the-pi-guy said:
It was a Nike slogan, that Kathleen Kennedy happened to be given a shirt for, at a convention. And had nothing to do with Star Wars. https://bentcorner.com/the-force-is-female/
It's not even talking about the Star Wars Force, it's just suggesting that women are able to do things too - women have power. I could understand if there was some kind of broader initiative, where Kathleen Kennedy made like an hour long presentation saying "screw men" or something. If that were the case, then I'd happily tell her to go screw herself right along with them. But it is ridiculous how often these complaints are just the most arbitrary and often the most inoffensive things I've ever seen, that get blown up as if they're sweeping ideological frameworks. |
https://www.reddit.com/r/saltierthancrait/comments/cms63y/revisiting_the_force_is_female/
Fact Check:
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The only truth from the rumor is that the Nike campaign came before the Archer Film Festival 2017.
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Kathleen Kennedy and the students did not wear the shirts for the Nike campaign. (this was not just a randomly handed Tshirt + photo shot)
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Kennedy and her husband Frank Marshall are the main trustees at the Archer School for Girls which organized the festival where the shirts have been used. Due to this strong connection and the obvious Star Wars related interpretation of the phrase, with Star Wars being the brand Kennedy manages, it is very unlikely that the shirts have been used without Kennedy's prior knowledge.
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At the festival, Kathleen Kennedy used the phrase "The Force is female" in the context of Star Wars.
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The very similar "The future is female" phrase has been tweeted by the head of the school before Nike announced its campaign.
As noted above, in 2017 for Archer Film Festival, she is quoted for saying "Do or do not. There is no try. The force is female."
She was a key speaker there. This is not a nike thingy... its starwars related, they used the Shirts as marketing and messaging,
and just were happy Slogan fitted in, with theirs.
"I could understand if there was some kind of broader initiative, where Kathleen Kennedy made like an hour long presentation saying "screw men" or something. If that were the case, then I'd happily tell her to go screw herself right along with them."
Are you sure she hasn't be real? lol. Pretty sure there is anti-male or male hate from them.
You jumped to the defense, when you didn't need to protect her.
She was not just handed a random Tshirt she didn't know about and her and friends got caught in a photo shoot.... that's not what happend.
