Ominouri's Rant on Leia from Star Wars
... or, more specifically, on Slave Leia and her treatment as a fetish symbol for the 30 years. Sure, it's a rant so it's not a high quality critic, but the poster has a point.
From Topless Robot, The theme of the contest was to pick a fictional character you'd like to off, so here's Ominouri's reason for offing Jabba the Hut.
I'd kill Jabba the Hut. Why? Because no Jabba means no Slave Leia. That's right. NO SLAVE LEIA. I'm sick of this fetish crap, it's gone on for far too long. The first time I saw Leia I thought wow, a smart, take-charge action film heroine on par with her male counterparts. She was as much a part of her rescue as her rescuers, she was the first person to match wits with Han, she stood up to Vader, and was in intrigral part of rebel high command. Even in the slave scenes I saw her a someone made to be a sexualized object, only to turn the tables on her objectifier and take him out when no one in the galaxy apparently was able or ballsy enough to. But apparently this impression was lost on the broader fanbase which reacted in a collective, "WHOA BEWBS!" And so that became her legacy. Luke restored the Jedi order, redeemed Vader, and was an intrigral part of balancing the force; Vader was the ultimate evil badass ideal who later sacrificed himself for peace; Han was a slick, badass, man's man. And Leia? She's Luke's sister, Vader's daughter, Han's plus one, and OMG GOLD BINIKI!!!! If there's anything prime-time commercial have taught me, it's that erections lasting more than 4 hours should be checked out by a doctor, this one has gone on for almost thirty years. Let it go. Or better yet crank one out to "Leia" as she appears in 2010, and see if any of you will ever be able to find your penises after that. So if killing the space slug is all it takes to restore a sci-fi feminist icon to her rightful place and away from the sweaty palms of hyper-ventillating nerds, then so be it. Hell, I'll climb on top of the bastard myself and salt him to death with my rage-filled tears. (emphasis mine)
The cool part is that Ominouri won the contest. I love her point of view though. It makes me want to go "Hell Yeah!" and rally up beside her.
~Lockea
From Topless Robot, The theme of the contest was to pick a fictional character you'd like to off, so here's Ominouri's reason for offing Jabba the Hut.
I'd kill Jabba the Hut. Why? Because no Jabba means no Slave Leia. That's right. NO SLAVE LEIA. I'm sick of this fetish crap, it's gone on for far too long. The first time I saw Leia I thought wow, a smart, take-charge action film heroine on par with her male counterparts. She was as much a part of her rescue as her rescuers, she was the first person to match wits with Han, she stood up to Vader, and was in intrigral part of rebel high command. Even in the slave scenes I saw her a someone made to be a sexualized object, only to turn the tables on her objectifier and take him out when no one in the galaxy apparently was able or ballsy enough to. But apparently this impression was lost on the broader fanbase which reacted in a collective, "WHOA BEWBS!" And so that became her legacy. Luke restored the Jedi order, redeemed Vader, and was an intrigral part of balancing the force; Vader was the ultimate evil badass ideal who later sacrificed himself for peace; Han was a slick, badass, man's man. And Leia? She's Luke's sister, Vader's daughter, Han's plus one, and OMG GOLD BINIKI!!!! If there's anything prime-time commercial have taught me, it's that erections lasting more than 4 hours should be checked out by a doctor, this one has gone on for almost thirty years. Let it go. Or better yet crank one out to "Leia" as she appears in 2010, and see if any of you will ever be able to find your penises after that. So if killing the space slug is all it takes to restore a sci-fi feminist icon to her rightful place and away from the sweaty palms of hyper-ventillating nerds, then so be it. Hell, I'll climb on top of the bastard myself and salt him to death with my rage-filled tears. (emphasis mine)
The cool part is that Ominouri won the contest. I love her point of view though. It makes me want to go "Hell Yeah!" and rally up beside her.
~Lockea