| TruckOSaurus said: The term is thrown around way too much I agree. The case in the OP reminds me of people accusing The Force Awakens of being a SJW movie because of the female and black lead characters. This kind of thinking is so backward it makes my head hurt to try to understand how someone can actually feel this way. |
Well Star Wars did indeed pick a female lead for its movies for a reason not story related at all. It also wasn't for SJW reasons, but purely for money reasons.
They know they are guaranteed to get their geek/nerd/sci-fi/ect fans to come to the movie regardless. They will go and watch it due to the Star Wars name. They want NEW viewers ans thus chose a female lead to try and get girls into star wars. Heck they even state that out loud in an interview.
