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Sexism in TOS: Worst Offender, or Progressive in Retrospect in Comparison?

I see a lot of folks claim that TOS was the most sexist of the Star Trek shows by a landslide -- and while I agree that it definitely suffered from the sexism of the times, I also have other perspectives to share to give some food for thought.

I am of course not insinuating that TOS isn't sexist -- it is, but I have to ask folks to consider the breadth and depth of Berman's sexism in his run and ask yourself: Was Gene Roddenberry genuinely more sexist in his storytelling and delivery than Rick Berman?

I'm not telling you to feel one way or the other, but all I ask is that you hear me out and consider some perspectives and make your own balanced assessments. Nobody is obligated to share my opinion, but it means a lot just to have folks hear it and see their thoughts on the subject. So here is what I was originally responding to:

Someone's response to this photo:

"Devil's advocate. This was a part of the popular form of cardio during the production time of TNG. Yes, it was heavily sexualised by men, but so is literally every other way women work out. Men have been caught taking pictures of women while trying to do dead lifts, running on tracks and working on sled machines. They post them online to share too. The fact is, there is no way a woman can be shown working out without it going there. And yeah,t hat includes the combat forms of workout they do in Star Trek. Just look at how Dax dresses when she spars with Worf. Yes, they're dating, but still, same goes when 7 does and any other female.

Aerobics routines like this were made dirty and cringy. This was what women wore then by and large. This is how the workout was done. We make it cringy."

My response to them:

"I respect your take, but I disagree on a few fronts.

The miniskirt was chosen by the TOS female cast, not the male cast, specifically requested by Grace LW and affirmed by Nichelle and Majel who would go on to vehemently defend the miniskirt over the years as comfortable and embraced by them.

Grace said it was comfortable and seen as a symbol of female sexual empowerment during the 60s and thought it would be a progressive garment (and turns out that it was, as it was later adapted and worn by male crew as a skant on TNG) -- FYI those were designed by a gay man and Gene approved them.

This was also supposed to be Spock's TMP outfit:

Literally lingerie.

We saw both Uhura (who saves Kirk in from Marlena Mirror Mirror) and Yeoman Landon (the first to initiate combat with a classic Kirk-esque kick to help the Captain being attacked in The Apple) carry out their combat training in their Starfleet uniforms without ever being made to change into any ridiculous workout gear.

In fact, I'd argue Jim Kirk was sexualized even more than the ladies of the week on the show and I saw his naked body more than anyone else's on a fairly regular basis. He wore red yoga tights while topless in Charlie X while the women wore full length gymnastic suits that covered their entire body. If anything, it went out of its way to avoid sexualizing women practicing fitness in those scenes and instead focused on Kirk.

Gene confessed that he asked to have Shatner filmed in suggestive/provocative ways to "give something to the ladies", so he -- as he said -- liked to "film him walking away" or have him conveniently busting out of his shirts in just about every episode as it were, because Shatner apparently had great assets. LOL

Gene made an effort to at least sexualize both if he was going to sexualize one, and he carried that attitude forward in wanting the m/m and f/f scenes in the background on Risa for TNG. He also insisted that the men and women wear skimpy outfits on THAT TNG planet. You know the one. LOL I mean the dudes even had on less than the women:

Gene also gave permission to K/S shippers to have their conventions back in the 70s when he was asked for permission. Gene and Nimoy felt with all the skimpy outfits they had the ladies wear, why not let the ladies and gay men have their fun, too? It's how we ended up with moments like this:

Yes, those are two people dressed up as Kirk and Spock's penises doing interpretive dance. Gene didn't give two damns. LOL

In my eyes, that was a very progressive take on Gene's part for the 60s. It was actually PARAMOUNT STUDIOS who had the big problem with K/S stories and vehemently tried to shut them down. Gene literally hired slash authors on his payroll and even had several slash stories/writers published in his official Star Trek books (The New Voyages & The New Voyages II).

I feel I saw Uhura and women in TOS engaged in more physical combat/altercations defending themselves that Troi or Bev were shown holding their own.

In fact, Kirk used to get furious when someone would "dress up" his female crew members without their consent (Trelane episode, Shore Leave episode) because like his male crew members, he wanted them to be treated professionally and to also have his male crew act professionally.

Berman brought some of his own personal biases into Star Trek that in some ways regressed it. While TOS had blatant sexism and was called on it time and again, that show was made in the 60s -- a solid 21 years before TNG. We as a modern audience understood why some of it was cringe/sexist due to the time period -- look at any other media coming out in the 60s and Star Trek was miles ahead of what other shows were doing.

Compare that to Berman who was churning sexist stuff out when women like Starbuck and Scully were simultaneously on screen on other programs airing, and we had already had Sigourney Weaver and other strong women in Holywood playing respectful roles.

