I'm not crying, you're crying!

[orangerful]

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.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/]

I was intrigued by the title, but it's actually not what you think, it's about the fact that she's a role model for everybody. That said, I disagree with the title. Representation has 2 distinct roles: for minorities to see themselves and for majorities to see minorities and understand them better.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I think the title was meant to be kind of "click baity" in the hopes of luring those people who keep denouncing her into reading why she is important. (though I doubt they would get very far before realizing they had been tricked)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/]

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.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

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.