It’s Star Wars Day
May 4, 2009 on 6:08 pm | In Space Oddities, Superheroes |May the Fourth Be With You…
Star Wars was released when I was a kid and it captivated my entire generation. For years afterward most of our play-acting revolved around the series’ theme and characters.
Of course, every girl wanted to be Princess Leah.
Sometimes competition for the role got a little out of hand. In that case, it was acceptable for a girl to take on the role of a robot or android instead. In what may have been a bit of foreshadowing, I played the part of the obnoxious know-it-all linguist C-3PO more often than not.
Some thirty-two years later, my little nieces have many different heroic characters to emulate in their games. But the character of Princess Leah was the first empowered woman I encountered in mass media.
By the way, if the Force is a space-age religion, wouldn’t she be a jihadist?
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