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Is it Leia's fault?

By catdynamics on August 15, 2006.

No_Nym, guestblogging on Bitch PhD suggests that Princess Leia is to blame for the dearth of women in science and engineering...


Princess Leia - Return of the Jedi "slave girl" version 3.0

Hm. Not sure.

Her point on Dora the Explorer is good though, bringing in cousin Diego was a major sell-out.

Still not nearly as bad as "Princess Disney" or "Barbie".

Is this a good time to link to a favourite David Brin rant on the Evil That Is The Star Wars Meme?
I worried about this until a) Jar-Jar Binks and b) the Jedi attack at the arena to rescue He Who Can Not Act
Proof conclusive.

UPDATE: read Shelley's post on Retrospectacle - she makes the case for Leia well, although I still tend to side with David (Brin) that the overall tone of Star Wars is antiscientific.
It is not Leia's fault, but that dweeb of a brother she got stuck with.

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dude, you should have labelled this "not work safe."

The dumb filter they have where I work would probably block the whole page anyway.

Hi, Steinn.

If you look, I also linked to Brin's stories on Star Wars. I think I'll blog more reasons to hate Lucas next week. See also my comments to Shelley.