[HPFGU-OTChatter] Character Identification (was Does JKR'sportrayal of woment combat sexism?)

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 6:49 AM -0500 7/23/02, Richelle Votaw wrote:
>  >
>>  Back when we used to play "Star Wars" as kids, lots of girls wanted
>>  to be Princess Leia.  But lots of girls wanted to be Luke Skywalker,
>>  too.  A few of us wanted to be Chewie or R2-D2.  Almost none of us
>>  wanted to be Han, or Obi-Wan.  Most boys wanted to be Luke or Han; I
>>  don't remember many takers for Obi-Wan for them, either.  Nobody
>>  wanted to be Mon Mothma, sadly enough . . .
>
>Hey, watch it now.  I always wanted to be Han Solo! :)

You were probably older than we were at the time.  None of us had 
gotten to a hot-rodding phase yet - I suspect there'd've been more 
girls bidding for the han role if they had.  ;)

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