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Comment on I love how SNW responded to this sexism by surrounding Pike with women

For real. Sometimes I wonder if I was around in the 60s if I’d hear more people bitch about her being a woman or her being black. It’s so fucking stupid. But way for humanity to ‘keep the tradition going’ I guess considering they’ve now moved it from cisgendered folks to transgendered folks.

woo. /s

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zepheriths@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I would like to (probably) answer for you. There is a news paper article from around the same time as TOS asking if men should spank their wife’s for misbehaving. Every man that was in the article said yes.

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- captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Unfortunately while that’s true, and this was an era when single women often couldn’t have a bank account, this era was also just mind bogglingly racist. Like “I understand that racism and hate don’t make sense but what the actual fuck is wrong with you” racist. Martin Luther King Jr was a Trekkie while being openly demonized for peaceful marches.
  
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  - zepheriths@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Fair enough, also Love v. Virginia was also in the courts at the same time as TOS. Frankly I don’t think it matters which was more pronounced at the time, because neither should exist. But that’s one of the pluses of TOS. It almost certainly played a role in changing such beliefs
    
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Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Sometimes I wonder if I was around in the 60s if I’d hear more people bitch about her being a woman or her being black.

Not really important in the broader context, but I think Pike was talking about Una here.

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- Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  He is.
  
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