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Post #1005481

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Tobar
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Star Wars: Rogue One - * Non Spoiler Discussion Thread *
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Date created
2-Nov-2016, 10:27 AM

dahmage said:

Tobar said:

TV’s Frink said:

Tobar said:

TV’s Frink said:

The amount of references to male Mary Sues are about 0.005% of female Mary Sues. That’s precisely why it is sexist.

What a ridiculous argument. Is “Benedict Arnold” as a term sexist toward men?

What a ridiculous response. I didn’t say Mary Sue is a sexist term because it is a female name.

The number of male Mary Sues far exceeds female Mary Sues, yet female Mary Sues are labelled as such much more often, that is why it is sexist.

Yeah and I’m saying the majority of people being called a Benedict Arnold are probably men. Does that make it sexist?

Perhaps. but i don’t get why this idea that you can point out a separate issue (even if possibly related) and think that it negates the current issue. Just stop calling Rey a Mary Sue, and start saying “i don’t like woman leads”

How lazy is that. Someone says something you don’t like and so you just immediately jump to labeling them an “-ist” to try and shut them down.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but we’re in a Rogue One thread. A film I happen to be quite psyched about. I have no opinion on Jyn as I haven’t seen the film yet. Could she enter the hallowed halls of awesome female protagonists like Ellen Ripley or Sarah Connor? Quite possibly. Or she could fall into Rey territory. No one knows yet.

And that’s not a knock Daisy’s performance. She was failed by the writing. Which is painful to say about a Lawrence Kasdan script but then Abrams is credited as co-writer. It wouldn’t be a shock to me to learn that Abrams had written most of it with Kasdan brought in to punch it up and to use his name for fan cred.