explosions and CGI, and a horrible representation of feminine power for girls watching.

As for why the studios are doing this? Yes there was the Me Too stuff, but on a deeper level it is about censoring anything masculine or white. To portray a fantasy reality that has nothing to do with how the world works. It's Marxist propaganda in a popular form. I think it has also a lot to do with the Writer's Strike in the late 2000s, Hollywood lost a lot of good writers who never returned. Diversity quotas and celebrating incompetent black filmmakers like whoever made that pile of shit Black Panther also play a part in dragging the quality down.