Are there Any Woke Properties that you Unironically Enjoy?

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Watch Dogs 2. Massive improvement from Watch Dogs 1 in setting, variety, movement and protagonist.
The original wasn't that bad either. A bit iffy on occasion, but it's best if you ignore the story and just go around offing everyone you disapprove of like in that video. That and I have a bit of a soft spot for Chicago (which may also qualify as a woke property that I unironically enjoy).
 
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The original wasn't that bad either. A bit iffy on occasion, but it's best if you ignore the story and just go around offing everyone you disapprove of like in that video. That and I have a bit of a soft spot for Chicago (which may also qualify as a woke property that I unironically enjoy).
The story kept me going. Parkour has been greatly improved in the sequel. However, I do like the consistency in WD1's tone.
 
Forgive me Father for I have sinned, I enjoyed Girls even though I fucking hate Lena Dunham because she is fat and disgusting. I watched all 6 seasons.
I think it was interesting in the beginning of the series it was implied that Hannah wasn't a very good writer as opposed to the end where she gets job as a professor because of her amazing Buzzfeed articles. Also, I think the show would have been 10 times better if it had focused more on Soshanna and Ray. Or even just Soshanna in Japan.
 
There isn't a single "woke" property that I enjoy.

Merely having "diverse" cast isn't enough to be woke. You gotta have tokenism, pointless race swapping because brown skinned characters apparently can't stand on their own merits, anti-white racism, annoying harpies that don't need no man, postmodern repudiations of ideas like the hero's journey because it's apparently sexist or fascist or some shit...

However, it's easy to find examples of works that were already "diverse" without obnoxious woke politics. And weren't huffing their own farts.

 
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Harlots. It’s visually appealing, the actors are great, and the diversity does have some historical basis. It’s set in the late 1700s and there is an interracial lesbian romance, and even that’s not terribly done (probably because it’s a pretty small subplot and I tend to enjoy those sorts of romances over the main couples). It’s no wonder it got cancelled after season 3, which featured a record number of straight white men who weren’t villains. Also, the show runners were accused of misogyny because they killed off a female main character.

The biggest annoyance is in season one when one character says “Even in death, women must suffer more.” She was comparing being burnt at the stake to being hung, drawn and quartered, as if either of those is particularly merciful.
 
Japanese games that have sacrificed the word gender on the altar of international sales.

But I'm not sure those even really count, since outside of some stupid phrasing in character creation, it doesn't pander at all. Hell, I had a good laugh during the lead-up to Splatoon 3 where all the reddit/twitter faggots were jerking themselves off over how they had their precious troon/ENBEEEE rep with Shiver, only for Nintendo to come out a couple days later and unambiguously state "Nah, she's a girl."
 
Classic Doctor Who, the wokeness there is very quaint for obvious reasons. It is amazing how many surreal scenes they could produce on a shoestring budget, and the scale of the action is small enough to be believable most of the time rather than it always being some universe-ending threat that the whole season was building towards. Also it was the time when stereotypical British humour wasn't worn out yet. Quite surprising to see that this show had the Borg (Cybermen) and the Vulcan Neck Pinch before Star Trek did.

You still have proto-woke themes like guns bad, the most iconic villains being bug-eyed Nazis, straw imperialists who call the locals "savages" before getting their asses kicked, rich people bad (but not always), thinly veiled environmentalist messaging, and the quirky cosmopolitan intellectual who pops in and solves everything with his genius, though Classic has the decency to downplay that last part in many episodes.

The First Doctor era is probably the least woke, fitting the classic Anglo "whig history" more than anything the Frankfurt School pushed. In "The Romans" (which takes place during Nero's reign) Christianity is portrayed as a progressive force that introduced kindness and humility to that harsh society for example, while "The Aztecs" strongly implies the Aztecs doomed themselves by doubling down on human sacrifice, while also showing that reforming such a society even with a lucky god disguise is no easy task. It does subscribe to 20th century leftist anthropology though, because a Roman slaver presents Ian and Barbara as being of the "Britannic Race", which only makes sense if you deny the Anglo-Saxon invasions' effect on the English gene pool like those diffusionist anthropologists did.
 
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And Just Like That (the Sex and the City spinoff) was a guilty pleasure of mine. Ridiculously woke but ultimate cringe, watch it.

Idk which storyline was the best: Miranda in a grey Andy Warhol wig yelling "We all drank a little too much during the pandemic but... I just couldn't stop!" after Carrie finds her getting fingered by a non-binary butch lesbian in her kitchen, Charlotte's trans child, or Carrie texting a non-existent Samantha about how she told the world on a podcast about how she had her face in her vagina for over a minute.
 
I enjoyed Peacemaker quite a lot though a lot of the wokeness is lost when the main character doesn't roll with it most of the time
Yes, Waller's daughter was a Black Lesbian of Size but her most prominent trait was her repudiation of her evil mother's moral flexibility. She had both virtues and flaws, and the only place her ethnicity was relevant was with Peacemaker's racist dad.
One annoyance, it would have been better if the team lead spoke with his native British accent though, as I first thought they had trooned out Amanda Waller.

I don't count Squid Game or Disney's Andor as woke, as there is a huge difference between being old socialist values and corporate manufactured identity politics.
 
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I've spoken up in support of Wings of Fire, but there's no denying woke crept in towards the end of it's (current) run.

I don't mean because it has the gays, as it treats them as people should: Oh, ok, moving on. But there exists a character in the final book that literally stops, turns around, and tells the heroes that 'I'm a them.'

The only reason I forgive Tui for it, other than I'm almost certain it was forced in against her will, is said 'they/them' is almost immediately pushed to the side and ignored for the rest of the book.
 
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