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Star Wars: Correcting the Phallocratic Bias
Flow the sweet male tears of the toxic Gamergate neckbeard fanboys! They’ll hate this because they’re so fragile.
It’s a “Star Wars for Kids” recreation of a few scenes that really, truly powerfully empower Leia to be the badass she actually was, instead of someone who required male assistance to get out of a jail cell. This requires the animators to make Han and Luke into fraidy-dolts who just can’t handle someone so empoweredly powerful. You can almost feel the glee of the creators knowing the wrong-fans would be annoyed.
“Well, akkshually,” the neckbeards might say, “you’ve taken a character who was brave, resourceful, sarcastic, vulnerable, resilient, and eminently feminine into a parody of your own stultified conception of ‘anger’ as the most ennobling personality trait one can possess, which reduces women to an irrational emotional state.”
Animators: “we rest our case! Go play with your Boba Fetts if you can stand to take them out of the original box.”
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Love both the video and the post! (Does that make me a “wrong fan” or a “right fan?”)
We need to correct the Disney bias in Star Wars.
I think you’ll find that they are already melting down their action figures…
I am a man, and the Star Wars character I most identified with was Princess Leia. She was young as Luke, but did not whine. She stood up to Vadar and Tarkin. Sure she was physically weak (like I was a scrawny 7 year old) and needed to be rescued. But she was a leader! Other people were muscle. Leia lead others.
And if you want bad-ass action with Leia, was everything on the Forrest Moon of Endor not enough?
Also, Han shot first.
For the SJWs, it’s not enough that women be built up. Men must also be torn down. It’s the typical zero-sum
thinkingfeeling we’ve come to expect from the Left.Absolutely. Also, the G-men in E.T. were holding guns, not radios. At least Spielberg has the spine to admit he made a mistake: https://www.slashfilm.com/steven-spielberg-regrets-altering-et-raiders-hit-bluray-original-forms/
Well, I’m not sure what it says about you as a man that a back benching bossy woman is your hero. Leia is a good woman indeed, and she was smart, but the main heroes were definitely the men. Luke was the young boy trying to learn to be a man, Han was the more mature one but jaded, Obi Wan was the wise one, and Chew(ingto)bacca was the muscle. The four men were different facets of the ideal man.
It’s easy to second guess those who act, as Leia did. While they were fighting, she was able to look around for more solutions, but that didn’t make her the most heroic. Mostly she complained like a spoiled rich girl, and somewhat ungrateful. No one would see this in a different way back in 1977, that was a well known stock character.
Where did her vaunted empoweredly powerful leadership lead them?
RIGHT INTO THE GARBAGE COMPACTOR.
Comes complete with monster.
In her defense, the phallically-entubulated holding cell corridor was going to leave them subject to the mercy of the Patriarchy Troopers.
Well maybe they can go back to the bar scene and have Leia shoot first.
Royalty have grunts fight and die for them because they are too important to die. In a similar fashion, women have men fight and die for them because they are more important than men because they make babies. The traditional idea of men being brave accepts that men are expendable and can be used up in wars and coal-mining jobs. By having women being brave, we accept that women must suffer as men have suffered. No one really wants that.
I liked Leia for her leadership qualities. I did not expect her to fight. She had different skills and different roles. Had she been a slight male, it would have made no difference. Tarkin was no match for Vader in a fight, yet he commanded Vader and Vader treated him with respect.
All I am saying is that Leia does not need to fight to be a role model. I saw her as one. I guess, for y’all, that personal experience is somehow invalid because of male-female culture wars.
Yes, these turn everything up to 11. (Go watch the one where Luke gets his light saber.) The only thing that isn’t just an exaggeration of what we actually see on screen is Leia ordering troops around (which we see her do in Empire).
Luke and Han were pretty bumbling in the Death Star escape.
“We’re fine, we’re all fine here, now… Thank you… How are you?”
“This is some rescue! When you came in here didn’t you have a plan for getting out?” “HE’S the brains, Sweetheart!”
“Blast it will you! My guns jammed!” “Where?” “ANYWHERE!”
“Find the controls that extend the bridge!” “I think I just blasted it.”
I always point out that the Hutt that put Leia in that bikini got strangled with his own chain. I’m glad that got included.
I’m the farthest thing from a SJW, but Leia is and always has been awesome.