By :According to the Wookieepedia, Rey is a ‘force sensitive human female scavenger’ who conducts her trade on the planet of Jakku, located in a remote section of the Western Reaches, thirty years after the Battle of Endor. These factoids are all relevant to who Rey is, as a person, but since feminists have a hard time seeing individuals as humans (and are embarrassingly ignorant about science fiction worlds in general), Rey was immediately proclaimed a feminist heroine because she has a vagina and does manly stuff, like pilot ships, fix them when they break and speak more than one language.
Naturally, it didn’t take long before feminists started in-fighting over Rey, with enthusiasts declaring her freaking amazing, and detractors muttering over her “Mary Sue” status. I’m particularly amused by Casey Cipriani, writing at Bustle, who writes “[t]he very existence of Rey was a bright spot in the often dark pit of female representation in science fiction, particularly in Hollywood blockbusters.”
Really, Casey? Didn’t feminists just wrap up caterwauling over Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road? Are your memories really that short? And what rock do you need to live under to have missed that whole Terminator and Alien blockbuster franchise thingy?
Naturally, it didn’t take long before feminists started in-fighting over Rey, with enthusiasts declaring her freaking amazing, and detractors muttering over her “Mary Sue” status. I’m particularly amused by Casey Cipriani, writing at Bustle, who writes “[t]he very existence of Rey was a bright spot in the often dark pit of female representation in science fiction, particularly in Hollywood blockbusters.”
Really, Casey? Didn’t feminists just wrap up caterwauling over Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road? Are your memories really that short? And what rock do you need to live under to have missed that whole Terminator and Alien blockbuster franchise thingy?





