Does popular culture represent people fairly, or does it reinforce a narrow default?

Hank said in 2014 that big movies keep under-representing the same groups and reinforce a male, white default, and in 2020 that individualist stories leave many people unable to see themselves.

Axis: represents people fairly ... reinforces a narrow default

Positions by date: 5 records in 5 videos. The position did not change in these records.

John

date	how	position	video
2014-09-09	first on record	John says news and movies reduce Africa to war, pirates, refugees and disease, while real stories are more complicated and compelling.	Going to College (in Ethiopia) 00:03:29
2017-07-25	restate	John says mental illness is highly stigmatized in our culture but also sometimes romanticized, as in TV shows where a mentally ill person goes off their meds to catch a terrorist, or obsessive detectives.	What OCD Is Like (for Me) 00:02:26
2017-12-05	restate	After two months of talks on telling the story visually without the old OCD tropes, John announces that the studio and production company behind his earlier films will try to make a Turtles movie.	On the Movies 00:02:51

Hank

date	how	position	video
2014-10-10	first on record	Hank's biggest problem with Batman and billion-dollar mass-culture movies: they keep under-representing the same groups and reinforce a male, white default.	I Kinda AM Batman 00:02:31
2020-11-13	restate	Hank says focusing only on individualist stories can do harm: many people can't see themselves in them, both as representation and because they face barriers others don't.	How We Teach: Individualist Stories 00:02:54