In my eyes, there was no need of the sexism seen in TNG but especially VOY and ENT. There was no excuse for it when other shows were writing women far better and a number of those weren't even set in the future like Trek was, making it age even faster due to having those dated perspectives frequently highlighted.

In the Center Seat documentary as well as "The Fifty Year Mission" book you will find cast members, writers and other studio alumni who attest to this. Some discussions from "The Fifty Year Mission":

"First, Berman was supposed to have been a real sleaze ball . . . According to Terry Farrel, he would go on constantly about how her breasts weren't big enough, how she should do something about it, and how his secretary was a good example to follow as she had huge breasts. She even had to have fittings to get larger bras, and that was all done at his behest.

Later Berman and Braga developed a name for Jeri Ryan's character prior Seven of Nine. They originally called the character "perineum" which if you look it up it is the area between the anus and the scrotum. Later they floated the name "6 of 9". I mean, what does it tell you about where these two were coming from in the development of this character if they had names like that put forward in all seriousness for her?"

Gene Roddenberry also had some of his own more progressive ideas for TNG cut or watered down by Berman. Roddenberry agreed TNG should have homosexual relationships and representation at a con in the 80s and insisted on it in a meeting with his writers -- something Berman later would not honor. Gene wanted the AIDS episode, showing m/m and f/f in the Riza scenes -- these were some of Roddenberry's requests to include in TNG that Berman later stonewalled.

Berman's era was sadly dated by his own misogynist bias, IMO, to the point that it can somewhat hurt the shows he worked on through his cringe egoism and blatant disrespect toward his female cast.

There is a reason why Gene could keep female actresses working with him and Berman had a revolving door of women that he couldn't seem to keep working for him -- he was abhorrent to women, on and off set. Gene wasn't perfect at all, he had a lot of issues himself -- but Berman was a whole other level. Just look at what he did to poor Jolene Blalock, Marina Sirtis and his toxic commenting on her body weight which exacerbated her struggles with eating disorders, or how he treated and talked to Terry Farrell.

Anyway, just some food for thought. I'm not saying anyone is wrong regarding a take like that, but there are a variety of ways to look at this. Gene Roddenberry isn't a saint by any means, but it definitely bothers me how folks will tote the Berman era as if it were the lesser of two evils or the more progressive depiction of women when I felt there were far more concerning portrayals of women in his era with far less justification.

(P.S: I don't event want to go near the sheer amount of "creepy old dude/villain preys on innocent/naïve/scared young woman or little girl" stories there were in Berman's era, either. But that's a whole other can of worms I can write about in a part 2.)

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sefusneezed · 3 months

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Katrumarius gets turned into a pickle its pickle katrumarius funniest shit ive ever seen

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Silly bonus panel that i am too tired to colour (it is 3 am)

#oc #original character #myart #katrumarius #webcomic #warhammer40k #wh40k #ineptus mechanicus #pickle rick #archmagos von kuronar #admech #adeptus mechanicus #genetor oc #hes trying his best but his best isnt very good rip #tech priest

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andvenuscried · 4 days

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dilf!rick grimes with age gap

description box: rick knows it’s wrong, but he can’t keep his hands off you.

warnings: slight nsfw warning, mostly a drabble , prison!era

RICK THINKS IT’S SO CUTE actually, this little crush you have on him. it’s so obvious by the way you’re always looking for him when you enter a room, or the way you always giggle at his jokes—they’re rarely actually funny but you seem to think they are—and the way you always puff your chest a little when he’s there, as if you’re trying to get his attention.

and he lets you. lets you indulge your little fantasies. lets you follow him around. lets you cling to his arm.

he knows he probably should put an end to it—for god’s sake, you’re half his age! he could be your father! but you’re such a pretty, young thing; such an emotional and sensitive soul and so dependent on him, you’re as cute as a button and he just can’t bring himself to.

you’re a crybaby. so sweet. can’t get anything done without him, but rick secretly likes it, he likes the way you need him to do simple things for you like opening a bottle. he’ll flex his arms while he’s doing it and watch you almost drool over his arm muscles. it’s so adorable, really, he thinks.

or when you need help reaching something high in the shelf. he’ll grind up against you, hand on your waist, as he reaches up. he loves the way your breath hitches nervously and the way your frame almost disappears in comparison to his height.

sometimes you’ll even fake problems. you’re not even trying to open that box, you just straight up make your way to rick, demanding he opens this box for you. you think you’re so clever; that he doesn’t notice, but he does.

you make him feel like he’s young again. like he’s twenty years old and still desirable. rick knows you think otherwise, by god you’ve made that obvious. he could’ve taken you right there at the shelf and he knows you would’ve let him, would’ve let him do unspeakable things to your body, would’ve let him have you. but he didn’t. because he has a ring on his finger. because he has a son. because he has a daughter. and although he doesn’t have a wife anymore, he restricts himself from any kind of contact this way.

but right now, he somehow doesn’t seem to care, not when he has you like this—legs propped up over his shoulders, his name falling from your lips like a prayer, tears and runny mascara on your cheeks and marks all over your neck and chest.

he loves it when you’re like this. so unravelled. so messy. so pretty.

and he can’t help himself—he just has to have you.

