Star Wars novelist strikes back at gay character slurs

wisefolly · Sep 12, 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/books/20...ck-wendig-strikes-back-at-gay-character-slurs

“If you’re upset because I put gay characters and a gay protagonist in the book, I got nothing for you,” Wendig wrote. “Sorry, you squawking saurian — meteor’s coming. And it’s a fabulously gay Nyan Cat meteor with a rainbow trailing behind it and your mode of thought will be extinct.”

“You’re not the Rebel Alliance. You’re not the good guys. You’re the fucking Empire, man. You’re the shitty, oppressive, totalitarian Empire. If you can imagine a world where Luke Skywalker would be irritated that there were gay people around him, you completely missed the point of Star Wars. It’s like trying to picture Jesus kicking lepers in the throat instead of curing them. Stop being the Empire. Join the Rebel Alliance. We have love and inclusion and great music and cute droids.”

He later told a reader who attacked his confrontational approach to his critics that he would not engage in a conversation on the issue. “Because on this, I am not interested in conversation,” he wrote on his blog. “If your problem with the book is only the inclusion of gay characters, then no conversation is possible. Because that’s homophobia, that’s bigotry, and there’s nothing to be done or said. Someone wants to talk to me about the writing style or whatever, sure, I can have that discussion. On this, no.”
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This response---nice.

It only took about 30 years before a few gay characters showed up in anything Star Wars (let's not get into the "canon" problem) and now, almost 10 years after that people are getting mad about a character in a new book? Like, there's no danger of an LGBT character getting in any of the movies anytime soon so what do they care? Cuz nobody reads books...:rolle:

Star Trek 40 years.... still waiting.

Meanwhile there's plenty of other sci-fi and fantasy that include the alphabet community, right?

That don't hide it in extremely subtle, almost not even there ways? Or acknowledge it only outside the series itself? Or that don't wait until the last 10 seconds of the series finale to even acknowledge it?

Right?

blaziken25 · Sep 12, 2015

Being a member of several Star Wars fan groups - I can say that most Star Wars fans are close minded homophobes. Mainly because of their age and gender.

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