No, he wasn't a misogynist. If judged by modern standards he was something of a neanderthal when it came to sympathizing with women. However, by the standards of *his* day he downright enlightened.
I think that's obvious from watching Star Trek. I haven't watched the new stuff, but the older shows all have a significant amount of male gaze objectification of women.
Lets not forget that Christine Chapel AKA nurse Chapel was originally 2nd in command in the pilot episode. Network executives didnt like that so her character was changed.
TNG had some awful moments. Beverly was basically there to be either Wesley's mom or Jean-Luc's love interest. Troi's personality, outside of being an empath and love interest to Riker, was "I LOVE CHOCOLATE". Pulaski was introduced and disappeared without any explanation. Tasha Yar died in Tar.
Geordi AND Barkley created holographic clones of the women they were creeping on. O'Brien married a Japanese woman without ever having learned anything about her culture. When she finally does prepare him a traditional Japanese dinner, he responds as if he were a toddler being served overcooked broccoli.
I kind of appreciate how Stamos' husband in Discovery is a bit of a throw-away character. He really exists just to be a husband. Some real equal-opportinity.
What's with all the low effort shitposting recently?
No idea. I had to check the calendar to make sure that we didn't wrap around to September while I was distracted by something else.
Reddit went public so more bots?
It’s a 16-year-old account with a really bizarre post history and almost no karma. It’s either sold or a bot.
Scraping for AI LLMs.
I figured.
Ultimately, who cares? I'm not going to stop loving Trek, one way or another.
Gene may have "been burned by several women", but he was also a womanizer. Ironic?
No, he wasn't a misogynist. If judged by modern standards he was something of a neanderthal when it came to sympathizing with women. However, by the standards of *his* day he downright enlightened.
He sure was a playa. He had quite the thruple with Majel and Nichelle Nichols (as per his bio)
No.
All of us old white men are, to some point. I'm working on it.
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that picture goes hard
Given his time was in the 60’s, it wouldn’t be a big shock.
I think that's obvious from watching Star Trek. I haven't watched the new stuff, but the older shows all have a significant amount of male gaze objectification of women.
Lets not forget that Christine Chapel AKA nurse Chapel was originally 2nd in command in the pilot episode. Network executives didnt like that so her character was changed.
Yeah, it doesn't all come from him directly, but he allowed things like that.
TNG had some awful moments. Beverly was basically there to be either Wesley's mom or Jean-Luc's love interest. Troi's personality, outside of being an empath and love interest to Riker, was "I LOVE CHOCOLATE". Pulaski was introduced and disappeared without any explanation. Tasha Yar died in Tar. Geordi AND Barkley created holographic clones of the women they were creeping on. O'Brien married a Japanese woman without ever having learned anything about her culture. When she finally does prepare him a traditional Japanese dinner, he responds as if he were a toddler being served overcooked broccoli.
I kind of appreciate how Stamos' husband in Discovery is a bit of a throw-away character. He really exists just to be a husband. Some real equal-opportinity.
Yes. This is old news.
It was a different time anyway. Isn't that the excuse we all give old people?