Re:sexist Star Wars (Score 1)

Actually, if I remember correctly, one of the jedi masters on the coucil was a woman. Most of the others (with the exception of Mace/Samuel Jackson) are aliens, and at least technically of indeterminate gender - including Yoda, for that matter. It's really beside the point. Lucas has done a better job on this issue than he did in the original movies - it's not a complete 'white male' club with a woman in need of rescue (although the trade federation types could definitely have gone without the accent). Qui-Gon was the only other jedi in the film who _could_ have been female, keeping the characters from the original series intact. Lucas could have done a better job with the issue, but with a film targeted at 10-12 year old boys, I don't think he's really going for social commentary here. The trade federation accent was very close to, if not over, 'the line' - but in every other instance this movie isn't dissimilar from most action-adventure movies out there. If you think I'm looking too deeply into this, well, I'd say we both are :P.

p.s. - Doesn't Leia qualify as a female jedi? She's in training to become one, anyway.