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lazaefair:
bomberqueen17:
Question:
why does everyone have Poe call Leia “sir”?
My sister is a Lt. Col. in the Army and she is addressed as “Ma’am” and gets annoyed if I joke around and call her “sir”. (We had a whole running gag with it when we were younger. She’s the oldest of us.)
Is it from a show or something, or– I just don’t know where the kids get their ideas, but it is nearly ubiquitous in fanfic and I don’t understand it. Gender presentation matters, Leia is everywhere else presented as female, and it makes me uncomfortable to think that calling someone “Ma’am” can’t be a mark of respect.
Probably a progressive destroying-gender-roles thing. Also partly because the Star Wars military is not Earth military, and Star Wars society is not Earth society. You could certainly build the case that gender would be constructed differently in worlds where aliens are ubiquitous. Science fiction and fantasy afford people the chance to try out their favorite ideals in their writing, and I could see where removing gendered speech markers would be something they want to try.
The issue I have, though, is that “sir” is not a non-gendered speech marker.
Is it something that does appear in canon in the Star Wars universe? I have not been able to find an answer to this question.
lazaefair:
bomberqueen17:
Question:
why does everyone have Poe call Leia “sir”?
My sister is a Lt. Col. in the Army and she is addressed as “Ma’am” and gets annoyed if I joke around and call her “sir”. (We had a whole running gag with it when we were younger. She’s the oldest of us.)
Is it from a show or something, or– I just don’t know where the kids get their ideas, but it is nearly ubiquitous in fanfic and I don’t understand it. Gender presentation matters, Leia is everywhere else presented as female, and it makes me uncomfortable to think that calling someone “Ma’am” can’t be a mark of respect.
Probably a progressive destroying-gender-roles thing. Also partly because the Star Wars military is not Earth military, and Star Wars society is not Earth society. You could certainly build the case that gender would be constructed differently in worlds where aliens are ubiquitous. Science fiction and fantasy afford people the chance to try out their favorite ideals in their writing, and I could see where removing gendered speech markers would be something they want to try.
The issue I have, though, is that “sir” is not a non-gendered speech marker.
Is it something that does appear in canon in the Star Wars universe? I have not been able to find an answer to this question.
