Posted on 12/29/2018 8:47:17 AM PST by EdnaMode
Today is the last Friday of the year, and also the last day that Twitter is featuring #SWRepMatters, a Twitter campaign designed to talk about representation in all forms in the Star Wars universe. This runs the gamut from racial and ethnic representation to sexuality to disabled rep, with each month focusing on a new identity. As the year comes to a close, the founders of the event have used today to talk about the ways in which Star Wars did right by rep this year, and where they still need to grow.
Were a year out from Episode IX now, and none of the films have included a character who identifies as being part of the LGBT+ community. Fans have speculated about the character of Poe Dameron, played by Oscar Isaac, since he bit his lip and offered Finn (John Boyega) his jacket.
Screenwriter Jon Kasdan and star Donald Glover implied that Lando Calrissian might be pansexual, but the onscreen rep for that seems to be his romantic interest in his female-identified droid rather than any actual flirtation or romance with a male character. Rian Johnson said there was no room for sexuality in his film The Last Jedi, all while talking about how Rey and Kylos fingers touching is a sex scene.
Now, were four films into the new Star Wars, some might say. Give them time. But the problem is is that we shouldnt have to wait in 2018, almost 2019, for a major franchise thats been around for over 40 years to recognize that LGBT+ characters might exist. A line about Poes boyfriend wouldnt have dragged down The Last Jedi any more than an unnecessary shirtless Kylo Ren scene did.
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Leftards hate the good for being the good.Since they are so miserable inside they have to ruin everything for everybody else.
I thought Jar Jar Binks was the obligatory gay character....
Meant the character but interesting tib bit non the less.
then how'd they happen upon a NYC diner or those "fuzzy" dice?
No. GL owns Lucasfilm. Disney owns SW. Big diff.
Oh my..is that a lightsaber in your pocket, fella..or are you just glad to see me?
WHY??? While they’re at it can they PLEASE make any hero a short, chubby Italian lady with wide feet? For the love of God it is NOT all about THEM! Go the eff away. Shut your sound!
Has anyone ask Bert and Ernie what they think about a gay star war hero?
I’m guessing gay boy scout “leaders” are all for it...?
Lucasfilm does other movies for other studios besides SW for Disney.
What I am saying is Disney will make the decisions on SW not Kathleen Kennedy.
I apologize. SW geek that I am I didn’t realize that Disney bought Lucasfilm. I thought Disney just bought SW. I have been schooled today.
“They seem to be the champions of homos by a giant majority.”
Women have been put in competition with men starting in early education. They are being taught that men are inferior in intelligence and weak due to sexual considerations in their efforts to expand their surroundings.
What used to be the action of men calling a woman a dyke, has become acceptable because they can call a man a fag. See the equality here? That’s all it is whether it’s a step forward or backwards. And men are, after a few hundred years of pattern and teaching, finding it hard to accept the more aggressive woman as too many women want their equality, but still want the door opened up for them. Therefore both men and women are confused as to who is who and how.
Seems a terrible shame to muddle into something that has worked for a couple of million years with such a dramatic change that is no longer controllable and is changing all the time. Our past might need a little tweaking, but it has gone to fast, to far for us to understand.
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Dunno, is it possible to lubricate the working end of a light saber?
Imagine homosexuality CURED in the GFFA?
Imagine a test where besides the sex of a fetus can be determine, they can determine if it would be homosexual.
I would bet the left would be opposed to those abortions.
There are many shallow and medium and even deep correct arguments about the evils progressive ideology visits upon mankind, and those visitations cause suffering for billions of individuals, over infinite moments, but the greatest evil and the one that characterizes all the other leafs of the trunk is the illusion that the soul is other than God.
It's not necessary that there be an intervening judgment between the mistake and the punishment, it's as simple as any universal law. If you step into a pool of lava, the stepping in is itself the burning. Laws of men have an intervening mediary. With God's law and laws of the universe ... the action is the consequence. It's not just equal to the consequence, it is the consequence ... identity vs equivalency.
Sure was.
Article: That would send a message to young, queer fans around the world that they are not only okay, but can be a hero like their favorite character as well.
Its supposed to be a war movie. The only reason heteros are even in the plot is because of reproduction, which gays are excluded from. And Jedis are (supposed to be) celibate. To the extent its not a war movie, it fails. And one could argue, it has failed.
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