Summary: Today's episode is the first of our new series "Women in Star Wars", covering portrayals of female characters, feminism and gender dynamics in Star Wars, as well as a discussion of women in the Star Wars fandom. In today's discussion Lee, Denise and Mary discuss their experiences as women from different backgrounds, nationalities and age brackets participating in the general Star Wars and Reylo fandoms. CONTENT: 00:19 Introduction: Women in Star Wars 00:55 How Denise got into Star Wars: ROTJ all day erryday, the Yubnub Song mini-debate and Star Wars in Brazil 03:55 How Mary got into Star Wars: overcoming the fear of Vader money boxes to watch ANH and falling in love with Mara Jade 07:05 How Lee became a Sith: lightsaber duels with umbrellas and reflections on growing up as a bi-cultural kid in 1990’s Latin America 10:30 Where my Jedi/Sith girls at? 14:17 Not everyone was happy about George Lucas giving up custody 18:23 How Denise got into the fandom life: TCW and increasingly aggressive pre-TFA online speculation 21:25 How Lee got into the fandom: the intergalactic experience of TFA and Reylo recognition described in detail 25:00 Trouble in paradise: show us your Star Wars credentials and other fandom BS 28:00 Why Mary’s cosplaying is not as fun as it used to be :( 31:02 Campaigning for Ben Solo at Star Wars Celebration Orlando 2016 33:03 Fear itself 36:36 Weaponizing “feminism“: A Kylo Ren “apologist” reflects on “woman-ning in the right way” 38:05 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition 39:15 When a Reylo podcast finally dared to utter the word “Reylo” and talking Star Wars in person 42:51 “Star Wars is also for women?” ,”Where’s my masculine Star Wars?” and other strange questions 45:48 “Reylo is Twilight” = ”GTFO muh Star Wars”? 47:37 Lee’s controversial opinion of the day: the Force ain’t female, not all TLJ-haterz are male, and name-calling is lame 52:00 EU fans and the new canon 53:20 why are Reylo fans so Kylorenattacked? 54:26 Kylo Ren is beautiful and wears a man-gown: cue outrage 56:45 Am I interloping? Star Wars as a symbol of masculinity 1:01:55 "Control...suits me"--and thoughts on Harley Quinn 1:04:00 The irony: it turns out that Reylo is a celebration of a young woman's power 1:05:25 Let's chat *Note: the video version of this discussion is still being edited and will be uploaded to our YouTube channel next week. In other news: we're on iTunes now, huzzah! itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lords…ast/id1419179407 MUSIC: Intro: Loyalty Freak music - Extra Metal freemusicarchive.org/music/Loyalty_…c/HYPER_METAL_ Outro: Stellardrone - Fermi Paradox Stellardrone – Stellardrone-07-fermi-paradox
