I don’t think Disney actually gets why everyone is so upset about Ben Solo.
He was the first non-toxically masculine and emotionally vulnerable male character in a big movie franchise. He was a byronic hero and was a character that was written incorporating the female and queer audience. Also incorporated the men who were relentlessly ridiculed for having any amount of emotional intelligence and vulnerability growing up. He cried. He held the hand of his lover and told her that she wasn’t alone. He begged her for companionship. He was human and loving. He wasn’t a caricature “villain,” just a broken boy who was hiding behind a mask to protect himself.
And then you kept the pew pew flyboy alive to satisfy the dudebros and killed off the actually complex and well-rounded male character.
That is sickening.
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