Feb
5
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Did the fact that her tits were on the side of her head instead of pushed up and out of her shirt affect my reaction to Leia? Did it affect my sense of myself? Both seem possible. Likely even. It might have gained a massive number of adult viewers, as Duke points out, but Star Wars was in fact a kids’ movie. Sexing up the princess would be taking her from girls like me and giving her to the boys and men who got every other character in the movie in any case. Who got every active character in every movie, it seemed to me then, every role in the war- and cops-and-robbers games we played as kids.
There is essentially one female character in Star Wars, and she has to carry the weight of signifying sex? Because that’s what girls are good for?
” this piece by zoe zolbrod at the nervous breakdown winds up talking about m**** c******** and for that reason i do not feel right endorsing it wholesale, but i can’t not shout-out some leia-love (and bonus amidala-hate later on). especially because, man, this point, seriously.
