• Blogging,  Diversity & Media Criticism,  Star Wars

    In Defense of Satine & Others of Her Kind

    It’s not uncommon among the Star Wars fandom on tumblr to find some pretty awesome gifsets made by some pretty talented people. It is also unfortunately not uncommon to find a tag on any of these gifsets saying something along the lines of:

    “I didn’t like this character at first because they were so annoying/just a love interest/fought with [male character]/so on and so forth.”

    If you’re nodding along to that and thinking that yeah, maybe that’s a reasonable line of thinking, I want you to stop and reconsider. You’re thinking of a female character, right? Any male characters that you hate spring to mind for any of those reasons?