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5 years ago

Catfighting is Overrated

The sexist fridging of Meetra Surik to make Revan suffer has already been discussed in depth already, but the one thing no one has mentioned is that apparently Bastila Shan doesn’t get along with her and is jealous of her “special relationship” with Revan. The whole women fighting over a man is overdone, overrated, and sexist. It assumes that every woman wants/needs a man (ignoring preferring women, being asexual, being aromantic, or gasp! deciding you’re happy being single), and that all women are in competition for men. Not that this doesn’t happen in real life, but to assume that the only way women relate to each other is viewing each other as competition for “getting” a man is cliché and sexist. 

The main reason I headcanon Meetra and Bastila as BFFs is a big FU to Karpsyshyn’s sexist writing, and it’s way more complex and fascinating to have Bastila and Meetra, be BFFs who had a falling out over Meetra joining the Revanchists then to have them be another cliché catfight over a man. 


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