MalàStrana said:
Collipso said:
out of 100 characters in the OT literally 3 are women. I don’t think that’s something defendable.
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I don’t get it. “not defendable”… are you… talking about some kind of… positive discrimination ? Can’t agree with that. If there aren’t more women in the OT, it’s just because more were not needed (when you see Phasma in the ST, she could be a man it wouldn’t make any difference). If Luke, Han or Lando had been women, you just don’t get the same movies at all. All characters are perfect the way they are in the OT, gender included. And before you start going on the “it’s because men made these movies”, remember who had a strong influence over Lucas when he was making ANH (I give you a clue: his wife) and who wrote the first drafts of TESB (i.e. one of the best western screenwriters… movies with very few women by the way !).
(and I would also add that there aren’t that many characters in the OT…)
I don’t blame Lucas, after all he’s just a white guy who was making his movies and might’ve pictured them in a way or another, and he pictured most of them based off of his reality and the world he lived in. In the case of Star Wars, apparently white people in space, white cowboy in desert, and such. But that was his reality, Lucas was a white guy who lived with white people. Look at American Graffiti too, for example. He simply made a movie about white guys with cars, because he was a rich white guy with a car in the 60’s once, that was his reality. Anyway.
The point I was trying to get across is that there is evidence that Star Wars was a white male-dominant franchise, even in the PT, a more contemporary work, and it really is, and because of that I don’t blame Disney for trying to expand the horizons and targeting new audiences.
That’s not to say the franchise or Lucas is sexist. It’s just saying that you can’t attack people who say Star Wars was way too white male oriented, or women who’d complain about not having as much representation in Star Wars, or any other minorities saying that kind of thing.
And what people are saying is that the Empire is racist towards anything or anyone that’s not a white male, at least for its military, in the OT. And people are comparing them to the guy that created the fan edit. He might not be sexist himself (I personally highly doubt that he isn’t though) and might not explicitly say that he doesn’t like the everyone-oriented version of Star Wars, but the title of the movie alone is considered enough to some people (myself included) to call it a sexist thing, and that’s why comparisons were drawn to imperial officers.
I don’t know why they’d compare the editor to Hux though, since the FO seems more alien-racist than sexist or racist against other humans.