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From: brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Space Seed (Double Standard?)
Message-ID: <296@utflis.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 15:46:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: utflis.296
Posted: Tue Oct  8 15:46:34 1985
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References: <54@drutx.UUCP> <548@oakhill.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown)
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Summary: 

In article <548@oakhill.UUCP> hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales) writes:
>	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.

True.  Which may be why most really *long-term* trek fans who are female
(which is a large percentage) are Spock-freaks under the skin and only
tolerate Kirk.  This might make an intersting poll, actually.