Female Padawans in the Old Republic

I don't see how it would even be an issue. Even in our world, single fathers often raise their daughters alone. In all likelihood children of both genders have it explained to them long before they ever become padawans, and masters handle other issues as they come up.

 

What if you're out on a mission and suddenly you get your period? That would be a bit of a b*tch. What do they do then?




Fifty Four

 

Deal with it?

 

Suppose they could tear up a robe and use the pieces as towels and tampons...

 

Realistically, women delt with it for centuries before the invention of paper, cotton wadding, or blue water.
Aside from that, as has been pointed out, medication can prevent menstration as well. Perhaps even the Force can lead to a control over the body such that a female Jedi could induce a desired state.

Just a few things that occur off the top of my head. However, each species is different, so who knows what variation there would be.

 

True. But it would still be annoying. Isn't there some form of ultrasound that can calm the lining of the womb so it doesn't shed? Maybe the have something like that.

 

um...sorry to sound stupid, but what exactly is a padawan?

 

A Padawan is a Jedi Apprentice/Student. Ages can range from teens to adulthood I believe, once you are old enough to not be considered a youngling anymore and have been taken by a Knight or Masters to be trained.

 

Are you being serious? I cannot tell if you are joking, honestly believe this or what....

Anyway, as opposed to women in the army who get their period and are over in Iraq?

I know this may come as a shocker to some but its a biological function and we women have been dealing with it for thousands of years. Its no biggie and you're making it out to be more than it actually is.

Ya know I dont want to freak anyone out...but there maybe women around you today that had it!!!!!!!! I know it is shocking!!!

 

Never thought i'd see a thread about Menstration in the Star Wars Universe.


Best Thread Ever.

 

Yeah, that's a good point.

 

There probably WAS the occassional scandal and I imagine male/female pairings would have been rare. Not out of a codgy reactionary move by the Jedi order but one of practicality. A male/female teacher would have a more common frame of reference with a nubile apprentice. Now that said, a well-trained and tried and true master would be the being-of-light type beyond the crude flesh and towards... but the student is just learning and apprentice crushes on masters something they would be gently guided away from.

 

No offence, but this is silly.

I'm not so sure it's really all that silly to be speculating such things. We don't know everything about the Jedi Order and there certainly are somethings that are going to cause a person to wonder how their handled. So their going to want to open a thread to discuss it, get a general idea of what most folks may think.

 

A male/female teacher would have a more common frame of reference with a nubile apprentice. Now that said, a well-trained and tried and true master would be the being-of-light type beyond the crude flesh and towards... but the student is just learning and apprentice crushes on masters something they would be gently guided away from.

Actually, according to the OS, that's the reason Dooku's last padawan, Komari Vosa, wasn't allowed to take the trials - a "growing infatuation with her master".

That old dog!

 

I was being serious, yes. Being female, I think I'm authorised to state that periods are annoying. I was merely asking how people thought that Human female Jedi dealt with such natural things while on a mission.

Women dealing with periods throughout history doesn't really have any bearing on what I wanted to know, as in, did they have any medical means of halting them or altering their cycle?

I don't think I'm making it out to be more than it is at all, so I'm sorry if you got the impression that I'm ignorant, smirking, and immature, to me it's an interesting subject.

The last part of your comment was unneccessary and antagonistic - even if I was completely ignorant about what I was disscussing, I wouldn't tolerate someone blatantly mocking me for my opinions.


Fifty Four.

 

Well then if you are female you should know they arent that big of a deal. Bothersome at times..maybe but its not that big of a deal.

Furthermore, I'm sure they could stop it if they wanted. But why?

And it seemed as if everyone in this thread was making it more than it is. As if women never get their periods or its some strange mystical experience. Its only a period, the world doesnt end when you get it.

 

The only "woman issue" I see in Star Wars is Lucas's continual anti-female descrimination, and I don't give a kangaroo's mum otherwise.

Not a single female villain in his movies, past or present. Not one. All I see are endless males and even more males in his military and material. On the other smirk, there are some authors who overbalance their cast with women. It's unacceptable; and EU has followed the high priest's example by showing almost no female Dark Lords and just about no Sith Lords either.

The games are descriminatory too. There's almost not a single female alien in SW games, aside from Sith Lord's Geeda and ubiquitous Twi'leks. Or fat aliens, for the biomatter.

Greevy was a children's plaything, now that I've seen him onscreen. Something comical and overly frightful to look at. Could have at least made him female, or Dooku, and I'll bet a platypus' flippers that Plageuis is male too.

 

Having fun with the righteous indignation bit Ex? FoM thought so...

 

Wow, Ex used more Aust animal references than eggs in a enchidna's burrow.

About fat characters, we have more fat Rodians represented than most other species(besides Humans): Reelo, Greedo's uncle from SotE, and that one in Gamer 6. Twi'leks also have a number of obese representatives---their senator not the least.

And we do have a female Sith Lord: Darth Zannah, formerly Rain. Plus Traya, too.

But I do agree that Lucas doesn't really use female villians. He nixed the "Sith Witch" idea and didn't allow the proto-Ventress.

 

I don't give a womprat's <transmission interrupted>.

Males outnumber females in the military for good reason.

 

Males outnumber females in the military for good reason.

I have a female vetran on my WUL. There is nothing wrong with women in the military. Granted there are certain jobs they shouldn't have. But that doesn't change the fact that there is no reason why a woman cannot be on a bridge, in a cockpit or doing one of many jobs in the military.

Wait. Don't tell me you plan on quoting Newt Gingrich on "infections".

 

That was the point I just made.

 

There's almost not a single female alien in SW games, aside from Sith Lord's Geeda and ubiquitous Twi'leks. Or fat aliens, for the biomatter.

Well, there is Alora in Jedi Academy. Though she would fit your ubiquitous Twi'lek, with the possible exception of the fact that she's the second-in-command of the Cult of Ragnos (Tavion being the CiC of the cult) and you have to battle her twice. The Phantom Menace game has you run into numerous female Gungans in Otoh Gunga. And as for fat aliens, Reelo Baruk certainly wasn't your usual thin Rodian character.

 

I didn't include "Darth" Zannah because we don't see her as darth, only speculated/told. And while I commended KOTOR for female Tuskens and Wookiees, the imbalance is still sharp. But I know games are visual; and making things attractive is a blindspot and common.

I'm more converned with the movies, and the endless male villains. Perhaps there was a marketing reason underlyning it? Like having so many new ships and tanks and tweeps in ROTS, so you can generate additional merchandising sales.

 

Not a single female villain in his movies, past or present. Not one.

*cough* Zam Wessel.