Comments on: This is why we can’t have nice things

By: John Hunt

John Hunt — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 03:16:17 +0000

How about Zelda from ‘Terrahawks?’ Showing my age there.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 10:10:15 +0000

@Synthetase

Cruella de Vil was The Guardian’s nickname for Edwina Currie, who I’m sure must have appeared on BBCQT at some point,

By: John P.

John P. — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 08:45:47 +0000

Well, you certainly hit the ethnicity target.

By: Synthetase

Synthetase — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 13:11:45 +0000

I think at the end of the day most of those sorts of characters are stereotypes anyway. How about Cruella de Vil?

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 15:49:11 +0000

Admittedly I chose the first names that came into my head and didn’t expect a throwaway tweet to be scrutinised for diversity targets.

But I can’t thnk of that many obvious cartoonishly over-the-top female villains that loom anywhere near as large in popular culture. But that might be because it’s harder to do a female Jabba the Hutt or Blofeld that doesn’t come over as a sexist stereotype?

By: Synthetase

Synthetase — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 02:46:04 +0000

Ah see, obviously you should have included Miss Piggy.

Personally, I’d have left the tweet up. I figure if people want to deliberately take things the wrong way or get their nickers in a twist about something that isn’t even there, that’s their bag.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 18:15:18 +0000

And if The Eye of Sauron is a psychic construct with no physical body at all….

By: David Meadows

David Meadows — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 18:06:26 +0000

(That was humour, by the way, before any Hutts express outrange at being compared to Terran slugs.)

By: David Meadows

David Meadows — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 18:05:28 +0000

Do we know for certain that Hutts are a species with two genders and that Jabba self-identifes as male?

For reference, Terran slugs are hermaphrodites.