Improve Starwars data set gender and sex classifications of characters

[MeganBeckett]

Closes issue #4456

The current starwars data set contains confusing/offensive use of gender.

These issues were resolved with the following changes made, after research and consultation on the issues thread:

New columns

• Renamed the previous gender column to sex as this actually describes the character's biological sex.
• Added in another column gender again, with modifications referenced below.
• Changed the term "hermaphrodite" to "hermaphroditic" where referenced in the sex column as this is more technically correct.

Species

• Added in the species of character "R4-P17" as "Droid" as value was missing and can then further classify sex, as described below.

Sex and genders of Droids

• In the current data set, the gender (now sex) of the characters with species type == "Droid" was either none or NA. For consistency, as Droids are robots and do not have a biological sex as determined by sex organs or gonads, the sex was changed to "none" for all Droid characters in the data set.
• However, the Droids do have a gender, which is determined from how they were programmed, as described here: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Sexes

"Droids, being machines, lacked a biological sex. However, in order to appear more lifelike, many droids were programmed with a masculine" or "feminine" personality. Thus, even mechanical beings were designated either he or she."

Therefore, I explicitly added the genders of the droids in the dataset to match how they were programmed and their gender identities in the films, as follows

• C-3PO = male programmed - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/C-3PO
• BB8 = male programmed - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/BB-8
• IG-88 = male programmed - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/IG-88
• R5-D4 = male programmed - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/R5-D4
• R2-D2 = male programmed - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/R2-D2
• R4-P17 = female programmed - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/R4-P17

Jabba

Explicitly set the gender of Jabba, whose sex is "hermaphroditic", as described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabba_the_Hutt

"Designed by visual effects artist Phil Tippett, Jabba the Hutt was inspired by the anatomy of several animal species. His body structure and reproductive processes were based on annelid worms, hairless animals that have no skeleton and are hermaphroditic.

• Jabba identifies as male: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Jabba_Desilijic_Tiure

Gender descriptions

• Modify the current classifications of gender as "male" or "female" to "masculine" and "feminine" respectively.

Documentation

• updated the documentation for the starwars data set to describe the gender and sex columns

[romainfrancois]

Thanks @MeganBeckett Can you also modify the data-raw/starwars.R so that it generates the same tibble ? This way we would more easily be able to update when swapi gets updated with e.g. newer movies (#3983, phalt/swapi#108)

[hadley]

Thanks for all your hard work on this @MeganBeckett! I converted your hand entered data into code so it's easier for us to reapply in the future.