riskllama wrote:ok, am just in the middle of episode IV, where the falcon escapes from the Death Star - Luke & Han are each manning a turret & it's just Leia & Chewie in the cockpit. do you think Han just handed over control of his means to earn a living to Leia - a complete stranger to him he met hours earlier - or to Chewbacca - his loyal co pilot of many years? i think we can thankfully put this debate to rest now, can't we?
Seems definitive.
Re: SJW
Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 12:05 pm
by riskllama
Chewie is also definitely piloting the Falcon when Lando, Leia & him take off from Bespin...
Re: SJW
Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 4:17 pm
by pickleofdoom
SJW is a bad name for a genuiune pernicious phenomenon which needs a good name. I can remember when Gordon Brown used to use the phrase "social justice" a lot. And I hardly think of him as a snowflake. It used to refer to things like workers rights and the minimum wage.
I saw an interview with Slavoj Zizek where he coined the name "radical centre," and identifies the phenomenon where marginal issues are used as a kind of outsourced revolutionary subject. So some marginalised group such as transgender is regarded as a proxy for the proletariat, and some bigots (maybe some uneducated working class white men) are a proxy for the oppressor class. This is allows them to feel that they are being radical, without engaging in anything like class struggle.
Re: SJW
Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 4:55 pm
by pickleofdoom
Here is a different perspective I just read, and it seemed worth considering:
2dimes wrote:This guy started complaining last year. He makes some reasonable points but
I'm not sure I care. I'm annoyed that they cast a guy that is nothing like Han Solo after Han Solo has been established for 40 years. Maybe they did that intentionally to undermine white male actors.
I disagree with the guy about Rey. I quite like her. For me she turns out way stronger than Leia.
