People who say bi erasure doesn’t happen need to realize Freddie Mercury is known as the most famous homosexual man when he identified himself as bisexual. If that’s not bi erasure I don’t even know.
Also PoC erasure, most people don’t know he was 100% Indian
Specifically he was Parsi. Also raised Zeroastrian.
Saying there is no life on other planets is like getting a cup full of sea water and saying there are no fish in the sea
I think SETI recently said that if the galaxy was an ocean. We have scanned about as much os a hot tub for signs of extra terrestrial intelligence. And that is of course assuming we are even using the right tools to detect any alien signals.
this analogy is really good on multiple levels because, sure, that cup of seawater might not have any fish in it, but it probably has hundreds if not THOUSANDS of different species of microscopic organisms but if all you’re looking for is fish you may think it’s empty of life
Due to the combination of his being really an examplary Jedi (whatever
one makes of that), sympathies/nepotism on the part of the elder
Councillors, and the fact that they needed him to have authority over
Anakin while he continues to babysit him on their behalf (it sounds ugly
put like that, but since Mace flat out confirms that Anakin never
gained his trust, it seems a logical conclusion for the
Anakin&Obi-wan team-up that happened after the former was raised to
the level of a knight)
I’ve
explained how the Jedi ranks/titles work in detail here,
if you are interest. To answer your question, yes, Obi-wan was knighted right
after killing Maul but there’s no such a thing as a “low rank”. Being knighted was a great honor, the dream of
all padawans. It also meant you are no longer an apprentice and could take all
your rights as a full Jedi.
Jedi Initiate: the
youngest members of the Jedi order. They achive their rank when they are
old enough for individual instruction (2 years old for humans).
Jedi Padawan: from adolescence (12 years old for humans) until you become a Knight or are reassigned to the Service Corps
Jedi Knight: If
you successfully pass your Trails.
Jedi Master: highest formal recognition one can achieve in the Jedi Order.
Jedi GrandMaster: is
a title bestowed upon the greatest of all Masters. Only one single Jedi
can be appointed Grand Master at any one time.
Most Jedi lived and died as knights. Only very few were ever given the
title of Master. Padawans called their teachers masters, but that was an
honorific, not their rank. In Obi-wan’s case, this is what happened:
TPM
Rank = Padawan
Honorific = Padawan
AOTC
Rank = Jedi Knight
Honorific = Jedi or Master (to Anakin, padawans and initiates).
TCW/ ROTS
Rank = Jedi Master.
Honorific = Master.
Obi-wan was knighted for killing Maul (proving his skill) and because
his master was dead and the council decided that instead of finding him a new
master, Obo-wan was ready to be a knighted (and eligible to train Anakin). Obi-wan,
as a Jedi Knight, trained his padawan Anakin Skywalker until after the Battle
of Geonosis. For his role in Geonosis and for successfully training Anakin, he
was rewarded the rank of Master and invited to join the High Council.
Obi-wan was obtained his rank of Knight and Master because he was a
really good Jedi (skilled + talented + obedient). He managed to train the
untrainable Anakin Skywalker despite everyone having no faith he could. He
killed a Sith Lord. He was involved in many battles, conflicts, diplomatic
missions, etc. when we talk about the Council’s nepotism and bias, we are not
saying Obi-wan didn’t deserve recognition. We are saying the Council’s method
of recognizing Jedi were arbitrary and biased against certain types of the Jedi
(females, independent thinkers and anyone they might consider “subversive”).
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