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Found this picture on the web and its a new year card. So Happy New Year to All The Guyver Forum.

Quirky series with a hell of a leading man (and by that I mean Angus Scrimm).

side note, I can't even watch more than a minute of that guy. I mean the way he felt he had to point out that Rey being good with mechanics is 'totally fine'. right... I see, so girls being good at mechanics is plausible then? because girls can't be good at anything? they must be a subspecies or something yeah? this is the kind of crap we're talking about here. the whole of society stinks with it. I realised the other day, I was surprised when a romantic interest of mine was better than me at programming. I'm pretty good at it, but she is better. she does it as a hobby. I think that's pretty awesome, but why should I be surprised? truth is, I shouldn't. women are as capable as men at most stuff and men are as capable as women at most stuff. let women be builders and let men be nurses. let Rey be freaking awesome and let's not make a fuss about it because all it is, is a awesome character telling a story. you know what would be even better? if she wasn't born to ANY of the force users we are already aware of. if she was born to totally normal people. because then there would be no excuse. whether it was a girl or a boy, this character became awesome just-because. just because a normal person like you or I, can be exceptional. it's not about female empowerment (why is that seen as a negative thing anyway? talk about misogyny???) or about male empowerment (fin was pretty damn good at fighting that electric mace wielding guy even though he was a total rookie, sanitation guy) it's about making normal people feel empowered. the message behind the movie... doesn't matter who you are, you can be a racial minority, you can be a girl (god forbid!) and you can still be awesome! it really hurts me that this kind of message is seen as a bad thing or political agenda? bottom line... what is the political agenda? that women can be awesome? well I guess I should just shoot myself now if that is a crime.

Mirabilis, you are reading way too deep into this. You are basically making the same type of argument a SJW would make by assuming a political agenda where there is none. Don't embrace "The personal is political", cause that is what you are doing.

That CGI bleeds my eyes

It's the tone of voice. That really says it all. Here is a man who has figured it all out, who is privy to the secret undercurrent of truth that lies beneath the deceptive veneer of society. The name of the man's account, good grief. He's going to wake us all from the shared hallucination the feminist computers have lulled us into to harvest our masculine electricity and body heat to power - or should that be empower - their misoandric cyber-juggernauts. Thing is: who is Disney pandering to? If they are all about money - which of course they are, they are an American company - why would they focus on self-professed intellectuals and feminists? Did I miss the announcement that those became the leading economic brackets in US society? Why would Disney attempt to 'force a feminist agenda' on an unsuspecting audience? Cui bono? If they are about money, then that is their right. In fact that is the philosophy of all businesses. But then there seems no point to his argument. Is he accusing them of being greedy? Kind of unrealistic. Or is he accusing them of being political? Why would they be? Is the Disney company secretly headed by a feminist cabal that is stealthily, gradually reprogramming all young men and boys to admire and possibly emulate young women? Does he think that if they ever open that refrigerated coffin that is supposed to contain the cryogenically frozen remains of ol' uncle Walt, they will actually see the icy grin of Valerie Solanas? What does he think is the point of his hypothetical 'feminist agenda'? This seems to be less about society's issues than his own. Pretty good beard, though. Makes him look really manly even as he is whining like a woman. ...I just realized that what he is doing - is that actually what is meant when people use the obnoxious term 'mansplaining'?

I can't agree, Sean. Gantz was pretty meta. Guyver is much more straightforward. Also, welcome to the board.