Star Wars – The Force Awakens: Fear Of Another Blackness And Another Femininity

Few of us who are geeks on the internet (perhaps I repeat myself) are unaware that some people are offended at “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” – over racial and gender issues. It’s not hard to find people complaining that:

There is a Stormtrooper who is black. There is a heroine who is female.

I’d go into why peopleseem to be disturbed by these completely unremarkable things, but it’s a bit hard to describe it beyond “bigotry and weird conspiracy theories” that seem to be a cover for assorte...