Sure, the Star Wars junkies love it. They'll love anything that has the Star Wars name on it regardless of story, plot, acting, and now political correctness. For the record, I did disagree with the original Star Wars lack of female characters. It only had one female character, that being Princess Leia. But since Disney took over the Star Wars franchise, (three movies now and counting) it's all about female characters. Meaning any character that's strong, brave, commanding, self assured, and plays the role of a leader, it's going to be female.
What's wrong with that picture? It goes back to what I've been saying before. Star Wars is about, um, I think, um, maybe, um... a WAR. And fighting wars has never been the role of a woman. Maybe different kind of wars, but not shooting wars where you get killed or maimed. And just why would a woman want any part of that? So they could look good in a movie maybe? Jumping, and running, and wielding a light saber, looking flashy and dashing?
That is all show of course. But a war is not flashy. Nor is a war dashing. It's not even a glorious thing like the 19th Century might have you believe. War is a horrible thing. It's a messy thing. It's painful, disastrous, tragic, and has nothing to do with looking good.
War is all about destruction and killing. And in war you get killed. You get maimed. And I've made the point before that any woman who wants to be a part of that is not right in the head. Women should be thankful they are not required to fight in wars. But for some reason some women, (those women who are not right in the head, I guess,) want to be required to fight in wars.
So in Star Wars, we get women fighters, and of course, all the leaders are women. We get the general who's a woman. Then we get the next in command, the admiral, who's a woman. You get some little Vietnamese girl who has more gumption and know-how than the black guy. And of course, she has to save the guy's life because he's behaving foolishly on the battlefield, so yeah, that's what we're getting in the latest Star Wars movie.
Any male leaders in the show lead the bad guys. And that's the only male leaders we get. The evil ones. The disgusting ones. The ones audiences will root against. The girl leaders are the good guys, the ones we want to win. And of course they're the ones who do win.
So, if you want a feminist Star Wars, you got it. You've been getting it for the last three Star Wars now. And it's looking like every Star Wars movie from now on will be a feminist movie. The women will be the assertive ones. Women will be the brave ones. Women will be the strong protagonists and the heroes. Women will be the leaders, the generals, the admirals, and any other commanding role.
The Star Wars men from now on will be the weak ones, the rash ones, the foolish ones, and the secondary characters, playing second fiddle to the female characters. They'll be the bad guys, the evil ones, and the idiots.
Bottom line is this: if you want the female characters to be strong and dominant, while at the same time the male characters are weak, tentative, and submissive, you'll love the new Star Wars movies. It's as if the producers have laid the ground rules to be no more strong male characters in Star Wars movies. Only weak ones. And the women only strong.
To be clear, I do approve of strong women characters. I know damn well women are strong characters. Women are strong characters in all of the books I've written. (Five and counting.) And I plan on keeping the female characters in my stories strong and brave characters. But they don't fight in wars. They never have as a matter of course. (I know there's exceptions, which is why I said as a matter of course.) And I believe they never should have to. Don't you?
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