#rick grimes drabble #rick grimes #rick grimes imagine #rick grimes smut #rick grimes x reader #rick grimes twd #the walking dead #twd smut #rick grimes the walking dead #rick smut #rick grimes x you #rick grimes x oc #rick grimes x y/n

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twdxtrevor · 2 months

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WHO gave him the right to look so damn FINE -

#andrew lincoln #twd #the walking dead #twddaily #dailytwd #twd gifs #rick twd #rick grimes twd #twd rick #rick grimes #rick grimes x oc #rick grimes imagine #rick grimes fanfiction #rick grimes x reader #rick grimes x you

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hollowbonez324 · 11 days

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ART DUMP!

Heeyyyyy!

Totally didn’t forget about this account…

Here’s some art I’ve done since the last post! I post a lot more on my Twitter (@HollowBonez_324), so feel free to check it out if you want!

#spooky month #spooky month art #spooky month fanart #spooky month bob #bob velseb spooky month #bob velseb #lila spooky month #spooky month lila #spooky month oc #spooky month rick #spooky month jack #spooky month radford #spooky month skid #spooky month pump #spooky month moloch #skid and pump #rick hedony

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donnyanne · 20 days

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the price of being so small, you get to see EVERYTHING up close. a blessing and a curse

#my art #ocs #i remember this was supposed to be a sketch but each one of the next shots i just spent more and more time on skjhsjhsj #bc im weakkkkkk and i love to colorrr uwu #g/t art #giant/tiny #g/t #isabella #rick

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marshall0w0 · 25 days

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#kevin spooky month #radford spooky month #rick hedony #rick spooky month #pink boom #moloch #spooky month #spooky month oc #spooky month fanart

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sorrelpaws · 7 months

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if i was going through the multiverse and i kept seeing these two everywhere i'd be like Whats going on here

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #morty smith #evil morty #evil rick #miami morty #miami rick #e208 #v37 #y4441 #morticia smith #AUUUGFYHJGHJDHHJHJFJPWF #e208 and v37&y4441 are both my oc duos

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happyshippingnoises · 3 months

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NEW OC..

Basically, extra sassy rick adopts traumatized morty and forces him to work alongside his universal side-gigs and patch-ups.

#grr im cringe #rick sanchez #rick and morty #r&m fanart #r&m #rick sanchez oc #rick and morty oc #c-169 #rick c-169 #fashion rick #fashion assistant morty #morty smith #pocket mortys #morty #rick and morty au #rick and morty art #rick and morty fanart #rick and morty fandom #oh yeah if that isnt clear he doesnt have his own morty. might make a beth or jerry and summer for him too #rick n morty #fashion rick is not ANY better he will use his family for financial benefit (if i do make them)#i also just kind of wanted to make a more.. effiminate rick? if that makes sense #c-137 totally has a shit ton of insults for c-169 from “oh theres rick joestar”to “70's eyestrain rick and his lipstick”to “Tumblrized rick”#c-169 is actually considered a pretty trashy rick version #im still indesisive over mortys design..its meant to be scenecore a little bit but it might be misleading to who he really is..#so i might change it #c-169 certainly uses his scientific knowledge to drag morty to whatever makes his perfume smell better or a makeup that could slowly gnaw at #some kind of population #rant #hyperfixation

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dummy-morty · 3 days

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at least use incognito, broh

#rick and morty #pocket mortys #rick sanchez #morty smith #storage rick #morticia smith #the morticia running away is my morty oc who works at the daycare #my art

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whoupmasturbuilding · 5 months

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this is probably soooo anatomically incorrect LMAO

i was trying my hand at a super contorted middle finger pose in hopes of making evil morty look as goofy as possible. I guess i sorta succeeded, cuz he.. definitely looks goofy!

But hey, the coloring is nice at least....

#rick and morty #rnm #r&m #evil morty #morty smith #oc

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mutiniir · 8 days

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Dont know if i posted them here but yea been shipping my boy Pablo with Rick cause i love seeing an unhinged high energy dumbass with a low energy airhead dumbass. Dumbasses in love 🥰

#epithet erased #epithet erased oc #rick shades #pablo diaz

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starshapedspider · 3 months

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