tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post1999630106201352947..comments2024-03-28T17:53:43.541-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: Is Plausibility a Straight White Male?Darwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-24757609700291085222016-12-29T21:55:57.503-05:002016-12-29T21:55:57.503-05:00Exactly.Exactly.Darwinhttp://darwincatholic.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-13970371079386941282016-12-29T18:06:22.444-05:002016-12-29T18:06:22.444-05:00As for Rogue One, there weren't more than one ...As for Rogue One, there weren't more than one leading female characters in the earlier eposodes either (Leia, Padme, Rey) so I'm not sure what the problem is. Moreover, there is Mon Mothma who is a primary leader of the Rebel Alliance besides the admiral (I don't remember his species)<br />As for women fighting, the examples are from truly desperate situations where there was nothing more to lose for those women and their side of the battle (revolutionary and guerilla armies, but I could also mention the historical examples of my own Hungarian heritage: women helped defending small fortresses against overwhelming enemy force, and their existence so far from being denied, was lauded, example: the famous Hungarian painting "The Women of Eger", by Bertalan Szekely, done in 1867.<br />http://mek.oszk.hu/01400/01474/html/vazlat4.jpg<br /><br />As C. S. Lewis writes in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, "Battles are ugly when women fight". Agnesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-47411305484080886422016-12-21T23:05:02.533-05:002016-12-21T23:05:02.533-05:00Meanwhile, somewhere on Twitter, someone has wonde...Meanwhile, somewhere on Twitter, someone has wondered how Hollywood can go anywhere in the universe, to any time in history or the future, or to any culture you could name (even those whose existence we barely managed to learn about) . . . and fight a white male in it to tell a plausible story about! Cristinahttp://linguavert.comnoreply@blogger.com