‘Gen V’ Is No Longer a Warning. It's a Mirror

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We’re two weeks and four episodes into the spinoff’s second season. We return to The Boys ’ universe of shiny corporate fascism. This in-fiction world echoes back at us — magnified and Technicolor-bright — the current real-world regime’s broken-record anti-DEI, anti-woke, anti-trans ultra-nationalist narrative, right down to the “trans person in the bathroom” demonizing line. Subtle it is not and has never been—and right now, I say that’s good. Homelander appears on a shirt flipping you off with a smile, under the banner “Sorry, Snowflake.” The language of “resistance” appears in the flimsy activist counterHomelander, which is invoked to inspire fear in order to maintain control. The term “race traitor” crops u

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