orangerful: (star wars vii girl // orangerful)
orangerful ([personal profile] orangerful) wrote2015-12-29 10:08 am

I'm not crying, you're crying!

Just wanted to link these two blog posts about Rey because they made me both cry tears of rage and joy at the same time.

Rey is not a role model for little girls (spoilers ahead) EDIT: this article title is misleading, click through and read it, it's not what you think)

Rey from 'Force Awakens' is NOT a Mary Sue!

I have some other thoughts to post as well, mostly reflections on my reaction to Rey and Finn, both things that I wish I didn't have to react to. But I should probably not type those up while on the desk at work because it will require me to think a lot LOL.

On the lighter side of things, I typed up an incredibly long post about standing in line for 'Star Wars', how this was the last time I would probably do that just because the "art" of waiting in line has gone away.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/ 2015-12-29 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, it's a controversial title on purpose. Still, the text repeats it several times and definitely focuses on one aspect rather than the other. But apart from that, it makes a lot of good points.

[identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com 2015-12-29 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, he seemed very passionate while writing it so he might not have gone back to look over what he wrote. I also feel like since he was writing from a male POV and father POV, his focus was on those aspects of life. :) I can't fault him for that.