Comments by "Common Sense Craziness" (@commonsensecraziness7595) on "Director BUSTED Begging For Positive Reviews After Amazon's Woke A League Of Their Own Roasted!" video.

Amazing how they wanted to reimagine the source material, but created a character in the show that is basically copying the Rosie O'Donnell character.
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The creators basically claimed the Lesbian lifestyle of the players was a prominent part of their life story that needed to be omitted by Peggy Marshall's movie version because at the time there would have been a lack of acceptance. So they wanted to revisit that. Seems to me they did that and then some. Not sure how historically it actually is, though, just that that was the claim of the creators.
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The creators basically claimed the Lesbian lifestyle of the players was a prominent part of their life story that needed to be omitted by Peggy Marshall's movie version because at the time there would have been a lack of acceptance. So they wanted to revisit that. Seems to me they did that and then some. Not sure how historically it actually is, though, just that that was the claim of the creators. It's relevant though, if true, to recognize that 90% of the female players at that time were gay in a time when being gay literally meant criminality and arrest (if not worse).
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The creators were claiming they were doing just that. That the fact that 90% of the league was gay, and that was a part of the story that couldn't be told in the Peggy Marshall version.
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@checkyoursixgaming I haven't watched the final two episodes yet, but the only retcon I can see so far is the trans character they created that has nothing to do with the baseball that they decided to shoe horn into the storyline. The black character never joins the team to play in any of the episodes I've watched. So unless it happens in the final two episodes (and I doubt Jeremy has watched any) that part is just wrong. The black character has her own storyline during the series where she tries to join the companies all-male team but that's a corporate team that has nothing to do with the all-american women's team (and doesn't succeed in eps 1-6).
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@checkyoursixgaming Black people existed. They had their own baseball leagues. There's plenty of documentation if you care to look. Yes any interactions they had with the actual baseball team was likely limited, if it happened at all. And that's actually reflected in the show, for the most part although they did take a few moments of artistic license. But at no time does the series insinuate black women played on the all-american women's team. And although there's no evidence of a trans person, they likely did exist. Yes, it's a woke shoe horn, but it's not a retcon because they're not implying anything changed in the actual story. However, the fact that there were Lesbians in the All-American baseball team that we're talking about is indisputable. Many of the players directly involved acknowledged many years later. One of the women didn't come out until age 93. It's not retconning to acknowledge that these things happened but were hidden from view.
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@jacobyrassilon Yes, I agree that 90% does seem high, but then, I didn't personally talk to the actual ball players (the show runners claimed they did). On a personal note, and I realize this is anecdotal, but my mother played ball. And she told me many times how shocked she was at the number of lesbians (closeted or otherwise). She told me there were virtually no heterosexual women on the ball team she played on or on any of the teams she played against. She didn't care because she was there to play ball, but judging from my own personal experience, it seems just as likely as not that this might actually be true.
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