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Jay
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Is Star Wars catering to girls now?
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12-Jul-2018, 5:51 PM

ZkinandBonez said:

dahmage said:

LexX said:

When I saw TLJ the second time it was all too clear when half of the resistance seemed to be women to the point it just didn’t feel believable, just transparent. The contrast is so stark compared to the OT it’s ridicilous. If you’re really at war and showed people inside battleships there wouldn’t be 50% women. It’s not wrong, it’s not right, that’s just the way it is.

you are comparing this movie to your own past here on earth, and it is a fact that in the past there was a concept of ‘a woman’s place’.

I for one like the fact that Star Wars isn’t reflecting that past anymore.

I don’t think LexX was trying to refer outdated gender roles. The strange thing is that even in the modern world, even in the most progressive countries, there are rarely, if ever, any occupation or field of interest that is 50% men and 50% women. Even in liberal countries like Norway, where both men and women are “drafted”, more men choose the military as a career afterwards than women. Similarly there are certain occupations that are over-represented by women, just like some jobs have an abundance of men. I think that’s what he meant by; “It’s not wrong, it’s not right, that’s just the way it is.”

Of course I agree that this still doesn’t have to apply to a fictional universe. Also a Galactic Civil War (or two of them) I’d imagine would make people do more things out of necessity than preference.

Exactly. Gender differences in countries at the top of the equal rights list are more stark rather than less. When people are free to make their own choice of profession based on personal interests with minimal conditioning by societal pressures, gender differences caused by biology are amplified. It’s not all some sinister plot by the patriarchy.

Men and women are different and make different choices when given the opportunity. The idea that a 100% voluntary military force would be half female is definitely the realm of a fantasy film.

However, the First Order would be more likely to have equal representation in their military because I’d assume service is compulsory. If half the FO troopers were female, it wouldn’t strike me as odd at all.