Lots of people are excited because Gwendoline Christie (famous for playing Brienne of Tarth) has been cast in the role of Captain Phasma. While that is awesome, personally I’m excited that this makes non-gendered imperial armor canon.
Star Wars has been pretty hit or miss in the past and I’m not making any speculations on the rest of the upcoming releases – but it appears that this is a glorious victory.
(Thank you to the-mad-art for bringing this to our attention.)
– wincenworks
noknightinarmor submitted:
A colouring book of women who participated in the US Civil War I bought at Gettysburg, PA when I visited ages ago. As you can see the women’s uniforms looked like the men’s with the optional addition of a skirt, and Cpt. Tompkins wore her jacket and sash over her dress.
I wanted to add some of these images to this post as well, because the OP is just plain wrong.
Thank you for sharing these. I had a look into these and it appears Amazon has a few copies for sale – Barnes and Noble too. It looks like Peter F Copeland has done a number of books like this. Including one which specifies Heroes and Heroines of the American Revolution.
Awesome stuff.
– wincenworks
edit: Important note regarding the sixth person presented in this photoset, the soldier credited in the book as “Jennie Hodgers (alias
replied:
Albert Cashier was a trans MAN, not a woman. Please don’t erase his existence by claiming he was a woman, not a trans man. He lived his whole life before and after the war as Albert. He was buried with honors as Albert.
Thank you for that clarification, likeironlies!
~Ozzie
prettybirdswagger submitted:
I’m surprised this game hasn’t been discussed yet. Crypt of the Necrodancer came out of early access on Steam just a few days ago, and it’s excellent, both in terms of gameplay and an abundance of strong, practically dressed female characters. Here’s Cadence, the protagonist.
We have featured the game on our Steam Curator page, however this seems the perfect time to mention here as it’s on sale (25% off until April 30). In addition to being a really cool, novel take on the dungeon crawling it also features more diversity than most mainstream games (though the characters must be unlocked).
Overall I think Cadence is a really awesome example of a great female character put out by indie game developers and I really hope to see more like her!
– wincenworks