Disappointing lack of female characters

How come there is only one male actor in the new Oceans 8 movie? How come there is no Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue featuring men?

I agree with you 100%. :)

I only counted 7 women total. Rogue One would be very progressive with female representation - in 1977. Way less than The Force Awakens. #SausageFest I think it's wonderful that Jyn was Rogue One's female lead, but that's no excuse to shortchange women on female representation. Only 1 female, and no women of color, in Star Wars' main cast should not be acceptable in 2017. After The Force Awakens' cast reveal backlash in 2014, you'd think they'd know better.

I wish Lucasfilm had a general policy where half the cast of every Star Wars film was a diverse group of women, from leads to extras. Why not reflect the real world? Too often, characters are "white male" or "male" default, which screws over women. All the Star Wars writers and directors continue to be white men.

Every Star Wars female lead, from 1977 to the upcoming films, is a white brunette. Not even a blonde in the mix. All of them remind me of Kathleen Kennedy. It feels like black women are more likely to play aliens in Star Wars than human beings. An Oscar winner played an old bland alien while several white women got to be the female lead.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I also didn't like how they killed off Jyn's mother for no real reason. They do that so often in movies. That, or ignore them altogether. It's almost always the father who's important to the protagonist.

I wish Jyn and Lyra were a mother-daughter women of color duo that led a diverse team of men and women. It's be both refreshing and inclusive.

how on Yavin is Rogue One any less progressive than The Force Awakens? Both had female leads that had limited interaction with other women ( I don't count Rey's VERY limited interaction with Maz orange yoda, who is a creature and a complete underutilization of the massively talented Lupita Nyong'o but I digress). Who were Rey's female friends ? Which woman did she recruit again?

Let's do a headcount, shall we?

Rogue One:
Three female pilots
Two Alliance leaders
Jyn
Jyn's Mother

The Force Awakens:
One female pilot
Leia
Two female resistance members
A First Order informant
Phasma
Rey

In context, both films treat women in the same fashion. The " HUGE step in the right direction" leaves the same footprint that Rouge One left. If you think Rogue One took the treatment of females in a retroactive direction, it Isn't Rogue One you should be looking at, but The Force Awakens. Sorry, but it sounds you just liked one film more than the Other and you are grasping at straws to validate your unhappiness.

I agree that Disney needs to pull it together to represent women with an equal and balanced approach. But it was not remedied in the Force Awakens. So far all I see is ad nauseum

If you don't like the way sexes are represented in a film then it is actually 'you' who is the sexist.

It's because most women in a galaxy far, far away are in the kitchen where they belong.

So you guys want more women in the new Star Wars movies? These movies have been undergoing quite a ton of backlash from fans who accuse them of political correctness. By any chance, did you end up having any kind of disagreement or argument with them? How did that turn out?

As for me, I would be pretty skeptical if I am expecting a surprisingly even amount of men and women in locations and groups like armies and rebellions, where they were expected to be mostly men. But I can't judge anything until I see the actual result in such movies.

Ever watch Firefly and its movie, Serenity? Now there's an example of better gender balance.