Well, some people do pay attention to it, because it is an indicator of attitudes in general.
How many influential or normal people in 1968 viewed the James Bond character as misogynistic (as it was normally defined before liberals and feminists decided to commandeer the word, as they have with so many others to suit their corrosive agenda) as opposed to how many people today would use it. As an indicator of where we are as a culture, it is a small but telling piece, and I don’t think it is worth belittling.
I do take issue with the assumption that people cannot do two things at once, view this as an indicator of a problematic mind set in the western cultures, and at the same time, be able to view treatment of women in Hip/Hop/Islam and other things and keep them in context? Granted, there are some that cannot, but I think most people can manage it. There is plenty of bandwidth for outrage at Hip/Hop and Islam for their treatment of women, but be able to, at the same time, look askance at a celebrity who influences people with that rubbish.
It doesn’t mean we have to flagellate ourselves or hit our faces with boards in outrage because a film star said something stupid, but it doesn’t mean we have to be catatonic because we have to save the “outrage” for ISIS the Iranians, the Russians, or anything else.
Those who don’t look at the canary in the coal mine are going to wake up dead before the end of their shift.
“Those who don’t look at the canary in the coal mine are going to wake up dead before the end of their shift.”
I agree with the canary in the coal mine analogy, but kind of feel that we’ve ignored a significant number of major mine accidents, let alone ignoring the canary.