Princess Leia Organa

Princess Leia Organa

We all know about the wonderful princess Leia from Star Wars. I don’t think there is any need to say too much about her; I would suspect that anyone who visits this site knows fully well why she belongs here. I’ll just give you short recap though, if it by any chance is needed.

Leia is a wonderful example of someone who might start out like a the damsel in distress type of character, but is far from helpless. She is portrayed all throughout the movies as an incredibly courageous, headstrong, intelligent and capable woman.

She is apparently an accomplished politician. She can lead forces into battle and organize rebel soldiers. She’s an excellent marksman and she also seems to possess great strength, being able to strangle the massive Jabba the Hutt with a chain. She has a sharp mind and she can deliver wonderfully sharp little insults as well.

Side note: I realize that a lot of what I’ve said, as well as a lot of what I’m going to say, applies just as much to Queen Amidala from the new movies. But I won’t be mentioning her anymore in this post, because I generally pretend that the new movies don’t exist. I like to pretend that they are just some huge prank played on all the people who have waited for parts 1-3 since the eighties, and that any day now we will get to see the new movies. So Amidala doesn’t exist, even if she does happen to be in the video below.

We love women like her. We do not love the following video. The following video is concentrated pain for almost any Star Wars fan. And the part with Leia is by far the worst to me (and I have to admit that I kind of liked Vader and the Stormtroopers dancing Thriller. Seriously, Vader doing pelvic thrusts, how could that possibly be wrong?).

The part with Leia and the other girls is just… I have no words. I just feel that they could not possibly have chosen a worse song for them to dance for. Seriously, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”?

Now I know that this is considered to be some kind of feminist anthem because. And I guess that it can be, since it depicts girls who do what they want instead of what society expects of them. And that’s good, and I guess that fits with Leia too.

But other than that it just doesn’t fit. “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” seems to be about frivolous girls who care very little about anything but moments of fleeting fun. Leia on the other hand has an enormous sense of duty and honor, and she seems to spend as much of her life as possible doing the things she feels are truly important.

Leia was royalty on Alderaan. In all likelihood she could have just stayed there and had as much fun as she wanted to, but she didn’t. Instead she chose to be very actively involved with the rebellion in an almost suicidal effort to save the galaxy from evil. Now they have her character gleefully dancing around looking ditzy, while mouthing “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”.

It is painful. There should have been more pelvic thrusting Darth Vader instead. Seriously.