Stop over-saturation of female characters in star wars. Why?

@gary435432

Maybe you need new friends. Me and my three sisters all love Star Wars, lots of my female friends too! 🙂

(Just came home one hour ago from watching Star Wars: The Last Jedi on cinema a second time)

In how many of the games that I play do you think the main character is a male? And in the games I play where you can choose gender, lots of guys want to play as a female anyway, so not all men seem to have the same problem as you.

Gaming should be for everyone, and if we let women have more role models in gaming maybe more of them will become interested in it, amazing right? There are millions of games that you can play if you're unhappy with a female main character.

Welcome to the 21st century. :eahigh_file:

The decision to make the protagonist of the Battlefront 2 campaign female probably wasn't so they could solely pander to a female demographic, no more than the original Alien film did with their protagonist Ripley coincidentally being female, nor Terminator with Sarah Connor.

Men shouldn't feel alienated because the main character is female, (or vice versa with roles reversed) especially when it's not important to the plot. The gender of Iden Versio is largely unimportant when it comes to her role in the bigger picture which is Star Wars, characters barely bring it up since it's more about her character, who she is, rather than her gender. 

We should welcome strong women protagonists into Star Wars, not be angry about them. If there were more female protagonists, perhaps the Star Wars franchise wouldn’t “95% male” (which I also seriously doubt). I think it is important to teach young girls that they too can be the hero of a story, and if one way to do that is through Star Wars, that is great. I don’t think anything about Verso’s story changes because she is a woman-hell half the time she is wearing a helmet or mask and you can’t tell what gender she is! 

In fact, my wife (who really doesn’t care about Star Wars, and who I feel most of the time tolerates me talking about it because she loves me), wants to go see The Last Jedi. I don’t know if that has anything to do with the fact that there are more females in the movie, but she definitely has never wanted to see Star Wars in the theatre before. So that is a good thing! 

I will say that Rey is really the only Jedi character I have really liked in the entire Star Wars series, so I don’t feel that Star Wars having strong female leads is bad at all. 

@CMeki

I agree totally with you about the lack of games with female protagonists. I am hoping that 2017 having two huge releases with female protagonists (BFII and Horizon: Zero Dawn) will begin to change that! 

There is a line from an XWING book where one of the human characters complains that he doesn’t want to room with an alien because “he smells.” Wedge tells him to, “imagine how you smell to him.” Not the same thing, but I think the author should consider how it is for a woman to play games and/or enjoy sci-fi in “a man’s world."

Keep on enjoying Star Wars, girl.