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As you probably already know, I grew up in the 1980s. Much (though not all) of my personality, philosophies, and tastes directly result from 1980’s American culture.

According to just about every study I have read, the percentage of gay people in the United States and most other Western countries is around 2%, plus or minus. I didn’t say LGBTQ+ is 2%. I said GAY people are around 2%, perhaps 3%. Right-wingers will scream that it’s more like 1% and left-wingers will scream it’s around 10%, but as usual, both sides are insane and the hard data doesn’t reflect either of those numbers.

In the 1980s, if you were in that 2% gay group, you had to hide it from most people or else you had some real problems. You were ridiculed mercilessly if you didn’t hide it, especially if you were a man.

As a reflection of this culture, If you watched movies and TV shows in the 80s, there were never any gay characters. In the very rare cases where a gay character was present, it was always a side character irrelevant to the plot, and the character was almost always portrayed as either goofy or evil.

I was aware of gay people in the 1980s as a kid and a teenager, and I remember thinking this was strange. I remember having conversations with my dad at the time about why there were never any gay people in movies/TV shows even though gay people clearly existed in society. I didn’t know the 2% figure back then, but I was curious why a 2% demographic was represented about 0% of the time. Black people and Hispanics were represented in movies in the 80s, so why not gay people? I thought that was odd. (I didn’t understand it was because the 1980s was an era controlled by the cultural right.)

Fast forward to today. Now the extreme left is in control of the culture. Today, damn near every TV show you watch has a prominent gay character who essentially looks at the camera in the first or second episode and screams at the audience “I’M GAY!” just to make damn sure the audience knows.

It doesn’t matter if the TV show is a drama, comedy, historical, sci-fi, fantasy, cop show, or whatever, even a cartoon. There’s always at least one and sometimes multiple prominent gay characters, even if the show is displaying a setting where having gay characters doesn’t make any sense.

I hate TV shows but my wife (unfortunately) enjoys watching TV shows and when we’re together I will watch a TV show with her once a day because that’s what she likes. Whenever we start a new show, I will always play a little game called How Many Minutes Before They Introduce The Overtly Gay Character. Unless it’s a show written by Taylor Sheridan, it always happens, usually in the first episode. That’s when I look at my phone and say, “26 minutes!” or “13 minutes!”

It’s fucking hilarious.

So we’ve gone from representing a 2% demographic 0% of the time, which was stupid, to representing a 2% demographic 99% of the time, which is also stupid. The overcorrection is just as bad as the valid problem it was trying to correct for, if not more so.

Watching any modern TV shows will implant the message that gay people represent about 20-30% of the population instead of just 2%. This is why so many people are shocked when they hear that 2% figure. Hell, even YOU probably thought something like “Wait a minute… gay people are only 2%? No, no. There’s got to be more gay people than that.” You think that because of the barrage of left-wing societal programming that’s been screaming at you for about 15 years that gay people are everywhere. But they aren’t; go look up the actual stats and you’ll see for yourself.

This is all because we live in an era of overcorrection. Since gay people weren’t represented at all for so long, we now need to over-represent the shit out of them and plaster them all over the place to make up for the fact we were all a bunch of evil, oppressive homophobes for so long.

It’s the same with women in movies and TV shows. Because we evil people showed women as pretty damsels in distress for so long, we now need to show 90% of women in movies and TV shows as physically strong, mentally powerful, independent, nonsexual, dominant Mary Sue ass-kickers who don’t need men at all. A massive and ridiculous overcorrection.

It’s also what happened with the Me Too movement. Because we let a percentage of horrible men abuse women in Hollywood for so long, Me Too didn’t target just horrible men, but all men who dated women. For every evil piece of shit like Harvey Weinstein or Bill Cosby who got taken down (good), one or two other men who did nothing wrong also got taken down, like Aziz Ansari, Matt Lauer, Johnny Depp, and many others I could list. Overcorrection again.

It’s interesting to observe which groups the current left-wing overlords of modern-day culture choose to overcorrect on and the groups they don’t. For example, black people make up 13.7% of the population of the USA. They make up 13.4% of film casts and 11% – 14% of lead roles, pretty much exactly what their actual demographic is. Good. That’s an example of the system working correctly in my view, but wait a minute, why aren’t black people massively overrepresented like other minorities are? Why don’t the left-wingers in control of pop culture overrepresent the hell out of black people the same way they do with women and gay people? Gay people went from 0% representation to 99%. Why didn’t they move black people from 13% to at least 40% or 50% or something instead of keeping them at 13%?

Hmmmm. Makes you think, doesn’t it?

