I was told by a checkout clerk at Target that someone grabbed a Black Series Slave Leia action figure off the shelf and complained to her about it. I think it had something to do with it not being "empowering" to girls. The main problem seems to be that this was an unpopular, overproduced figure which sat on the shelves for a year or more, giving the wrong people enough time to see it.

Good point on the name for the costume. I always insisted in the '90s it should be called Palace Dancer Leia, not Slave Leia. But I don't think that's the main issue. This is driven by the fresh wave of politically correct, censor-happy liberal feminism that's in vogue now. Going by their logic, all women should be covered up in burkas because then we could appreciate them for their minds only and not their bodies. This is one of the few times where the most liberal feminists and the most conservative religious people are in total agreement on an issue. Then you can add into the coalition the ugly and out-of-shape women who simply want to remove the beauty contest from the social competition entirely for purely self-serving reasons.

Nevertheless, like most liberalism, this is all based on the denial of basic human nature. We live and prosper as a species because we have very positive feelings about our bodies and our sexuality. If we censored and suppressed all of that like puritans, we would become a dead species. It's utterly ridiculous to be ashamed of a large part of who we are. It's shameful to cover up and deny that which we naturally find beautiful. Once again, the culture suffers because men are not active in defending their interests and their rights. Men as a group are not organized as a political force. We as men, along with all reasonable women, need to stick together and hold our ground against this irrational insanity.