{"id":170722,"date":"2015-01-27T08:35:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T08:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/27\/strange-magic-stranger-gender-roles\/"},"modified":"2015-01-27T08:35:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T08:35:36","slug":"strange-magic-stranger-gender-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/27\/strange-magic-stranger-gender-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Magic, Stranger Gender Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strange Magic, Stranger Gender Roles<\/a><\/p>\n

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whovianfeminism<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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maggido<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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whovianfeminism<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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George Lucas has a new film coming out called \u201cStrange Magic.\u201d The animation looks stellar, but the dialogue and plot\u2026well\u2026not as much. Essentially, it\u2019s a wacky lovers tale. Fairy princess falls in love with the bog king. They start off as bitter enemies until a series of events leads them\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To be fair, Lucas only said it was *designed* for boys, not that it was made solely for them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Personally, I don\u2019t see the difference.<\/p>\n

Saying that a movie was \u201cdesigned\u201d for boys is inherently exclusionary. That sort of statement implies that certain interests and genres are exclusive to a particular gender. A guy says \u201cscience fiction is designed for boys\u201d and girls hear \u201cThis is not for you. You are not welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, some girls still watch the things that weren\u2019t \u201cdesigned\u201d for them. But if they\u2019re going to like that thing, then they\u2019re going to have to like it in a\u00a0particular<\/em> way. By which I mean that they\u2019re going to have to like it the way boys like it. They\u2019re going to have to like the same things about\u00a0Star Wars<\/em> and dislike the same things. They should wear the sexy, cute merchandise, but only while accompanied by their male partner so that he can vouch for her fan credentials and show that her sexuality is an acceptable display for a committed male partner and not an independent flaunting of her own sexuality. And she must never make any gender specific, feminist critique of\u00a0Star Wars<\/em>.\u00a0Violate any of these rules and she risks being branded as the Fake Geek Girl.<\/p>\n

And the way many girls try to reconcile their love for something with the overwhelming societal narrative that says \u201cThis is not for girls\u201d is to attack their own gender.\u00a0That\u2019s why you have girls saying things like \u201cI\u2019m not like other girls.\u201d Girls are taught to tear down other girls in order to create a space where it\u2019s acceptable to like the things that they like.<\/p>\n

So yeah, George Lucas didn\u2019t say word for word that Star Wars is only for boys. But he might as well have. And he sure as hell contributed to the toxic environment that surrounds women in science fiction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strange Magic, Stranger Gender Roles whovianfeminism: maggido: whovianfeminism: George Lucas has a new film coming out called \u201cStrange Magic.\u201d The animation looks stellar, but the dialogue and plot\u2026well\u2026not as much. Essentially, it\u2019s a wacky lovers tale. Fairy princess falls in love with the bog king. They start off as bitter enemies until a series of … <\/p>\n

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