ST Daisy Ridley (Rey) in the ST

Can someone say what the picture showed? I can't see it as I'm stuck at work for the next ten hours. If it's too offensive then just PM me.

 

So first Daisy gets hate (fully intended or not) and for standing up for herself she'll likely get told off for the actions of her fans.

This is why people are fleeing "social" media.

 

If this started over the picture I posted then please allow me to say that I was praising her modesty.

In today's world, women, and more specifically a\the woman's body, are objectified to the point that becomes diluted by having to be more and more 'seductive' and\or dress in a seductive manner.

I view modesty as being more attractive.

I praise Daisy and JJ for allowing the character 'Rey' to be modest as well as Daisy herself being modest outside the limelight. A TRUE ROLL MODEL.

I say this being the husband to a very beautiful and modest wife and the father of 2 beautiful daughters. They are and will be shown modesty by the example their mother sets. My wife's modesty comes of her own will.

I sincerely hope my daughters can view Daisy's modesty with admiration and view Daisy as a true roll model.

 

This is why I don't use ANY form of social media. Heck I barely text on the phone.

 

Someone said Rey doesn't represent real women because she's not curvy. So Daisy responded (pretty eloquently IMO), but forgot to censor the alleged troll's username and not they're both getting hate and it's basically a ****storm.

 

This is the only forum I use.

No Facebook, No Twitter, No Instagram for me.

I do use Linked-In however, but only for professional reasons.

 

Yikes! That doesn't sound good. Well, Daisy is new to life of being in the public eye, so hopefully she sends a nice apology to this girl. She should do it through a DM, no need to make it public.

 

It was just a picture of Rey with a speech bubble that says "I can't believe the unrealistic expectations I'm setting for young girls. Who cast me anyway? Don't they know real women have curves?"

It's stupid, yes, and Daisy was right to call out the message of it. But I honestly don't think the girl who was publicly shamed was a good example of a "hater". I only looked at her account quickly but she seemed to be just a harmless Star Wars fan - she was reposting lots of pictures of Rey, Obi-Wan, Chewbacca. No hatred in sight. If it's true that she's a mentally handicapped girl who doesn't even speak English and reposted the picture without knowing what the speech bubble was saying, and she just got hounded off Instagram by Daisy's fans (the girl has deleted her account), then that's awful.

 

Wilcatberry I follow a few people on Instagram, but I don't have an account myself. BTW, Daisy is one of these people.

 

It was not your picture, same image but with a speech bubble.

 

Okie Dokie Budro. Thanks for clarifying, I really appreciate it Turnip.

 

I've seen the film five times now and I've come to the conclusion that the single best part of the film is Ridley's performance of her character Rey. Everyone is fine in the film. The story's the story. It has strengths and weaknesses (and I'd argue more strengths than weaknesses), but the character of Rey and Ridley's performance is truly the centerpiece of the whole film. I could see the film being much weaker if Rey had not been played by Ridley or somehow written differently. The filmmakers nailed the single most important aspect of the film - the character Rey.

 

Same here. I only have a Facebook account, but I don't really use it. I just look sometimes at the Star Wars Facebook page, and guess what I see there?

 

A couple things:

I glanced at the account and none of the images had text bubbles prior to the Rey picture. So why start now, and with an image with text you (supposedly) can't read? Secondly, the user posted at least one reply in pretty good English, so the idea that he/she didn't understand the intent of their own post is less credible to me.

I'm not saying 100% they're a troll, but there's some odd choices made here that don't seem so innocent.

 

Here's what I don't get, WHAT about Daisy's figure/physical appearance is "setting unrealistic expectations?" I mean she's definitely attractive, but she's not "supermodel looking." She's not overly tall, she doesn't have ridiculously outsized other physical features, etc. So what it is? The only thing that I can think of is that she's really tone and fit, but that's because she went through months or workouts/physical fitness training/dieting in order to prepare for the role (which is a physical role). And normal people CAN do all of that. Heck my younger brother works out/diets for his college sports programs and he's noticeably toned and muscular.

 

Well, in the same vein, why post hundreds of perfectly innocent pictures and then one snarky picture? That doesn't strike me as effective trolling. Perhaps she just reposted almost every picture of Rey she came across in the tags. She only had 47 followerrs so it's not like she had much outreach if she wanted to lecture people about body image issues. God knows how Daisy happened to come across the photo. Bad luck all around.

Look, I have no idea. I don't know the girl. But I give strangers the benefit of the doubt, just like I give Daisy the benefit of the doubt that she didn't mean to publicly shame the girl. I only saw one reply from that account before it was deleted, it was in rather poor English and said that the writer's daughter is mentally handicapped and she's a big fan of Rey and Daisy and she's very sorry for her mistake. I see no reason to be suspicious of some random Danish adolescent.

All in all, given how Instagram is full of absolutely vile comments, that girl seemed like a bizarre target for an outrage campaign. That's all.

 

That is what I don't get. She's sculpted like a dancer / gymnast, she's muscular lean not skinny and there is nothing wrong her.

 

The dangers of our times. I hope it doesn't cause Daisy to get off Instagram as well.

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BCvzkLGlE4L/

ETA:

I believe Daisy's initial reply said the user tagged her on the post.

 

Daisy's screenshot only showed Star Wars and The Force Awakens tags.

But however it was, I just Googled the girl's name and not only is she a special needs child, she looks really young. Like maybe 12. I think some kind of an apology is in order.

 

If she's that young she should not be on social media. This whole ****** situation shows it, parents need to be more responsible.

 

Preach!

 

Don't you have to be 13 to be on social media? OR is that just Facebook? Or did they change that?

 

I don't know it may differ in different countries? Even so in this day and age the potential for grooming and all that, kids need protection just as much for themselves as to others. I don't want to end up derailing the thread. So I will just stay shallow so to say because this is not the place to discuss social media. However, if you have a kid who has learning difficulties, they really ought to have more protection on the murky world of the internet. This debacle shows why.

 

Does it really matter if she's 12 or 13? Either way her social media presence seems to consist of posting pictures of cats and Star Wars characters, she appears to go to a special needs school, she posted one picture with a speech bubble she most likely didn't understand, and got attacked by hundreds of outraged commenters. She even tried to apologise for posting the picture, but obviously people would have none of it.

I'm seriously not hoping for any Daisy backlash because of this, but the girl was a harmless young fan who got unjustly attacked - surely I'm not the only one who thinks this is wrong?