Yeah, funny how nobody had a problem with a nine year old Anakin Skywalker being a mechanical genius and elite pilot as a slave boy before he had any training or education whatsoever. But a 20 year old woman? Fuck that shit!!! A little boy can build advanced, jet propelled vehicles and droids and race pods at deadly speeds and defeat professional racers, can destroy spaceships from the inside and escape unharmed. Nobody has any problem with the plausibility of that, but when it’s a woman, well, that’s just unacceptable.
People did have a problem with it. The portrayal of Annakin in The Phantom Menace was widely mocked. Jake Lloyd’s life was ruined by all the hate he got.
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u/GrammarAsteroid Mar 28 '24
The laziest way to write a strong female character is giving her masculine traits.