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kailthia:fuckyeahsources: prokopetz: vaspider: geekygothgirl: ellidfics: chandri: jacquez45: ameliacgormley: livelongandgetiton: ormondhsacker: Am I the only one that’s a just a tiny bit pissed off that this is still an issue? The Original Series wasn’t even in the general VICINITY of fucking around yo How many shows these days would do this, and do it this way? These days, it would be all, “Ohh, we have to be sensitive and show the nuances of each side” and try not to make either side seem wrong. It wouldn’t be clearly spelled out, “pro-choice is right, if you’re against it you’re the bad guys.” Jim Kirk is not here for your anti-birth-control, anti-choice, pro-death-penalty BS James Tiberius Kirk was written and portrayed as a feminist and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. Yep. That episode is exactly what you think it is: pro-birth control, pro-population control, pro-choice, and pro-women’s right to choose. And yes, Kirk, the supposed playboy of the spaceways, is in favor of all of the above. It was written and aired in 1969. It probably couldn’t air today. THINK ABOUT THAT. Also LMAO at all the sad whiny geek boys who are like “I miss the GOOD OLD DAYS of SCI-FI when it wasn’t all about SOCIAL ISSUES and instead it was just about MEN HAVING FUN IN SPACE. Like Star Trek! Star Trek wouldn’t put up with all this SOCIAL JUSTICE FEMINISM IN SCI FI bullshit!” And meanwhile I’m just over here like “…did you actually watch the show?” @judicialmistrangementorder It’s also important to bear in mind that the Original Series had a predominantly female fanbase, and during its initial run, was widely mocked and dismissed by mainstream (i.e., male) science fiction fans as being fake sci-fi for girls. It’s difficult to overstate the influence women had on the franchise in its early days; most of the early Star Trek conventions were organised by and for women, and indeed, those same organisers were primarily responsible for the massive letter-writing campaign that prevented the show from being cancelled after the 1968 season. Without that campaign, the episode pictured in this post would never have been made. The popular image of James Kirk as a sleazy womaniser is part of a conscious effort to erase that history and render the franchise’s roots palatable to the misogynistic geekboys of the modern SF/F fandom. For a summary of those points, see “Star Trek’s Underappreciated Feminist History” by Shannon Mizzi, which draws from Patricia Vettel-Becker’s “Space and the Single Girl: Star Trek, Aesthetics, and 1960s Femininity”. And a gentle reminder that TOS was a Desilu production, which its board of directors voted to cancel after the second pilot due to cost concerns, a vote that Chairman Lucille Ball overruled. There is no Star Trek without Lucille Ball. The writers of The Original Series shoved as much good stuff into their series as they could while making a smokescreen of other stuff to cover it up. For example:make the main cast phenomenally multicultural for it’s time while using white “all-American” guys like William Shatner as a front to make the show look more palatable to conservatives. The bridge crew included a Jewish actor, Leonard Nimoy, and a character who was Russian during the cold war. And notably, Nichelle Nicholls, a black woman, and George Takei, a Japanese-American, whose characters were treated with equal respect and dignity to the other characters. making the show deliberately racy (for the time period) so that conservative people would focus on the sexy bits instead of the very real and scathing political commentary going on in a lot of the episodesbeing aggressively feminist. Discussed above, but shown in lots of ways. like, the miniskirts? during the 60s, women were all for them because it showed that women could be feminine and professional. -- source link