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From: hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Space Seed (Double Standard?)
Message-ID: <548@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 19:38:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: oakhill.548
Posted: Fri Oct  4 19:38:10 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Oct-85 04:32:29 EDT
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Reply-To: hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales)
Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx
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In article <54@drutx.UUCP> eac@drutx.UUCP (CveticEA) writes:
>
>It occurred to me that everyone seems a little hard on Lieutenant
>Givers(sp?)  for being obviously attracted to Khan from the very beginning.
>In fact, Kirk really chews her out good in sickbay.  That scene is very
>interesting because after she leaves Bones says (not exactly) to Kirk:
>
>"You make a pretty fair psychiatrist"
>
>and Kirk replies:
>
>"Fair?"
>
>and walks out.
>
>Was Kirk implying he was better than fair, or did he realize that he too is
>very often influenced by an attraction to a member of the opposite sex?
>
>Betsy Cvetic
>ihnp4!drutx!eac

	Of course Kirk meant (perhaps somewhat tongue-in-cheek)that he
considered himself to be a very good psychiatrist.  It can't have
escaped your notice that the entire Star Trek series reflected the
attitudes of its time with reference to women.  Even though they are
included in the "space navy" of the future, women were almost uniformly
portrayed as being helpless and "feminine", especially when the chips
were down.  In fact, today, Jim Kirk would almost certainly be
classified as a male chauvinist.
-- 
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