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thusspakesophie:
red-applesith:
somaybelikeno:
mswyrr:
i really liked that women have a range of costuming in “the last jedi” and none of it is objectifying.
rey’s athletic, low maintenance yet stylish costuming “matures” without becoming hypersexualized. that is accomplished through adding more complexity/layering in terms of multiple colors/darker colors. and her hair style becomes more “adult” without becoming impractical for fighting.
rose dresses for her work and is too focused on the mission to mess around with fancy dress: actually, the fact that she goes to the fancy peoples’ party in her Resistance jumpsuit is a visual representation of how she rejects their phony, corrupt beauty. she sees through it and wants nothing to do with it.
and yet femininity is not associated only with phony beauty! the noble leaders leia and holdo are dressed very feminine… holdo has purple hair ffs! they’re both elegant in gorgeous colors and textures, dresses, jewelry, etc. but it’s not done in an objectifying way. they’re women dressing feminine for themselves not for the male gaze. and clearly they consider (and most people read) their dressing as an expression of authority rather than frivolity.
that part of it was SO IMPORTANT. it’s easy enough to simply only show strong female characters who are not dressed feminine. but it’s something special to show femininity that isn’t about the male gaze as well, to have that wide of a palette.
in terms of showing a wide range of women with a wide range of gender expression, it was much better than the get-up they had leia in in TFA, which seemed to imply that Leia would be disallowed from expressing her Star Wars-y feminine sense of style because she’s a general now… so everything has to be beige and blah
bull. shit.
leia would not stand for such a fool notion!
There were so many different women in TLJ, it makes me happy.
TLJ IS CHOCK-FULL OF AMAZING WOMEN WHO ARE NOT OBJECTIFIED, WHO ARE DIVERSE, YOUNG, OLD, WISE, CUNNING, EVIL!!
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND PEOPLE WHO ARE SO UP THEIR ARSE THEY DON’T THINK IT’S FEMINIST ENOUGH.
Asdfghjkl!!!
I particularly appreciated Holdo and Leia’s farewell. There were some beautiful hand shots in this movie, and theirs with two pairs of hands dripping with Space Jewelry (apparently Carrie Fisher insisted the movie needed more Space Jewelry! <3 ) was a highlight for me. It’s like a visual + costume extravaganza version of passing the Bechdel Test; a scene of conspicuously feminine emotional connection between two Resistance leaders and old friends.
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thusspakesophie:
red-applesith:
somaybelikeno:
mswyrr:
i really liked that women have a range of costuming in “the last jedi” and none of it is objectifying.
rey’s athletic, low maintenance yet stylish costuming “matures” without becoming hypersexualized. that is accomplished through adding more complexity/layering in terms of multiple colors/darker colors. and her hair style becomes more “adult” without becoming impractical for fighting.
rose dresses for her work and is too focused on the mission to mess around with fancy dress: actually, the fact that she goes to the fancy peoples’ party in her Resistance jumpsuit is a visual representation of how she rejects their phony, corrupt beauty. she sees through it and wants nothing to do with it.
and yet femininity is not associated only with phony beauty! the noble leaders leia and holdo are dressed very feminine… holdo has purple hair ffs! they’re both elegant in gorgeous colors and textures, dresses, jewelry, etc. but it’s not done in an objectifying way. they’re women dressing feminine for themselves not for the male gaze. and clearly they consider (and most people read) their dressing as an expression of authority rather than frivolity.
that part of it was SO IMPORTANT. it’s easy enough to simply only show strong female characters who are not dressed feminine. but it’s something special to show femininity that isn’t about the male gaze as well, to have that wide of a palette.
in terms of showing a wide range of women with a wide range of gender expression, it was much better than the get-up they had leia in in TFA, which seemed to imply that Leia would be disallowed from expressing her Star Wars-y feminine sense of style because she’s a general now… so everything has to be beige and blah
bull. shit.
leia would not stand for such a fool notion!
There were so many different women in TLJ, it makes me happy.
TLJ IS CHOCK-FULL OF AMAZING WOMEN WHO ARE NOT OBJECTIFIED, WHO ARE DIVERSE, YOUNG, OLD, WISE, CUNNING, EVIL!!
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND PEOPLE WHO ARE SO UP THEIR ARSE THEY DON’T THINK IT’S FEMINIST ENOUGH.
Asdfghjkl!!!
I particularly appreciated Holdo and Leia’s farewell. There were some beautiful hand shots in this movie, and theirs with two pairs of hands dripping with Space Jewelry (apparently Carrie Fisher insisted the movie needed more Space Jewelry! <3 ) was a highlight for me. It’s like a visual + costume extravaganza version of passing the Bechdel Test; a scene of conspicuously feminine emotional connection between two Resistance leaders and old friends.
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