Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, shown March 17 at a news conference in front of the Supreme Court, called Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer a "Wall Street yes-man." | Getty Warren: I'm Leia, not Vader

Elizabeth Warren says she sees herself more as Princess Leia than as Darth Vader.

The liberal Massachusetts senator made the distinction clear in a fundraising email this afternoon blasting Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer — the Missouri Republican who on Wednesday not only compared her to the evil Sith Lord in the "Star Wars" series, but also encouraged a room full of bankers visiting Washington to “find a way to neuter” her.


It's the latest escalation in Warren’s war against deregulating Wall Street.

In an email titled, "I won't be neutered," Warren said, "The Force is not strong" with Luetkemeyer, who went after her at an American Bankers Association conference Wednesday.

Warren said she identifies more with Leia, “a senator and Resistance general who, unlike the guys, is never even remotely tempted by the dark side.”

"Why would he go out of his way to say something so sexist and offensive?" Warren said. "Is he hostile to all women? Clueless? Afraid? And then I had a second thought: This is all about money."

Luetkemeyer is a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee. Warren said he's a "Wall Street yes-man" and that "trying to land the best zinger with my name is just one more way to earn chits and try to cash in big time with that audience."

"They can call me Darth Vader or Voldemort or the Wicked Witch of Massachusetts for all I care — but I won’t be neutered. I won’t be muzzled. And I won’t stop fighting to level the playing field for working families," she said.