"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
> At 04:05 AM 1/3/01 -0500, you wrote:
>> {snip} ST has always felt to me like
>> the Twentieth Century in futuristic drag, though. So that's not a great
>> surprise either. The bias isn't so much *against* homosexuality as it is
>> *toward* one (!) version of normative twentieth century western sexuality
>> -- a fairly conservative one, at that.
> I don't buy this at all........ there is an awful lot of sleeping around
> on Star Trek.
i would agree with that.
> Premarital sex is virtually accepted.
yup, or at least something that looks like it to us.
> Sleeping with co-workers is completely accepted.
it seems so. (aside from occasional inconsistent references to the
chain of command. at least with "Voyager" there is the rational that
the crew is cut off from other options.)
> All of these represent significant changes.
it depends on which circles you move in.
> Abortion is completely accepted.
huh? i can't even think of a Star Trek episode in which abortion is
even mentioned, much less accepted. do you have an example?
regards,
christopher
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