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This is a Serious Question
Jun. 25th, 2009 04:13 pmOk, not really, but put your imagination caps on people. Let's imagine a verse where Obi-Wan Kenobi is a cis woman. Jedi being Jedi, her childhood is largely the same as his. Initiate Kenobi is talented, hardworking and generally awesome, aside from her too quick temper, and her insecurities. She has the same childhood friends and enemies. She clashes with Bruck Chun, and has trouble convincing Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn to take her on as his apprentice. Eventually she does, and over the years, the Jinn-Kenobi team grows into one of the best in the Order.
One day they're dispatched to Naboo, to mediate between the Trade Federation and the Naboo planetary government. Stuff happens, and when the dust settles, a newly knighted Obi-Wan Kenobi is charged with training Anakin Skywalker. While I don't think the Jinn-Kenobi relationship would be significantly different, had one of them been female and not male, it seems obvious to me that Anakin responds very differently to women and men, and that in general, his thinking is more, well, gendered. Would a sister/mother figure be better/worse/just different from a brother/father figure? If Anakin left the care of his mother, to be raised by another, albeit younger and much more emotionally distant woman, would he have an easier time adapting? Harder? Same?
What do you guys think would be different?
One day they're dispatched to Naboo, to mediate between the Trade Federation and the Naboo planetary government. Stuff happens, and when the dust settles, a newly knighted Obi-Wan Kenobi is charged with training Anakin Skywalker. While I don't think the Jinn-Kenobi relationship would be significantly different, had one of them been female and not male, it seems obvious to me that Anakin responds very differently to women and men, and that in general, his thinking is more, well, gendered. Would a sister/mother figure be better/worse/just different from a brother/father figure? If Anakin left the care of his mother, to be raised by another, albeit younger and much more emotionally distant woman, would he have an easier time adapting? Harder? Same?
What do you guys think would be different?