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I heard that George Lucas also played a role in the decision to nominate her as the succeeding head of Lucasfilm. If true, that just makes him even MORE contemptible. It’s already bad enough that he pretty much sold Star Wars to buy his way out of taxes (and taxes he practically lobbied for BTW), but deliberately allowing a person who doesn’t even make it a secret that she hated Star Wars?! Seriously, allowing someone who at least has a healthy respect for Star Wars, if not a fanatic, would have been far healthier for the franchise right now than one who truly hated it.

But I wouldn’t be surprised if Iger also played a role in the travesty of hiring her. He’s always been the type to make his decisions purely on political grounds instead of whether it actually makes a profit. He’s even worse than Eisner ever was (as bad as Eisner was, at least HE tried to focus on whether the company was actually making a profit in its decisions instead of trying to turn it into a Liberal SJW factory regardless of what customers think, which is far more than what can be said of Iger or even Katzenberg.).

Not sure I agree with the idea that femininity requires taking away reason and accountability, though. I know plenty of females, who actually ARE feminine I should add, who definitely have a lot of sound reasoning and even accountability. Like, for example, Mallory Millet, or Phyllis Schlafly. Ironically, a lot of the ones who seem to take away reason and accountability seemed more masculine in demeanor than truly feminine, like Betty Friedan, or Gloria Steinem, or Kate Millet, or Simone de Beauvoir.

Your exceptions tend to prove the rule. Don’t forget Golda Meir. Maggie Thatcher.

The whole ‘accountability and reason’ meme came from the movie, ‘As Good As It Gets’ with Jack Nicholson playing a very successful and reclusive author.

A female fan buttonhooked him at an elevator and told him what a fan she was.

She said that she loved his female characters, and asked how it was he was able to capture them as he did.

His reply, “I think of a man, and then I take away accountability and reason.”

Something I never considered about this statement, which is hilarious in the movie, is the obverse of it - that accountability and reason are the things that withstand the other, baser aspects of a man’s nature.