Princess Leia: Feminist Icon or Sexist Trope?
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Megan Kearns |
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In the Star Wars trilogy, Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan (played by Carrie Fisher) was a member of the Imperial Senate, a diplomat, and a spy for the Rebel Alliance. Courageous and determined, she boasted a defiant will. Leia boldly spoke her mind. And it’s what resonated the most with me.
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When I was 7, my mom sewed together a Princess Leia costume for me for Halloween -- a white dress with a hood cinched around the waist with a sparkly belt, accompanied by a plastic light saber. Yes, I realize Leia didn’t wield a light saber in the movies, but she did have a laser gun.
I continued to wear that costume long after Halloween. Every week (sometimes multiple times a week), I would pop in our VHS of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, don my white dress, and act out Princess Leia’s scenes. I probably would have worn that costume to school if my mother had let me.
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So, yes, Leia is a princess. But she’s a bad ass warrior princess -- a precursor to the rise of the warrior princesses.
(Russianvids) She lives! She lives? Carrie Fisher may not be dead.
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