'You Just Hate Rey Cause She's A Girl!'

I debunked the argument that Star Wars fans who don't like Rey are just sexist mysoginistic bigots, because it turns out that only idiots think that. Fans LOVE Princess Leia, Padme Amidala, and Ahsoka Tano.

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#StarWars #Rey #PrincessLeia

[Tigertheawesome]

rey fans: YoU JUSt hATE REY BeCAuSE ShE IS A WOMAn
scarlet witch: what fans

[grimtunes]

The first time rey and kylo faught had me laughing.
Kylo was winning and said "you need a teacher, i can teach you about the force"
And rey said "the force?" then she closes her eyes for 5 seconds and suddenly starts winning the fight as if the force made her 50 times stronger.

[daniels]

Leia was not just popular, she was iconic. Lucas threw all the old sci-fi stereotypes out the airlock when he introduced the "princess" who also happened to be a talented political and military leader, capable of handling herself in a fight, and who was the one who really convinced ambivalent men like Luke and (especially) Han to sign on for a heroic cause. Feminists of the 1970's-80's adored her. Rey is hated because she is contrived. Within a few *days* of finding out that the Force is real she is suddenly as powerful as Jedi Master. Yet her character was written without any real personality. Whereas Leia was a political activist who had the respect of even much older men around her (and genuine rank within the Rebel Alliance), Rey is just a two-dimensional cutout who can only inspire because she has canon-breaking superpowers.

[Nechama_Miriam]

Disney: Meet our new super cool and powerful female protagonist Rey!!

Star Wars fans: 𝗔𝗵𝘀𝗼𝗸𝗮

[StarWarsGuy]

Rey: hated
Feminists: Rey is hated cause she’s the only girl boss in Star Wars!
Me: *inhales* Leia Organa, Padme Amidala, Ahsoka Tano, Aayla secura, Shaak ti, bastilla Shan, satele Shan, Mara jade Skywalker, Luminara Unduli, Darth Talon, asajj Ventress, Hera Syndulla, Jyn Erso, Cara Dune, Fennec Shand, Bo Katan (in clone wars at least), Iden Versio, THE LIST GOES ON! *catches breath*
Feminist: …

[ShadowRomain_]

without training talent means nothing. -Luke skywalker

[cueball]

"You just hate Women characters"
Bruh, have you ever seen Princess Leia, Padme Amadalla, Mina Bonteri, Ahsoka Tano, Asajj Ventress, Hera Syndulla, Bo Katan, Jyn Erso etc...

[jax-]

We all like Ahsoka and she's a girl 🤷🏻‍♂️, Disney needs to work on their character development lolz.

[dalV_Studio]

Ahsoka, Leia(4-6 movies), and Padme are great








The reason Padme is on the same level:
Anakin: "You call it a diplomatic solution"
Padme: "No, i call it aggressive negotiations"

[Onio_]

There's female characters like Ahsoka, Leia, and Abeloth that we actually love, and they are powerful too. They all have a backstory that explains why they were as powerful as they were. Rey didn't have any experience with the force until the force awakens, and in the force awakens, she got that powerful out of nowhere. Ahsoka trained in the Jedi temple her whole life and might even surpass Anakin. It takes time to get stronger in the force. U don't just get powerful from out of nowhere, u have to earn it. I also wouldn't mind having Rey be a main character if she got character development just like everyone else.

[johhanwindsalor]

Most of us... not all, but most... don't like Rey because she didn't "earn it."

[KingSteady]

100% right brother. It goes even further too. Not just star wars. They said the same about Captain Marvel too. Yet we all loved the kill bills, aliens, and underworlds, with female leads. We just want characters to earn their skills.

[ireneisameme]

Fr, I am a girl, and I was eight when Force Awakens came out. And I had already watched all the movies and a bit of TCW. And I loved Leia, Padmé and especially Ahsoka! And also when Rogue One came out, I thought that Jyn Erso was a really great character. But Rey didn't make it for me at first, and as the story progressed I disliked her even more. I was shoved the "strong female characters" down my throat, and everything was justified with "oh it's for the young girls who will finally see themselves as heroes in movies!" But as a young girl, I only felt ashamed, because I wasn't as perfect first try. I resonated much more with other characters created with passion rather than those created to forcibly become my role models.

[Blackout-Official-edits]

Just to simple things up.

Rey is flawless, is great A’s everything she does, and she beats a dark side user who has been trained by Luke and Snoke, plus Kylo Ren is Anakin’s grandson, the literal Chosen One.

The actress of Rey is actually pretty good. It’s the writing of people who don’t know how to write Star Wars.

[jacke]

Daisy Ridley didn't deserve the hate thrown her way for this, she's doing what she can with the script provided. But yeah, the character needed to earn her place and learn what it meant to be a jedi.

[UrMentalHealth]

I love your videos, no long and boring intros, asking for likes and subs every five seconds. You just go straight to the point

[grimtunes]

Some of my favorite star wars characters are women, such as ashoka, padme, mina bonteri and luminara

[cernstormrunner]

i got called a Nazi for stating that i preferred The Phantom Menace to The Force Awakens, because there were too many white men in TPM

[briceboyee]

Rey being defended by women, or anyone in general just because she is a woman, is made so tragically ironic by the fact that rey is an incredible example of disservice to them.

What I mean by disservice:
Rey is unrelatable, never showing us failure.
By extension, Rey never shows the audience what incredible learning/growth can come from being truely strong/persistant, and picking one's self back up.
If you really want a strong female role model in film for your little girl to look up too, you'd want her (the character) to be realistic enough to the point at which your kid can both relate to them, and learn from them. What better a unifier, AND also teacher, than failure!!?

Disney doesn't give a fuck about your demographic. Rather, they care about *appealing* to you by flashing your demographic's virtues, for the sake of pulling a profit off of you, said demographic.

It's a LOT like Andor says on Narkina 5: "They don't care, they don't need to care, all they need to do is turn this floor on twice a day and keep their numbers rolling."

Rey is not a symbol of female empowerment, she is a symbol of a demographic being taken advantage of for profit by the fucking machine of an empire known as Disney.

May we one day stop this pointless digital bickering of claiming people are sexist, or racist, or whateverist, based on what television characters people say they do, or do not, like...
and redirect our frustrations to where they've truly belonged all along, with DISNEY.

[will_o_wisp]

Thank you, I agree wholeheartedly with everything you said. I am a small author myself and I was creating characters before I started taking writing seriously and the hate directed towards Rey has nothing to do with her being a female, it's because she's a horribly written character. The problem with characters like Rey is they're written to be "strong female characters" but they have no personality outside of that, a small tip I got from my writing teacher is never create a "strong female character" but rather create a strong character who happens to be female because despite how strong females are we can't do EVERYTHING on our own. A good character needs to be complex, have flaws, faults, weaknesses and shortcomings, it's far more interesting to watch someone who works with people to solve problems while over time developing their own unique "thing" and if that thing is them being a strong female character then it should never be said for their actions/skill-set will speak volumes