most sexist episode

[Cakes488]

"It's just that I can't get used to having a woman on the bridge."

(On the other hand, "The Cage" probably had the strongest female character of all TOS.)

I haven't seen the original "The Cage" but the version of "The Menagerie" I saw recently on Netflix omitted Pike's line. I could swear I remember him saying that in a TV version years ago. I do like Number One, and it would have been nice if they had gone that direction with women throughout the entire series.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Mudd's Women. The entire premise is based on some very dated ideals for what women should be. It's one of those episodes that can't really be "fixed" by just changing some lines here and there. The whole thing is offensive.

It's just too bad that Mudd's women isn't all that dated when you consider the ideals that women are being forced to try to live up to today....it's actually actually gotten a lot worse!!!! I hope they'll be dated by the 23rd century....

Definitely "Turnabout Intruder."

Sorry ladies, you can be telephone operators (Uhura,) nurses (Chapel,) or secretaries (Rand,) but you can't be a Starship captain. Might start an intergalactic war if the Romulans or Klingons meet you at the wrong time of the month.

LOL ...but on a serious note it would be the best thing they could do is to put women in charge not only of Starships but pretty much everything...there would be a lot less war and cruelty in this world and universe!

 

[T'Bonz]

Who?

 

[Hofner]

Here's what I thought in "Turnabout Intruder" what Kirk meant when he said "If only...".

Kirk: If only when we were shacking up together, I had picked up my dirty clothes from the bedroom floor like she asked me to instead of her having to do it herself. If only I had put the toilet seat down like she asked me to a million times. If only I had done the dishes at least once in a while instead of her having to do it all the time. At least if only I'd taken the garbage out when she told me to we wouldn't have had that roach problem that finally drove her off the deep end and she attacked me with a cheese grater and had to be institutionalized for a while. Could it possibly have been my fault?

Kirk considers for 0.86 seconds: Nah.

Robert

 

[Plum]

^^^
Robert, dude, you should write for Mad Men.

 

[Count Zero]

Definitely "Turnabout Intruder."

Sorry ladies, you can be telephone operators (Uhura,) nurses (Chapel,) or secretaries (Rand,) but you can't be a Starship captain. Might start an intergalactic war if the Romulans or Klingons meet you at the wrong time of the month.

Well, at least that German SciFi-show gave us one of the strongest, coolest General's ever:

Lydia van Dyke, Chief of Earth's Battleship-fleet and Commander of the Hydra

And then screwed it all up with one of the most offensive sexist hours of television I've ever seen, the episode "Kampf um die Sonne".

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Here's what I thought in "Turnabout Intruder" what Kirk meant when he said "If only...".

Kirk: If only when we were shacking up together, I had picked up my dirty clothes from the bedroom floor like she asked me to instead of her having to do it herself. If only I had put the toilet seat down like she asked me to a million times. If only I had done the dishes at least once in a while instead of her having to do it all the time. At least if only I'd taken the garbage out when she told me to we wouldn't have had that roach problem that finally drove her off the deep end and she attacked me with a cheese grater and had to be institutionalized for a while. Could it possibly have been my fault?

Kirk considers for 0.86 seconds: Nah.

Robert

I do think I should add: Kirk's "if only" could be taken to mean "if only sexism weren't so pervasive and reflexive in our society that it drove her mad." I still think it's more likely what I said before, though.

 

[ST-One]

Definitely "Turnabout Intruder."

Sorry ladies, you can be telephone operators (Uhura,) nurses (Chapel,) or secretaries (Rand,) but you can't be a Starship captain. Might start an intergalactic war if the Romulans or Klingons meet you at the wrong time of the month.

Well, at least that German SciFi-show gave us one of the strongest, coolest General's ever:

Lydia van Dyke, Chief of Earth's Battleship-fleet and Commander of the Hydra

And then screwed it all up with one of the most offensive sexist hours of television I've ever seen, the episode "Kampf um die Sonne".

Damn you!!!

 

[Gotham Central]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned The Enemy Within, Rand is beaten and very nearly raped by the dark Kirk, yet everyone (including her) is more concerned about Kirk's feelings. Even she says that she really did not want to say anything. THAT is just awful.

On two seperate occasions we see women fall apart because they see visions of themselves as old. In several other episodes we see women used as sexual bargaining chips. Who can forget the infantile Eymorg in Spock's Brain.

I also think "That Which Survives" has a very dubious message. Throughout the episode Spock focuses on the intelligence of the female officer where as Kirk and McCoy express the idea that her beauty was more important.

Also...isn't there an episode where Kirk tells Spock that he was lucky to be from the only planet in the galaxy to have logical women?

 

[cooleddie74]

Agreed on "Shore Leave." That poor yeoman was just a helpless, whiny damsel giving backrubs for most of the episode.

 

[Carpe Occasio]

Who Mourns for Adonais - Skimpy costume, three way love thing, woman as property.

Space Seed - Funky female submission thing going on, woman as property again.

I still say "Who Mourns for Adonais" and "Space Seed" are very sexist. Women are treated as property in both, manipulated by multiple men. In "Space Seed" there's major male dominance with glimpses of abuse.

 

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