The entire COVID-19 pandemic was an overcorrection… on both sides. As I reported in detail in my blogs and my videos, (largely) left-wingers screamed at everyone that if you didn’t wear a mask (which didn’t work unless it was an N-95 mask which no one wore), social distanced (which we know for a fact didn’t work at all), stay in your homes (which didn’t work because of the repeated lockdowns countries mandated), and get vaccinated (which didn’t prevent the spread of the disease at all) then you were literally trying to murder their grandma, even though COVID-19 had a death rate of only 1% (exactly as I predicted at my blogs at the time).

Right-wingers also overcorrected. They screamed at people (including me) that they weren’t going to wear a mask because that would force them to breathe their own carbon dioxide (which is scientifically impossible because carbon dioxide molecules are far smaller than any hole in a mask) and that they weren’t going to get the vaccine because it would give them ED (which I proved using data was incorrect) or myocarditis (which I again proved with data was incorrect).

To be clear, I never got the vaccine because, unlike most people, no one country controls me; I’m self-employed with a location-independent Alpha 2.0 Business and live a Five Flags lifestyle. I’m not saying getting the vaccine was a good idea. I’m saying a hell of a lot of you right-wingers went just as insane during the pandemic as the beta male left did.

As a matter of fact, in this era of overcorrection, it’s not just the left doing it. The right (or nominal right, since the modern-day version of the right really isn’t right anymore) is also engaging in this.

Both Donald Trump and Andrew Tate are direct results of overcorrection. Men, especially white men and young men, after being screamed at for 15 years by the left-wing cultural overlords of the modern-day Collapsing West that they are horrible people and everything is their fault, snapped in 2016 and said, “Okay motherfuckers, you think I’m terrible, here you go, TRUMP!” And thus, a childlike, drug-addicted, big-government Alpha Male 1.0 who wanted to shoot nukes at hurricanes and thought Russia owned Finland became president of the USA, something that would never have happened in any other era where overcorrection wasn’t a cultural norm.

In an era where masculinity is portrayed as evil, young men overcorrected and flocked to Andrew Tate, a man who is a caricature of what a 14-year-old boy thinks is a real man: a rich, angry, ripped guy who drives Bugattis, smokes cigars, has sex with multiple women who live in his house and obey him like a Sultan (and throw him in prison when they get upset), and is almost constantly angry, screaming his head off non-stop. Another massive and hilarious overcorrection that would never have happened in any other era. We had masculine role models in the 1980s, but they weren’t anywhere near the in-your-face, over-the-top character of Andrew Tate, a guy right out of a 1990s comedy movie.

The goal of a properly functioning, prosperous, and happy society is to not overcorrect but to instead return to equilibrium.

Here’s what equilibrium means, and this is only an example. Imagine a society where:

• The priority of men and women was to work together, using their strengths to benefit both.
• Where in movies and TV shows, you see a gay character every once in a while and that person is portrayed no differently (as in no better and no worse) than any of the straight characters.
• Strong kickass characters in movies and TV shows are usually men, who rescue not just women, but other men too.
• Sometimes you see strong kickass women too, which would be great (remember Ripley from Aliens and Sarah Conner from Terminator 2?) but it’s about 30% of the time, not 95% of the time.
• All races, including whites, are represented in movies/TV shows about equal to their actual demographics in the country. This means that in 2024 America (for example) about 13% of characters would be black (not radically more or less), 20% would be Hispanic (not radically more or less), and 6% would be Asian (not radically more or less). And this includes lead characters, not just side characters. And by the way, this also means that only 61% of characters in movies/TV shows would be white(!), not 90% and not 40%.
• When men acted like abusive assholes to women, women would punish those men, but not assume that all men were like this or that society encouraged all men to be like this.
• When men looked up to masculine role models, these would be men like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clint Eastwood, Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, and so forth. Goofy characters like Andrew Tate, Donald Trump, Dan Bilzerian, and Elon Musk wouldn’t exist in pop culture (or have very tiny niche audiences if they did).
• When women looked up to feminine role models, these would be women like Oprah Winfrey, Taylor Swift, Martha Stewart, or J.K. Rowling. Angry extremist bitches like Hillary Clinton, AOC, or Greta Thunberg would be completely ignored by women, perhaps even ridiculed.

And so on. You never want overcorrection from the left or the right to be the goal. Equilibrium and rationality should be the goal, at least at the societal level.

Whenever you start to worship a particular famous person or movement, you need to always ask yourself these questions:

“Am I being 100% rational and objective?”

“Am angry about something?”

“Am I overreacting to something?”

The odds are pretty good that you are. That’s when you need to, as I always say, take three deep breaths, calm down, and turn on your brain. You may be contributing to society’s era of overcorrection, and this won’t make you happy.

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