I Own You, Wookiee!
There’s a new commercial for Star Wars DVDs. Why these are different from earlier Star Wars DVDs, I don’t know. And I don’t care. What I want to comment on is the little girl who says, all cutely of course, that she wants a Wookiee as a pet.
Excuse me? A pet? Wookiees are a sentient race with their own civilization and culture. You cannot have one as a pet!
Where did this idea come from? Did this girl get the impression that Chewbacca was Han Solo’s pet? Or perhaps a step higher, slave? But he can’t be a slave, because he’s too cute and you can’t understand what he’s saying. So clearly he’s a pet instead. Not even a slave.
Is this the reaction our species is going to have when we make contact with aliens? If they’re cute, then they’ll be our pets?
At least the girl had the brains to pick the Wookiee over the Ewok. If you’re going to have a pet, might as well have one that can beat up your big brother for you.
More, what’s it say that they let this part into the commercial? Why did no one contradict this little girl’s idea of keeping a sentient being as a pet?
