User blog comment:Darthjimscott4th/Male Jedi Exile Fan/@comment-952501-20100128051513

Brandon Rhea writes: >Darth - Because it makes literally no difference to me whatsoever if the Exile is male or female.

I reply: So your personal aesthetic in this particular story/game is one of neutrality I gather? Which naturally is valid for you. You don't feel a preference that the Exile should be either gender. IMHO when it comes to personal aesthetics one can't really give a reason because it's subjective.

Why should the Exile being male "feel" right to me but I feel the same indifference toward Revan's gender as you do the Exile's(official CANON aside)?

According to My Point Of View personal aesthetics can't really be justified rationally. They simply just are. It goes without saying you are free to disagree.

>Now at the same time, if I was to decide on a preference between the two, it'd be female. Virtually all of the main heroes in Star Wars are males. I think it's good to have strong, independent, and leading female heroes in the series.

I reply: This point of view is quite reasonable. I would agree totally with it in principle. Thought out of loyalty to my personal aesthetic I wouldn't mind Revan or Jaden Korr being a girl(indeed now that I think of it I do think of Jaden as a girl even thought CANON says she is a he) and the Exile a dude.

Of course if you really wish to get esoteric. If one postulates the Lucas Universe it part of a Multiverse (& the Infinities Series might lend us to think so) then in some Lucas Universe somewhere the Exile is a male. OTOH if here in the real world we believe some physicists them there might be a real other Universe somewhere where Lucas Inc made the Exile Male. Now that is Zen.

Of course in the end it doesn't matter. Fanon exists so we may recast the Lucas world in our own image while still retaining the spirit and the form of Lucas. In my universe the Exile is Male & I choose to live there. Good luck and God Bless you in your universe and in the real world.

Or as the Poet said "May the Force Be With you".

PS. When I get around to it I will Blog a "response" to the Darthapedia's comic take down of more over zealous Male Jedi Fans who practice vandalism. That should be funny.

Also when I get the chance I will edit my article some more so it conforms to the Mannual of Style.

BTW Brandon if you could do me a solid? stop by the article and give me some feed back into how far it has come. see here

Thanks guy. Cheers.