It got a big boost from being featured prominently on Netflix’s Umbrella Academy. Their playlist has 100,000+ saves on Spotify.

Not to the same level of course, but similar to how Kate Bush and Metallica got massive boosts from Stranger Things.

British people's brains sail away to Neverland somewhere around the age of forty-seven.

It's a known condition. Symptoms are even more pronounced in the wealthy and the divorced.

You're not wrong. These days, if you say you like women, you get arrested and thrown in jail. 

Noel, who also has a daughter Anais, 23, with ex-wife Meg Mathews, accused women of, little by little, eroding young men’s confidence. He said: “I’ve got two young sons and I feel anxious for young guys.

“They don’t really know how to behave with all this woke s**t that’s now foisted upon everybody.

“Angry, white middle-aged women telling young guys how to behave and all this b******s."

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Lotta people commenting on what it's like for young men "these days" here, none of which are young men.

Well, I'm one! And it's all bollocks.

Women are great, our confidence is fine. In fact, if you're so fragile in your confidence and patterns of behaviour that it can be eroded by reading things you don't like online, I'd suggest you weren't exactly Bruce Willis in Die Hard to start with.  I'm not even sure what behaviour or kinds of chat it is that I'm supposed to be gagged against by "wokeism" or this cabal of middle-aged women; people talk about it all in quite vague terms, for some reason. 

If you do want a specific: a video was shared last week where a man put a drug into a woman's drink in a public bar, and not one man around him said a thing. About three of them laughed at the sight. It was only when a woman noticed that anyone stepped in. If you want to worry about young people and sexual attitudes, I'd start with that kind of thing and then move on to "You can't even tell a bird she's got great tits, these days!" later. 

Or, if Noel is talking about snorting coke, playing rock, and shagging around; I can tell you those are all very much still good hobbies in working-class youth-culture. Young people at festivals aren't there to play Monopoly. 

Here's a scan of the interview. Enjoy!

That sounds nice, but no. 

I didn't learn on my own, at all. Having the voices of women amplified was a big part of learning how a lot of the things I'd learned were, at the best, not flattering. I'm grateful to them; it hasn't eroded my confidence in the slightest, it's given me a fuller view of life and that's a good thing. My girlfriend would certainly agree, I'm sure.

Contrary to what the culture war might tell you, no-one is expected to be perfect. Tyler the Creator was once lambasted for his misogynistic lyrics, but his growth since then has made him a pop-culture favourite. I could list more: even the Gallaghers are examples of people who have behaved like dickheads without being thrown in jail with a finished career by the Woke Police. So am I, and so are all of us. There's nothing to be scared of.

Look, the corporate/PR side of "political correctness" is irritating. It's okay to tell rude jokes, it's okay to flirt, it's okay to enjoy that girl getting her tits out in Familiar to Millions; we all roll our eyes at that clandestine advertising culture where everything is squeaky-clean and inclusive and smug. But underneath that, in the real world, there's no middle-aged woman cult emasculating men. There's no Thought Police, or perma-offended snowflake army, or neo-Marxist loony-left takeover. In the list of things for Noel Gallagher to have anxiety about, his sons being exposed to modern feminism should be as low down in the charts as Sunday Morning Call was in the USA. 

I hope Noel doesn't even know who Tate is tbh

Noel probably still thinks the internet is on dial-up, I think we're safe there.

My mother uses twitter too but I doubt she knows who Andrew Tate is

To say woke culture isn’t a thing is ridiculous (at least in the U.S.). Of course it’s real; it’s far left ideology. Same as the far right being called nazis or nationalists. The label might not meet the exact definition of the terms used to identify these types of ideologies, but it’s definitely real.

"Woke" is a shadow on the wall; it reveals nothing about the wall, but tells us a lot about where the image is being projected from. I hate to derail the thread (again) but here's The Story of "Woke"...

