I don't suppose anyone would like to consider the broader context of any of the discussion/clips involved here.
First, the interview that's being cited? Yeah, it was done in
2015. It has, let's be clear, not a damn thing to do with Star Wars. At all. Even a little bit.
More importantly, you might want to consider the context in which she made those statements and what else was going on in her life at the time. The interview was apparently recorded in April, 2015. In October of that same year, she released a film titled A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness. It's about honor killings in Pakistan, and specifically a nineteen year old girl who survived an attempted honor killing by her father and uncle.
Now, when she's talking about "making men uncomfortable," I promise you, she is
not talking about a bunch of dudes like those posting here, at least not in the moment and context in which she made that statement. More likely, I'd guess she's talking about, oh, I don't know, for starters the ****ing monsters who would
literally murder their own children to protect their own reputations. She goes on to talk in the interview about how, within her own country, she's sometimes considered a traitor because she dares expose and criticize actions like this.
But sure, let's take these comments here and spin them up in to the usual argy-bargy about South Park woke blah blah blah as if it has ANYTHING WHATSOEVER to do with Star Wars. It doesn't.
Wake up. You are being played for fools by the people promoting this crap.
This is one of the big reasons why I tend to ignore youtube commentary stuff. From anyone. Including people with whom I may agree politically. There are whole swaths of people who make a living profiting off of our anger and trying to bait us into paying attention to them by throwing out rage-chum like this.
Folks, I am begging you to do nothing more than just
remain skeptical when you see some 2 second clip of an interview from
nine years ago being bandied about today as proof of Disney's woke agenda blah blah blah, especially from professional rage trolls.
Do some due diligence. I found the full video, which I've posted below, in about 5 minutes of digging. I pulled up Obaid-Chinoy's Wikipedia page to look at her filmography, where I saw that she was primarily a journalist and documentary filmmaker who has focused a decent amount of her career covering her native Pakistan.
But sure, let's reduce her and all things Disney to a roughly 2 minute clip from nine years ago that was done at a women-in-film panel put on by an organization focused primarily on women, mediated by Jon Stewart, and use that as a springboard to freak the **** out about the future of Star Wars.
...how come the female heroes don't have a problem with their conscience?
