The audience isn't stagnant though, the Switch audience has nearly doubled the previous generation.

The comment I was responding to said that "these days" Nintendo hates their franchises/audience and that people are leaving as a result; I don't see any actual evidence of this.

Disney bought Marvel in 2009 and Lucasfilm in 2012, for a while they had the biggerst IPs for young male audience. After the Infinity saga there's been huge decline, although I'd give them credit for actually trying something new and different. The Infinity saga worked because the world had cohesion and you could expect certain quality from every film they made even if it wasn't that good to begin with. Now they're ranging from basically being serious like Quantumania or Multiverse of Madness with bad writing to something complete foolishness like Love and Thunder with bad writing. Basically what they had for young men is being driven to ground either by stupidity or laziness. 

I think eventually the get Marvel and Star Wars back to catering their core audience after a reboot or two. Kind of the problem Marvel is, that they already dissolved it and integrated everything with Disney, so Marvel can't operate independently anymore.

I believe we all agree on women doing more housework than men. I am arguing whether it's because of chores being women's work or because of women choosing to do more of them.

If we remove everyone's anecdotes from the data, we don't have data at all. In your case, you've managed to agree on something that most can't - congratulations.

Most often it seems to be women who complain about the chores and considering today's generations have been raised by mothers, we should also ask why don't mothers teach their sons to do housework.

Well, they're cultural issues because it's human nature. They have become cultural issues because that's the way human's act.

People complain when society assumes women are better parents, because they aren't. If yo follow the data, kids raised by single fathers succeed in life roughly as good as kids raised in nuclear families, whereas kids raised by single mothers end up being the worst - still society favours mothers. Mothers aren't better parents than fathers, they're just different. Women being more interested in raising kids doesn't make them better parents, especially if their interest ends for some reason or another. Men on the other hand have the advantage of understanding kids being their responsibility. Women have kids when they want kids, men have kids when they're ready to have the respondibility. 

There's another clip I can't find from him (maybe he was on someone else's podcast at the time) where Jordan talks about studies where they take very young infants, young enough that they can't be trained or really have any bias yet, and are put in a room with boys and girls toys and they simply watch to see who picks what, trying different variations of this with different locations and toys and toy placements. It was something very high, like 95% of the time, the boys picked the boy toys and the girls picked the girl toys.

Knowing these things, it's not hard to see why men pick certain roles and why woman pick others, and also why we as a society tend to prefer men and woman in certain roles. There are things that men and woman tend to be more interested in or better at, and we as a society like to be catered to with as much ease as is possible.

It's why as to the housework/chores point, society see's that as more of a woman's role. While "stuff" or "things" have to be done in order to accomplish housework, the men aren't as interested and don't really care about the end result so much which is people. Where as the woman cares much more about the people who will benefit from the chores, which is why the housework they do tends to be done much better and is more appreciated. Same reason why you probably want a female or gay male interior decorator. Hiring a straight man would more likely leave your house feeling empty and dull.

None of this is to say however, that men or woman have to do certain things. Everyone has a choice for the most part, as to what you want to do, who you want to hire, or simply how to divvy up tasks.

It's like I'm watching time turn back to the 80s while reading this thread. My mother (who was an active feminist, Rooie Vrouwen in de PVDA) would roll over in her grave reading some of these comments.

As for my own anecdote, we both do what we're most efficient at. Me cleaning and grocery shopping, my wife cooking, both dealing with school and doctor stuff.

And yes of course there's biology at play in motherhood. But we as a species have to evolve away from primal genetic programming or civilization will not survive (again). The signs of Western Civilizations regressing are everywhere.

As for Disney movies. I lost interest in them for all the live remakes, nothing to do with female leads. Disney simply ran out of 'original' content and keeps rehashing the same stuff over and over. Little Mermaid, Jungle Book, Lion King, Aladdin, Pocahontas and Mulan got me into Disney as a 'young man'. Where did that creativity go.

Same place it always goes when entities get to big and have to much power/control for too long.

It goes out the window.

It's part of the reason why we used to make sure to break up entities that had gotten "to large to fail".

In the foreseeable future, not move away from genetic programming, but better balance it with efficiency, as your top point explains.

Moving away from fight or flight would doom the West when it comes to its enemies. That doesn't mean the West has to constantly wage war, but it also doesn't allow the West to move beyond it. The West must balance it as efficiently as it can, for now.

Evolve beyond it eventually, far easier said than done, perhaps, but until then, it's a balancing act.

Except they're not. 

A lot of the things that you're talking about have been different in different cultures and different times because they're largely not human nature. And even the things that tend to be influenced by human nature, are still hugely suggestible by changing culture. 

I actually just saw someone explain your latter claim that single fathers have better outcomes. A big reason is that culturally people expect that single fathers need more support. 

They're making remakes because their original content isn't good enough anymore. What you said is in the heart of the problem: they think "female lead" in a sloppy story gets people to watch their films for being progressive. The Force Awakens and Rogue One were released a year apart, FA gets all the hate and RO all the praise. Both were Star Wars films and both had a female lead. The story of Rogue One was made in early 2000's when they still were making the prequel trilogy, so it was still made the young men in mind instead of "modern audiences". 

Western society is regressing, in part that's because of the 3rd world immigration where the culture is more conservative than it is in the west, but also the youth today is more conservative than their parents. It's starting to look like that generation X is going to be the most progressive generation.