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Feminists, stay away from my Star Wars. Thanks.

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/04/...xternal,manual

Eliza Thompson at Cosmopolitan wrote:

There is absolutely no reason why there can’t be new characters added to account for the lack of women in the original trilogy and the newer trilogy.

Annalee Newitz at IO9 quite elegantly wrote:

Myths are powerful things, because we learn who we are by telling stories. When are we going to let little girls and kids of diverse races have fantasies as powerful as those given to white boys?

Julie from Chicago Now wondered "where my ladies at" for her piece:

Yeah, I am disappointed that J.J. Abrams, the man who brought us two of the most kick ass (in different ways) female TV characters of the century (Felicity and Sydney Bristow) couldn’t be bothered to toss more than one new female character into the new Star Wars movie.

Devin Faraci from BadassDigest wrote:

Women make up 51% of the population of this planet. We can extrapolate that even in a galaxy far, far away and in a time that is long ago that ratio is somewhat the same. So why is Star Wars Episode VII so very, very dude-y?

Laura Hudson at Wired decided a bit of research was needed:

If you count up all the significant female characters who appear in the original Star Wars trilogy, the list reads as follows … Princess Leia.

Gavia Baker at the Daily Dot predicted:

J.J. Abrams’s vision of Star Wars is a dystopia far more disturbing than anything Darth Vader could have hoped for: a universe where, without any real explanation, the vast majority of women are somewhere far, far away.