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ofalderaan:
This has been a long time coming, but for months I’ve been unsure how to say what I want to say, without offending anyone. But I need to say it, because quite frankly, this is a huge factor in why I have had so little muse for Breha, and why I haven’t been on here. But here it is:
I hate the way that Breha’s miscarriages, infertility, and depression were erased and replaced by a physical trauma in Leia, Princess of Alderaan. And more than that, I hate the way that much of the fandom response has been praising LPOA for “making Breha a badass now” whereas she was “weak and sickly” before. That is a hugely, hugely damaging standard to put onto women — that the inability to carry a child makes them weak and sickly, that suffering from depression makes you weak and sickly, but that if you survive a physically traumatic accident then that makes you a badass.
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ofalderaan:
This has been a long time coming, but for months I’ve been unsure how to say what I want to say, without offending anyone. But I need to say it, because quite frankly, this is a huge factor in why I have had so little muse for Breha, and why I haven’t been on here. But here it is:
I hate the way that Breha’s miscarriages, infertility, and depression were erased and replaced by a physical trauma in Leia, Princess of Alderaan. And more than that, I hate the way that much of the fandom response has been praising LPOA for “making Breha a badass now” whereas she was “weak and sickly” before. That is a hugely, hugely damaging standard to put onto women — that the inability to carry a child makes them weak and sickly, that suffering from depression makes you weak and sickly, but that if you survive a physically traumatic accident then that makes you a badass.
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