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[MiszMasz]

I can picture the entire scene and context for this but i'm still made uncomfortable by that gif.

 

[Blizzard]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Gwendoline Christie yet -- isn't she supposed to play

Spoiler

an Imperial? If so I'm sad if she doesn't end up using a lightsaber for Jedi / Sith powers. She had some cool longsword sequences in Game of Thrones.

 

[Karolinen]

Did you see how happy he was with Leia's kiss?




Where do you think this abomination came from:

Oh god damn it. Those eyes.....

 

[Sai-kun]

Yeah. We need to get to the point where people don't worry about how to write a gay character, because the sexuality is not what defines people as a whole. Gays can be good, bad, friendly, mean, strong, weak - like every other human being, because they're just that.

Still laughing about the reaction to the homosexual Dumbledore thing were people were mad and claimed that there were never any indication. Why would there? Just because he liked men he didn't need to wear pink scarf or tight leather pants. He isn't defined by his sexuality.

Because saying "this character is gay!" after the books are done with literally zero indicator that the character is queer DOESNT COUNT as representation.

It doesn't count.

And honestly, fuck off with the bolded. That's so rude and that's hardly the only way to show homosexuality.

Also to whoever said that characters that don't explicitly state their sexuality could be gay: that doesn't count either and I refuse to settle for that kind of representation. It's bullshit and you know it.

 

[Currygan]

C-3PO was in the first movie

not all British robots are gay, wtf

 

[davepoobond]

Do the humans in Star Wars have penises and Vaginas or are they like some weird alien organs?

 

[jooey]

Do the humans in Star Wars have penises and Vaginas or are they like some weird alien organs?

midichlorian nanodicks

 

[FelixOrion]

Great work star wars, you introduce your first lesbian and juuuuuuust miss giving her the name "muff"

It's rank/position title. Already existed.

 

[nampad]

Lesbian with that name? lol.

 

[Exr]

Not the first gay in Star Wars. Juhani and Yodas dad were also lesbians.

 

[Xe4]

Not the first gay in Star Wars. Juhani and Yodas dad were also lesbians.

You're gonna have to explain that one to me. I don't read EU.

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

Mor, Muff?

 

[Chariot]

I'm more bothered by that sort of announcement being more of a "tell and don't show".

Why couldn't Dumbledore have shown actual moments of his sexual orientation in a relationship like the rest of the characters in the series if it's not really that big of a deal?

Just seemed like a missed opportunity for such a massively popular character.

While she certainly could've dropped some more hints, I think he was just too old, plus mostly around pupils. We didn't get any relationship drop from any of the other teachers and I think, it's ok.

But it would certainly be funny if Harry or anyone asked somebody if Dumbledore ever got a wife and just earn heartfelt chuckles at answer."No, not a wife."

Because saying "this character is gay!" after the books are done with literally zero indicator that the character is queer DOESNT COUNT as representation.

It doesn't count.

And honestly, fuck off with the bolded. That's so rude and that's hardly the only way to show homosexuality.

Also to whoever said that characters that don't explicitly state their sexuality could be gay: that doesn't count either and I refuse to settle for that kind of representation. It's bullshit and you know it.

You should know that I deliberately choose such blatant symbols of gay people to make a point. And please, hold back a bit, I feel uncomfortable to reply to you with that tone.

 

[ab.aeterno]

It's nice to see a formal acknowledgement that gay people actually do exist in the new canon of Star Wars. But damn if announcements like this don't always bring out the same old "they have to justify it/why are they shoving this agenda down our troats for attention/how do you kno all other unspecified characters aren't gay" bullshit.

And please, hold back a bit, I feel uncomfortable to reply to you with that tone.

I have alerted the nearest branch of the Tone PD. This scoundrel won't get away with using anything but the most acceptable of tones.

 

[JC Lately]

Cant wait ‘till all the neckbeards crawl out their basements to decry this as ‘shoving diversity down their throats’ or whatever, right before alt-tabbing over to their tumblr feed full of Leia/Padme or female Twi'lek-on-female-Twi'lek porn with nary a shred of irony on their minds.

 

[antonz]

I like how they reference the lack of stuff but then say well in the expanded universe they had such and such but fans don't care about the expanded universe.

Yet the article is all about a book in the new expanded universe so why would it matter if "fans don't care"

 

[ship it]

Cant wait ‘till all the neckbeards crawl out their basements to decry this as ‘shoving diversity down their throats’ or whatever, right before alt-tabbing over to their tumblr feed full of Leia/Padme or female Twi'lek-on-female-Twi'lek porn with nary a shred of irony on their minds.

good, let the hate flow through you

 

[acrid]

 

[Beelzebufo]

But what's Moff Mors's first name? Scheeeeve?

 

[Savitar]

It's time.

Give back C3P0's penis.

It's a bold new world.

 

[acrid]

It's time.


Give back C3P0's penis.

It's a bold new world.

 

[VARIA]

itshappening.jpg

 

[AxelFoley]

Someone probably beat me to it, but I see hilarity ensuing naming a lesbian character Moff Mors. Yeah, I know "Moff" is a title, but it's close enough to"muff". LOL

 

[YoYo Switch]

wait, they went through all the trouble of making all the books, games, tv specials etc non canon to make that universe as clean as possible

but they're still gonna make more fucking books?

who's to say this won't become non canon 25 years from now

 

[UraMallas]

Gays are teh evil!

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE THE STRAIGHT GUYS ARE EVIL.

 

[AxelFoley]

Mor, Muff?

Exhibit A, LOL.

 

[Savitar]

Someone probably beat me to it, but I see hilarity ensuing naming a lesbian character Moff Mors. Yeah, I know "Moff" is a title, but it's close enough to"muff". LOL

It's so we can skip straight to the moff muffin jokes.

 

[jb1234]

A gay male on the good guy's side would have been a far riskier move. But baby steps, I guess.

 

[Raistlin]

Mors Muff

 

[Gambit 1138]

Turning the Empire into an equal opportunity employer is so fucking stupid. You think the Nazis or Soviet Russia (or hell modern Russia) would tolerate this? The Empire in the movies was always very traditional republican and this shit Disney is doing is ruining the villains.

 

[JC Lately]

Turning the Empire into an equal opportunity employer is so fucking stupid. You think the Nazis or Soviet Russia (or hell modern Russia) would tolerate this? The Empire in the movies was always very traditional republican and this shit Disney is doing is ruining the villains.

The whole ‘Palpatine is a sexist and human supremacist’ was a hand wave thought up by EU authors to explain why all the imperial officers in the original trilogy were human and male (also white). If you think about it, a Sith-run empire would respect power and ability over species or gender (or sexual orientation). The positions of power in the Empire ought to have been open to all with skill to hack it and the will/power to take it.