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chakkra on 29 August 2025
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the-pi-guy said:
chakkra said:

Okay, here's the thing, stories targeted to the female demographic (books, TV series, movies, etc) have always been told from a female perspective. Why? because most women relate more to a character from their perspective. There's nothing wrong with that, that is basic nature, everybody understands that. That's why you have never seen men complaining, calling women sexist for watching stories from their perspective, and demanding to have more "representation" in female-targeted stories.

But somehow we got to a point in time where a group of people in charge looked at the things that men were watching and said "Wait a minute! why do men prefer stories told from their perspective? That's wrong!".

The problem is not preference. There's nothing wrong with preferring stories told from male perspectives, as a male.  

Acting like it is offensive, when more stories are told from female perspectives is when it starts to be a problem.

When you act like Star Wars is "supposed" to be targeted towards men, that's a problem. 

You can complain that Star Wars doesn't make enough content that is geared towards you, but that isn't the same thing as "Star Wars is *supposed* to be targeted at men. 

There is a difference between having a preference and insisting that something has to be a certain way and getting morally outraged because the universe won't pander to you specifically.  

chakkra said:

1) Star Wars has ALWAYS had female characters. Leia was an important part of the first trilogy, Padme was an important part of the second trilogy. Ahsoka was an important part of the Clone Wars series. And there were many secondary female characters sprinkled in there: Mon Mothma, Shakti, Assaj Ventress, The Night Sisters, etc.

2) But now, they released a mini series with 9 episodes and there was ONE male Jedi in all 9 epidodes, ONE male Jedi in 9 episodes... then they released Tales of The Empire.. 2 arcs, 2 stories told from the female perspective.. then they released The Acolyte.. I don't even want to talk about that one.

And all of that came after the THREE MAIN movies were told from a female perspective.


So NO, they have not simply been "including more people". Star Wars and Marvel already had the right amount of female characters for stories that were supposed to be targetted to men.

I mean, it is their property, so of course they can target it to whoever they want, I will give you that one. BUT if they really want men's money back, then they HAVE TO make content targeted to men, there is no way around that; which again, it is the whole point of this article, them "seeking to win back young men".

And I say that Star Wars is "supposed" to be for men, the same way I say that Frozen is "supposed" to be for women. If they make the next Frozen about a womanizer dude fighting orcs, and featuring a bunch of hot women in bikinis dancing in a brothel, I bet most of its original fans would say "what the heck is this?". And I would support those upset women 100%, even if it is in Disney's right to do whatever the hell they want with their IPs.