I know not everybody contemplates the messages found in their preferred media, but it’s hard to imagine someone who thinks like that finding anything to like about Star Trek.
It does seem that more than a few of this kind of people are quite tonedef. One example is a lot of them liking Rage Against the Machine but objecting when Tom Morello makes a political statement, as if their entire song catalog wasn’t political and literally raging against everything those conservatives and/or fascists hold dear.
but it’s hard to imagine someone who thinks like that finding anything to like about Star Trek.
For those folk, my guess is they cherry pick all the flaws and celebrate them, like the:
- hyper masculinity of the Klingons
- female suppression of the Ferengi
- meritocracy of deception of the Romulans
- female enslavement of the Orions
- authoritarian control of the Founders
- the brutality to the weak of the Cardassians
- biological forced sexual intercourse of the Vulcans
- stubborn and rude arguments of the Telorites
- racism of the Andorians
They take all the flaws introduced to each race and celebrate those as evidence of an ideal. These folks don’t realize that each race has a flaw in them to show their imperfection.
I think it’s much simpler than that. They watch it for the pew pew space battles and ignore the messaging.
same shit with nipples. but only female nipples
I think women should be free to show their nipples as much as they want. But I’m biased, because I want to see more of their nipples.
See statements like that are what make women uncomfortable even in countries where they are allowed to go top free. Don’t be so weird to strangers please.
