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Am I the only one that’s a just a tiny bit pissed off that this is still an issue?
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The Original Series wasn’t even in the general VICINITY of fucking around yo
How many shows these days would do this, and do it this way? These days, it would be all, “Ohh, we have to be sensitive and show the nuances of each side” and try not to make either side seem wrong. It wouldn’t be clearly spelled out, “pro-choice is right, if you’re against it you’re the bad guys.”
Jim Kirk is not here for your anti-birth-control, anti-choice, pro-death-penalty BS
James Tiberius Kirk was written and portrayed as a feminist and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Yep. That episode is exactly what you think it is: pro-birth control, pro-population control, pro-choice, and pro-women’s right to choose. And yes, Kirk, the supposed playboy of the spaceways, is in favor of all of the above.
It was written and aired in 1969.
It probably couldn’t air today.
THINK ABOUT THAT.
Also LMAO at all the sad whiny geek boys who are like “I miss the GOOD OLD DAYS of SCI-FI when it wasn’t all about SOCIAL ISSUES and instead it was just about MEN HAVING FUN IN SPACE. Like Star Trek! Star Trek wouldn’t put up with all this SOCIAL JUSTICE FEMINISM IN SCI FI bullshit!” And meanwhile I’m just over here like “…did you actually watch the show?”
It’s also important to bear in mind that the Original Series had a predominantly female fanbase, and during its initial run, was widely mocked and dismissed by mainstream (i.e., male) science fiction fans as being fake sci-fi for girls. It’s difficult to overstate the influence women had on the franchise in its early days; most of the early Star Trek conventions were organised by and for women, and indeed, those same organisers were primarily responsible for the massive letter-writing campaign that prevented the show from being cancelled after the 1968 season. Without that campaign, the episode pictured in this post would never have been made.
The popular image of James Kirk as a sleazy womaniser is part of a conscious effort to erase that history and render the franchise’s roots palatable to the misogynistic geekboys of the modern SF/F fandom.
For a summary of those points, see “Star Trek’s Underappreciated Feminist History” by Shannon Mizzi, which draws from Patricia Vettel-Becker’s “Space and the Single Girl: Star Trek, Aesthetics, and 1960s Femininity”.
And a gentle reminder that TOS was a Desilu production, which its board of directors voted to cancel after the second pilot due to cost concerns, a vote that Chairman Lucille Ball overruled. There is no Star Trek without Lucille Ball.
Basically you have women to thank for Star Trek. Go suck on that, JJ Abrams.
Bringing this back because I recently saw a post from a dudebro complaining about how Star Trek has become all “PC and has an agenda” unlike in the “good old days”
so here is a clip from the “good old days” of Star Trek not having an agenda.
Proud Trekkie over here. TOS is the shit, yo. <3
Anyone who says Star Trek doesn’t have messages, agendas, morality plays, or any such things is either incompetent or-
…no, there is no other option. They’re just incompetent.
The Sci-fi Landscapes of Victorien Aubineau
Victorien Aubineau is a 24 year old illustrator, who also uses his Masters of Visual Communication to do web, graphic & motion design in Nantes, France. He creates these detailed sci-fi fantasy worlds in his free time.
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DUSTRIAL REPLICANT MONOCHROME T-SHIRT
2 sci-fi easter eggs in the design, do you see them?
OCP and Weyland - Yutani?
ALSO, how about you link to the actual product page? I can’t find this one on the website.
Initializing artist’s comments…
Whilst cleaning out our archived files, we have located some older graphic design art pieces made for practice and various exercises that have not been uploaded. In the upcoming days we will upload various old posters, created from a variety of photo-bashing our own drawings and materials with stock resources and added painting.
We may recreate this design idea in the future, as we are quite fond of it.
Lego x Mecha/Cyberpunk x Graphic Design/Typography
all photos found on pimpmybricks
If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.
Jane Espenson (from interview with Advocate.com)\
I dunno how many which ways this needs to be said
(via alienswithankhs)
And this is why I want more queer and trans ladies in my Sci fi okay
‘Cause in Sci Fi I can read stories where the world is not full of the same old bigoted bullshit I see every time I watch the news. In Sci Fi I can read stories where it’s a better world for queer and trans people
Where we don’t have to deal with the kind of crap we do in the one we’re stuck with right now…
(via thefingerfuckingfemalefury)
“If you can imagine dragons and zombies, you should be able to imagine equality.” (Jenn Northington)
Techno Mage 1 –sci-fi character concept by Ari Targownik
This is super relevant to my interests.
o-blivia
