Not gonna lie, I genuinely still don’t get it! The ST are extremely, and almost outright intentionally, apolitical movies with genuinely nothing to offer on that front. And I like TLJ! Andor, Acolyte, sure. But The Last Jedi?
I’d argue TLJ is more sexist, with how I think it shoves Rey into a passive role as a protagonist and builds her story around the dumb, to me, bad boy good girl romance with Kylo. That, plus, all the female characters are basically props for the male characters stories. Luke may suck, to me, but I still think Rey is written not really as her own character, but for Luke’s as well as Kylo’s.
And yet, the movie is bashed as woke and acclaimed as progressive. Hilarious to me.