The fact is that all societies have political ideas inherent in them, which most people who grow up in those societies will see as apolitical common sense. And a lot of them are! All of us believe, for instance, in the idea that no vote should count more than another. All votes should be equal. They're not, of course, but we do seem to believe that they should be. Fine. That's an old Greek political idea, and it is quite common-sense. The trouble is, not all of them are so clear-cut. In the UK and the US, for instance, these ideas are quite baked-in:

- Capitalism the best form of society possible. 
- Democracy is defined by elections within the state.
- Animal suffering contains little, if any, moral dimension.
- Oasis were the best band of the nineties by fucking miles.
- Gender and sex are bound inherently and are unchangeable.
- State police is a necessary and inherent feature of practical justice.
- Systemic racism is a historical concern - individual racism is the issue.
- Etc, etc, etc. You really could list a hundred of them. 

Whether you agree with these ideas or not, the point is that you didn't come up with them. They're part of the ideology that you grew up in, and for most they are seen as apolitical, or at least centrist; no-one can argue against Champagne Supernova, for instance. And here's the spicy bit: most people in our societies, who follow most of those things to some degree or another, like to consider themselves liberal. Who doesn't? Hey, compared to their parents, they probably are! But what if someone says those ideas are not liberal enough?

Jesus! How far-left must they be?! The world is going mad! 

And, yeah. It is. The trouble is that things are fucked up, and the world is mad. Capitalism is destroying the environment, billions of animals are tortured and murdered as part of that every year, democracy seems a vacant dream when most people want socialised healthcare and no-one gets it. Young people make less money than their parents, they've fuck-all chance of a house, and some people still pretend that Blur were better. 

So, the younger generation is more willing to question the assumptions of society than their parents were.

But when young people have an interest in something, guess who does as well? Corporations! Yay!

Corporations take the progressive challenges of young people and turn it into advertising. Bastards Bank: Where All Races and Genders are Ripped-Off Equally. We're a good corporation, we've put 43% non-white people on our billboard! Let's edit old episodes of Fawlty Towers even though no-one fucking asked us to. Etc, etc. 

Sports Illustrated put a gorgeous transgender woman on their cover this month. Good for her. But did they do it because she was the hottest model, or because they care about trans-rights? Did they fuck. They did it to look good to younger people, and to get free advertising from right-wingers who would kick off about it online. People want to be able to tell rude jokes in bad taste sometimes, to be imperfect, and this insincere culture of politically correct posturing makes most people want to throw up, naturally. This is how people buy into the idea of "woke".

They see a "woke culture", and they dislike it.

But these people again, have assumed ideas. They don't think of these things happening in the dynamics of capitalism: they see young people saying mad "far-left" stuff, and the world going mental with it all. The truth is that "woke" is not an ideology; the suffocating PC-ness people baulk at is the failure of our dominant cultural institutions to react to progressive thinking meaningfully, since that thinking undermines their existence. All they can do is posture at them, like an glass-eyed James-Corden-style Late Night Host. When that's what people see, they conflate it with the challenges, and call it "woke". 

So, that's where we end up.

Don't be dickheads to women? Woke.

We should change capitalism all-together? Woke.

We should change capitalism a little? Woke.

Finding an overweight woman attractive in a magazine? Woke.

Winston Churchill was a racist? Woke.

The Royal Family is a bad institution? Woke.

This character in a game has smaller tits than before? You better believe that's woke. 

There's no single ideology behind any of this stuff. It's a hodgepodge of various challenges to various political assumptions, made by a variety of people with a variety of aims. The vast majority of "woke" people think capitalism is the best system after all, but after questioning it, they want to make some changes. A large portion of them think that transgender people in sports should be taken on a case-by-case basis, but that transgender identity is valid and deserves rights. Yes, some of them are nutters who think all sex is rape, but the only reason that's part of "woke" is because woke is a vapid term that can be thrown at any challenge to any assumed belief to make it seem far-left and hysterical. And that's... not good. There's an imbalance of power and of number here. If you convince a lot of people that their cultural traditions are being attacked by a far-left monolith, and that this is the biggest issue they face? Well, that's happened before. It doesn't end well. 

I'll leave you with this tweet from the wonderful Shaun, which is more insightful than it might first appear: