The never-ending battle against woke Hollywood and SJW infused entertainment media [trigger warning]

In the interest of playing Devil's Advocate.

This is a guy who is not woke (far from it) and is a long-time 40K fan who primaries the Custodes and he doesn't have a problem with the lore change, but he makes a clear distinction for why female custodes are okay and female space marines are not okay.

His interpretation and supposition fits the facts, and it provides an explanation that GW actually was sitting on this idea a long time and are not "going woke" or being extorted by Amazon or Black Rock.

I hope he's right. I don't think he's right, but I hope he's right.

I find the more plausible theory that I've seen a few places.

1) Amazon wanted female Space Marines for their upcoming show
2) Games Workshop did not want female Space Marines
3) Female Custodes was a compromise
4) the leak of Custodes was a GW employee wanting to draw blowback to signal to GW and Amazon that "This was a bad idea and female Space Marines would fly even worse."

Evidence for this theory is GW put in a snippet of lore to justify a female custodes character in the show but they didn't release a model to back it up, so they aren't really invested in this.

There are other theories too. I'm waiting for facts.

I wasn't going to start a 40K army right away anyway. I just bought the 10th edition rule book. If I am reasonably sure 40K isn't going to be destroyed by Woke Cancel Pigs, then I will start collecting Imperial Guard, and probably go Cadian theme unless I come up with something better.

If I think 40K is sliding down a slippery slope, I won't start collecting.

 

I generally agree with Endymon, but he never says anything unless its worth taking a long time to say it which is frustrating.

This is a general problem with the 40K thing, there isn't much new information but people are still mad about it so Youtubers and other Internet armchair quarter backs are milking tiny tidbit into long articles/videos.

 

I work in a grocery store. I was concerned that food prices were not increasing fast enough between general inflation, rising fuel prices affecting food processing, famines in China and Africa, and wartime disruption in the bread basket that is Ukraine. Now I can rest easier knowing that American agriculture is about to become a lot less efficient.

 

I was going to put my head in the sand because I smelled some wokeness on Bruce Timm's new Batman project. And I like Bruce Timm. It's still early, and in any event I can watch Bruce Timm's older stuff if I don't like his newer stuff.

Here is an optimistic piece about the culture war.