Is it really that much more political than the original trilogy? Or were we just kids so didn't really understand underlying themes?
"A vehicle for feminist propaganda"
LOL
Yes it is.
You're apparently one of the naive ones, but i'll give it a go anyways...
You have a Mary Sue character that can:
Kick a group of men's asses
Fly the Millennium Falcon better than Han Solo (his own damn ship) and WITHOUT a co-pilot
Fix the Millennium Falcon even when Solo is confused why the damn ship aint working
Uses a jedi mind trick to get her out of captivity, her first time ever trying it.
Resists Kylo's mental probing, because well, she's Rey.
Uses a force grab for the first time and grabs the lightsaber and proceeds to kick Kylo's ass.
All this and she's only been involved in all this shyt for a few hours.
Not to mention, after Han dies, Leia is gonna ignore Chewie so she can hug Rey? She don't even know this bytch. You know how much shyt she been through with Chewie?
Then this bytch gonna knock Luke Skywalker, of all people, on his ass in a duel?
She's knows how to do everything and kicks everyone's asses and never takes an L. That's a Mary Sue.
Contrast this with Luke:
Gets knocked out by the sand people, needs Obi Wan to save him
Gets thrown across a bar in Mos Eisley, needs Obi Wan to save him
Gets dragged underwater by the dianoga monster in the trash compactor, needs the compactor to be turned on for the monster to let him go.
Needs Obi Wan to sacrifice himself to he can escaape
Uses Obi Wan's teachings to blow up the death star.
Then in Empire he gets knocked out by a snow yetti
Escapes the snow cave then collapses and needs Han Solo to save him
Trains with Yoda, then proceeds to get his ass kicked by Vader and get his arm cut off.
Do you see how Luke actually has to go through some shyt to advance? Compared to Rey who is overpowered right from the second she comes on screen.
Added to the fact you'd never see a female character get beaten up like a male character would, because writers know that women and their simps couldn't take seeing it, and would protest.
The Last Jedi was indeed a vehicle for feminism, with the Mary Sue Rey, Leia suddenly doing Mary Poppins shyt in space, that admiral purple hair bytch running the show, all the officers running the rebellion are women, the whole point of Rose's character was to emasculate Finn, and make him look like an incompetent (they needed someone to do it apparently, Rey wasn't there). Meanwhile they turn Luke into a bytch, make Poe look like a hot headed a$$hole, and continue the 1950's minstrel show with Finn.