"I can't get used to having a woman on the bridge"

[mb22]

Consider how much teenage girls and young women like Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, et al, were sexualized during the Bush years, for instance.

Not really interested in debating anything, but for the record, all these performers' 'sexualized' careers took off in 1999, two years before the GW Bush administration.

 

[Sci]

Not really interested in debating anything, but for the record, all these performers' 'sexualized' careers took off in 1999, two years before the GW Bush administration.

Under a conservative Democrat in the White House and a Republican Congress, yes.

 

[1001001]

Okay I think we're headed off-course here.

A throw away line from 56 years ago still inspires passion.

Weird.

 

[Commishsleer]

Okay I think we're headed off-course here.

A throw away line from 56 years ago still inspires passion.

Weird.

Thats what we're all about here.

But generally women go around today wearing short skirts, conservative dresses, skin-tight outfits, whatever and no-one raises an eyebrow if the outfit is appropriate for the situation.
If there were more women in TOS were doing what Number-One was doing - taking charge, kicking butts, taking names then we wouldn't care what they were wearing.
There were too many frightened/infatuated female yeomen compared to the Marta's, Number One's and female Romulan Commanders

 

[T'Bonz]

^ Yep. Product of its time.

And not all females found miniskirts "empowering." Constantly worrying about flashing your panties is *not* empowering, in my book - it was damned annoying.

Sign me, been there.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Headcanon: A "wuh-mann" is a specific kind of near-human alien that grows facial spines and dark hair, during their planets winter, which is what happened with Yeoman J-M- C'olt. Una completely misunderstood Pike when he used that expression, and he was vague in explaining it.

 

[Timo]

Or then it's a term for a more generic shape-shifter, and the range of C'olt, with that spikes thing and all, is greater than with Una, who can merely alter her hair color, rank and backstory.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Tenacity]

Una, who can merely alter her hair color, rank and backstory.

Also age only twenty-five years over the course of a century.