Here’s a theory: you might not have noticed that you were surrounded by female Star Wars fans all these years because you were the one who rendered them invisible.
In my newest column for the @newstatesman, I had a few things to say about JJ Abrams’s “a boy’s thing” comment yesterday, as well as fake geek girling and representation. Inspired by all the extraordinary conversations I saw yesterday from fandom friends, including @tea-and-liminality, @heidi8, @mazarin221b, @marsdaydream, and @emmagrant01. (via elizabethminkel)
I was so glad to see this! I saw Star Wars in theaters about 14 times. In the 70s. My entire neighborhood played enormous Star Wars games–it *never* occurred to anyone that it was a “boy” movie.
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THIS.
My first thought when I saw those annoying headlines was, “Nobody talked about original Star Wars as being for boys or girls when it came out; it was a ‘film for the whole family,’” if they ever talked demographics at all.
Good grief, does Abrams really think Star Wars became popular through half the audience staying home? Does he think girls didn’t have Star Wars action figures and covet the landspeeder that looked like it was floating and that fantastic Death Star playset? Does he think we weren’t play-acting Luke and saving the princess (my neighbor was very accommodating about being Leia)? What is wrong with showrunners today that they all keep giving themselves public pats on the back about they’re finally being GRACIOUS enough to let girls into the club?
Oh, right. They’re the boys that cartoons used to spoof, the ones with the big Girls Keep Out sign on their treehouse. So girls (and boys; I had geek male friends too in high school) never asked them to join our D&D campaigns or come over to play Zaxxon.
Shame on JJ Abrams and Steven Moffatt and all the adult geek boys of today who have developed collective amnesia about all the girls playing with Star Wars figures, geeking about Star Trek, learning Elvish, reading comics on long car rides, recording Doctor Who off PBS, programming on Commodore 64s, gaming on Ataris, and being masochistic Dungeon Masters. I am sick of having to shout to the rafters, again and again and again, a la Kosh of Babylon 5, that WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE.
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So, can “WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE” be the slogan for female geeks? Seriously. That’s the best fucking tag for female geeks.
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Seconded.
reblogging for the slogan.
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