Feminist Joy at Rumored ‘First Female’ Star Wars Droid

Heat Street ^ | February 15, 2017 | Staff

[C19fan]

Feminists were celebrating a fresh victory for equality as rumors began to circulate that the Star Wars movies will feature a female droid for the first time.

Casting for the upcoming Han Solo origin movie is underway, and reportedly involves a major part for droids who are female.

[tophat9000]

Cool but that “Women” box need a speaker so it can bitch, nag and give directions on what to do

[thoughtomator]

Damn Appliantologists causing mischief again.

[BlueLancer]

"Cool but that “Women” box need a speaker so it can bitch, nag and give directions on what to do."

Like telling you to twist the knobs faster or slower? Push the buttons harder or more lightly?

[tophat9000]

Yep men are a toggle switch ...
Women are a flakey rheostat...(ironically AKA “a dirty pot”)

[a fool in paradise]

I’m still waiting for the Bride of Pinbot photos in this thread

[a fool in paradise]

Hel yeah

[Mathews]

I thought one of the droids had a female voice in the scene where Luke and Leia were born?

[Little Ray]

I thought Jill (the British English voice) was the one supposed to be giving the directions?

[ClearBlueSky]

Hmmm, if you took a generic droid body and had female/male voice modules would it be ‘transgendered’ or would that require the addition/subtraction of actual appendages? And- if there ARE droid genders, could they ‘interface’ in public?

[PLMerite]

You mean they didn’t call it “ho-bot”?

[ExGeeEye]

Yes! Obi-Jee-Wyen, wasn’t it? (just kidding, but yeah)

[castlebrew]

Paging Harcourt Fenton Mudd...

[dearolddad]

You can tell a female droid: every 28 days she has an oil leak.

[Dead Corpse]

K-3P8, or Kate. Cloud City on Bespin. Just before C-3PO gets blasted, she insults him...

Of course, this was before Disney tossed the entire Universe out the window to re-write it all...

[BradyLS]

There was that one. And the “waitress” in that diner Obiwan goes to visit his fry-cook buddy in Attack of the Clones.

[BradyLS]

Back in 1965 there was SF-709 on TV...

I wonder if Star Trek: Voyager makes a subtle reference to her with Jerry Ryan's "Seven of Nine" Borg character?"

[MarkL]

This will be at least the third female droid...

#1 - Rosie

#2 - Dot Matrix

Hollywood is just incapable of anything remotely original!

Mark

[Trillian]

It could just as easily be one of these ;)

[fieldmarshaldj]

I see whut you did there.

[simpson96]

Let's not forget Rachel from Bladerunner.