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soyeahso:
thesovereignempress:
reylocalligraphy:
bethagain:
Can we talk for a sec about Rose Tico?
I just read yet another thread about how she’s the worst character ever, she single-handedly ruined Star Wars, they should have killed her off early, etc. etc. etc.
Which, I agree with absolutely none of that.
But the thing that I want to talk about it this: The folks who say she’s nothing but a fan-insert, and it would have been way better if the story followed her (hotter and more interesting) sister.
As a not-conventionally-attractive woman with an unglamorous job, I am 100% here for Rose being in the movie to represent me. I am not the hotter-looking sister. No one will ever mistake me for Princess Leia or Padme Amidala or Hera Syndulla (I mean y’know if I had those tentacles on my head). I am not a terror with a lightsaber nor an expert marksman with a blaster. My work is often like Rose’s: I’m down here in the basement of the ship, keeping the systems running, and no one will ever know unless something goes wrong.
So, what, according to these folks, I’m not allowed to play? I better go get my hair done and maybe some plastic surgery, and go get a more visibly exciting job, and fit their idea of what a hero looks like, or I else I better go home and let the cooler kids have the field?
Nuh-uh.
Y’all can go home, instead. Me and Rose, we got work to do trying to save the galaxy.
Preach 👏
I’m glad someone brought this up finally.
I think there’s an implicit racialization to it too. Our views on what Asian women look like are shaped by pornography, Asian idols and Orientalism. So the limit of what a constitutes an “attractive” Asian woman is even narrower than it is for White women.
It was refreshing to see a movie cast an Asian woman who was not perfectly slender, pale as the moon and hyperfeminized.
The craziest part of this to me, also, is that compared to the average person walking down the street, Kelly Marie Tran is wildly beautiful! Like, in movie star terms I guess she’s unconventional in the same way Tina Fey characters are.
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soyeahso:
thesovereignempress:
reylocalligraphy:
bethagain:
Can we talk for a sec about Rose Tico?
I just read yet another thread about how she’s the worst character ever, she single-handedly ruined Star Wars, they should have killed her off early, etc. etc. etc.
Which, I agree with absolutely none of that.
But the thing that I want to talk about it this: The folks who say she’s nothing but a fan-insert, and it would have been way better if the story followed her (hotter and more interesting) sister.
As a not-conventionally-attractive woman with an unglamorous job, I am 100% here for Rose being in the movie to represent me. I am not the hotter-looking sister. No one will ever mistake me for Princess Leia or Padme Amidala or Hera Syndulla (I mean y’know if I had those tentacles on my head). I am not a terror with a lightsaber nor an expert marksman with a blaster. My work is often like Rose’s: I’m down here in the basement of the ship, keeping the systems running, and no one will ever know unless something goes wrong.
So, what, according to these folks, I’m not allowed to play? I better go get my hair done and maybe some plastic surgery, and go get a more visibly exciting job, and fit their idea of what a hero looks like, or I else I better go home and let the cooler kids have the field?
Nuh-uh.
Y’all can go home, instead. Me and Rose, we got work to do trying to save the galaxy.
Preach 👏
I’m glad someone brought this up finally.
I think there’s an implicit racialization to it too. Our views on what Asian women look like are shaped by pornography, Asian idols and Orientalism. So the limit of what a constitutes an “attractive” Asian woman is even narrower than it is for White women.
It was refreshing to see a movie cast an Asian woman who was not perfectly slender, pale as the moon and hyperfeminized.
The craziest part of this to me, also, is that compared to the average person walking down the street, Kelly Marie Tran is wildly beautiful! Like, in movie star terms I guess she’s unconventional in the same way Tina Fey characters are.
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