Woke Culture

[*Peter*]

"Woke" technically means "aware of the problems with discrimination and other unfair societal attitudes", which of course typically implies that people are determined to do something against those injustices.
When it comes to movies and video games, this could be presented by doing things such as presenting women as stronger characters that aren't just there as eye candy (and actually talk to other female characters about something that doesn't have anything to do with men), and also to present ethnic groups in ways that aren't racist.

However, if this is overdone, then it can come off as a bit preachy, and this is typically what some people call "woke" by its more pejorative meaning;
for example, a female character might be presented as a Mary Sue who is always super-strong and never makes any mistakes
(and this then also makes it hard to develop that character throughout the storyline).
This would of course also be a problem for male characters, but that is exactly why it shouldn't also be done with female characters.

Another common mistake is to present homosexual characters as essentially "the homosexual characters", with very little depth apart from that;
the way I see it, the proper way to present a homosexual character in a way that will be well-received by viewers and players is to start with developing that character without focusing so much on his or her orientation, and then, once that foundation has been developed, they can add the orientation as well, maybe along with the struggles that homosexual characters can experience in real life, such as disapproving looks from other people, harassment, and so on.