Mf Galaxy

Star Wars, The Last Jedi has got people talking about its exciting characters and battles and how iconic characters achieve their glory or meet their end. And for the first time there are plenty of female speaking roles in a Star Wars film: Rey, Rose and Paige Tico, Vice Admiral Holdo, Maz Kanata, Captain Phasma, and of course Princess Leia. Some people claim, though, that reactions to the film are split along gender lines—that men hate it and women love it, because it's the first Star Wars film to ask and answer the question, "What happens when men don't listen to women?" Well, obviously there are women who hate the film and men who love it (me included), but rather than argue about love-hate gender percentages that no one has actually measured, why not just ask some remarkable women what they thought about the female characters, their personalities and deeds, and whether the film does them justice? So I did. On today's MF GALAXY you'll hear from Lisa Yaszek, science fiction scholar at Georgia Tech; Sylvia D