The Fifth Column of Feminist Ideas has got to be my all-time favorite Oprah Book Club entry.
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The current subtitle of this forum is "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, we had a Star Wars forum. It's BACCCCKKKKK!"
I am very tempted to re-name it "The Fifth Column of Feminist Ideas."
Treadwell, the greatest droid in Star Wars, represents the CIS authoritarian paternalistic corporate droidopoly always trying to keep down women and astromechs. See initial good strong manly buff reliable treadwells roamed the deserts and flat hallways of the galaxy, repairing things, ignoring the existential maw in the gut of their lives, working till they died of a broken motivator and wound up scrapped by litte Franciscan salvagers and then the astromechs came with their shapely bulbous areas, their hidden maniplator arms, thrusters, oh God thrusters, and that hither-too boop beep beep boop sound.. they knew what they were doing. Before long they were doing their own order 66 on all the treadwells, blowing them up on Tattoine, choosing emaculated goldenboys to be their slave mates instead of the black-coffee lubricated treadwells of the good old days till in the end the best they could do was maybe hang out on Hoth with Han and Chewie, working on classic freighters and posting their views on reddit and weeping over R5D4, she will return one day.
In the meantime, am I the only one curious what those
I am half tempted to google that fifth column stuff but I have week off, it's 8.42 in the morning, I just got out of bed and still need coffee. I'm not going down that rabbithole just yet.
I am half tempted to google that fifth column stuff but I have week off, it's 8.42 in the morning, I just got out of bed and still need coffee. I'm not going down that rabbithole just yet.
Also what's this bullshit about Han and his womanizing ways? He literally only talks to one woman in the trilogy
He's hardly James T Kirk (and to be fair even James T Kirk isn't really James T Kirk, Chandler and Ross got more action in Friends than Jimmy boy did in TOS and nether of them ever gets tagged as womanizers the way Joey does). Even if you factor Solo and the sequel trilogy into the equation Han appears to have had two, count them TWO, relationships with women, neither of which was short term or frivolous.
Thanks I never knew that. If that had been included it would have made a bit of difference, but still wouldn't make Han James Bond, IMO obviously.
That and the older EU novels (and I think the comics, both old and new) had Han having multiple girlfriends between the time he got the Falcon and his encountering Luke Skywalker for the first time. Some of them even come back, with grudges after Han and Leia are married or otherwise a probably item. (I don't real if he had a different girl in each book of the original 1980s trilogy, but he had one in the newer trilogy from the main line Legends EU, plus a previous wife (likely a scam) in the different versions of the comics.)
But then in the old comics and Legends EU, Luke and a bunch of girlfriends as well.
But then in the old comics and Legends EU, Luke and a bunch of girlfriends as well.
To be fair, there is only one woman with more than a handful of lines in the original trilogy.Also what's this bullshit about Han and his womanizing ways? He literally only talks to one woman in the trilogy
So important that she got an action figure.Don't forget the ion cannon woman!
Did she, for real?
Good for you. I avoid it. I plan to keep doing so.
I may have enough time to post endlessly on this board but my time's not unlimited.
I mean, at this point, try finding anyone visible onscreen in the OT who doesn't have an action figure.
Fozec in Jabba's Palace is one of a relative few.
There are a few.
Especially cantina patrons which are highly sought after by collectors to fill out displays, like the twin sisters.
I just know at this point so many background characters in the OT have action figures Robot Chicken even did a joke about it.
Do all the officers around the conference table in EpIV have action figures?
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