The Force Awakens has a lot of flaws, playing it mostly safe, but one bold move (to the credit of J.J. Abrams?) is to have made our (male) heroes some sad old losers!
Why does it have to be a gender thing? Why are so many people on here acting like Disney Star Wars is some evil woke plot to emasculate white men and replace them with women and minorities? If you’re trying to portray sequel hate as entirely apolitical and not right-wing at all, using literal right-wing rhetoric does not help your case.
Like I said, TFA had tons of problems with how it decided to continue the OT’s story, but I’d say those problems were caused less by “wokeness” and more by laziness. JJ figured “Well, people hate the prequels and prefer the OT, let’s make the new era exactly like the OT! What do you mean, it would feel insulting to have the galaxy fall into darkness again after the OT heroes fought so hard to restore the Republic? We have X-Wings again, no one will care!”