{"id":105777,"date":"2016-04-11T19:29:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/11\/for-years-star-wars-has-had-a-bunch-of-female\/"},"modified":"2016-04-11T19:29:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:29:23","slug":"for-years-star-wars-has-had-a-bunch-of-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/11\/for-years-star-wars-has-had-a-bunch-of-female\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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For years Star Wars has had a bunch of female fans. It has a huge female fanbase, as it does a male fanbase, obviously. And there is no reason that this world would not, and should not be populated by more women and by more people of color. And this movie is showing us that \u201cNo, no, no, they\u2019ve always been there.\u201d. Now, you can go back and say, you know, the original trilogies just happened to focus on these three white people that were kind of related, but like, they\u2019ve always been there. And I think it\u2019s fantastic. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s already been an outcry about how this movie has another female lead. It\u2019s ridiculous because the critics of it, I think they\u2019re dudes and they\u2019re white dudes, in terms of the thing about people of color now being in the movie, that it\u2019s essentially, somebody else is playing with your toys and you\u2019re upset. You think that if there are other faces, then it\u2019s not for you anymore. But it\u2019s been for everybody this entire time. I always get the argument of like \u201cWait, can\u2019t women and people of color relate to someone who doesn\u2019t look like them?\u201d and I go right back to you, \u201cCan\u2019t you?\u201d. Of course you can. Of course you can relate to a good story, if it happens to be a woman, if it happens to be a person of color, if it happens to be Forest Whitaker, Diego Luna – great actors. You can\u2019t use that argument. And I think that these characters look super intriguing, no matter what they happen to look like. They look badass and they look really cool. And you know, there\u2019s no better revenge to those types of critics who want Star Wars to stay a certain way, than to just be like \u201cNo look, we\u2019re gonna get movies that have all different kinds of people, and aliens and spaceships.\u201d. <\/p>\n

\nAnd if you have the attitude of like \u201cWell, it\u2019s pandering\u201d, my question to you is, do you think the original Star Wars are pandering to white males, and only white males, and therefore you should be just as offended, because it\u2019s not inclusive? If you\u2019re trying to argue that this isn\u2019t inclusive – the reason that these movies and new movies going forward are focusing on that, that Hollywood \u2018has\u2019 to do that, it\u2019s because they\u2019re trying to better represent the world. Here\u2019s the thing. Here\u2019s white dudes in every movie ever [holding one hand high up], and here\u2019s everybody else [holding other hand much lower down], and what this movie did is just that [raising lowest hand a tiny fraction]. In five years from now it will be maybe here, twenty years from now we\u2019ll be maybe here [raising hand gradually until it matches], and eventually everything will be even-stevens and everybody will be happy all the time. But that hasn\u2019t happened yet, so unless you now go back and boycott the original trilogy because it just starred white people, and you are just as upset by that if you are upset by something like this, then you need to ask – I think people who are upset by those reasons need to ask themselves other questions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Hector Navarro in Superhero News\u2019 reaction and review to the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story<\/i> teaser trailer, talking about the criticism the movie has gotten for its diversity. (Here<\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n

(Their entire discussion is great fun, but this particular part is at 10:45-13:30. Watching it includes more of the other two commenting.)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For years Star Wars has had a bunch of female fans. It has a huge female fanbase, as it does a male fanbase, obviously. And there is no reason that this world would not, and should not be populated by more women and by more people of color. And this movie is showing us that … <\/p>\n

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