If you're watching a show about dragons or elves or lightsabers and instead of focusing on those and letting the actors carry their roles as individuals it keeps ramming modern day social issues in your face, the problem isn't the audience, it's the writers.
Not that sci fi and fantasy don't have a long and noble history of taking on contemporary social issues, but once upon a time it was done subtly, by dressing up the issue in fantastic trappings and letting it slide in as subtext, which I would even argue is more effective for generating social change as it doesn't engage the viewer's stubbornness by grabbing their collar and telling them "You're thinking wrong and you should feel bad," it just shows the protagonists coming to realize the conclusion you want to promote, or better yet shows them already acting in accordance with it and subtly draws attention to it after the fact, if at all, letting that behaviour sink in as a positive role model. I'm especially furious about how female characters are being written lately; if the only way your leading woman can look good is if all the men on screen are incompetent, useless idiots, that's a lot more misogynistic than your standard 90s "action girl has to prove herself to the team" set piece. Yes, even when Action Girl later needs to get helped out of a pinch by a dude, as long as the favor has been or is later returned, because that is how you show she's the equal of Action Guy.
TLDR: Equal wrongs is not equal rights
Not that sci fi and fantasy don't have a long and noble history of taking on contemporary social issues, but once upon a time it was done subtly, by dressing up the issue in fantastic trappings and letting it slide in as subtext, which I would even argue is more effective for generating social change as it doesn't engage the viewer's stubbornness by grabbing their collar and telling them "You're thinking wrong and you should feel bad," it just shows the protagonists coming to realize the conclusion you want to promote, or better yet shows them already acting in accordance with it and subtly draws attention to it after the fact, if at all, letting that behaviour sink in as a positive role model. I'm especially furious about how female characters are being written lately; if the only way your leading woman can look good is if all the men on screen are incompetent, useless idiots, that's a lot more misogynistic than your standard 90s "action girl has to prove herself to the team" set piece. Yes, even when Action Girl later needs to get helped out of a pinch by a dude, as long as the favor has been or is later returned, because that is how you show she's the equal of Action Guy.
TLDR: Equal wrongs is not equal rights
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‎noli esse culus
‎noli esse culus