Melissa Hollingsworth <
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Melissa Hollingsworth <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>[email protected] wrote:
THE INSIDIOUS REALITY OF STARFLEET ACADEMY'S HALF JEM'HADAR:
Star Trek and Alex Kurtzman aren't just putting int a half Jem'Hadar into >>>>>Starfleet Academy to stir controversy of the character itself, but the >>>>>actress Gina Yashere is meant to subert culture. >>>>>https://youtu.be/RSwaTnxuvRk?si=joe_yYqXNjiWlPkM
According to Memory Alpha, there was a line of dialogue in the Deep
Space Nine episode "To the Death" that they are all males, but "male" is >>>a sexual characteristic. If the species cannot reproduce, then there are >>>no males.
Yes, the writer was stupid.
Well... they're masculine, so doesn't that make them male?
IMO, they have traits humans categorize as masculine. The word means "of
or relating to males" at its core, so it doesn't have much meaning out
of a sexed context.
I still don't agree. Human masculine characteristics -- ability to fight
and protect to be appealing to women -- still exist for the purpose of reproduction and successfully raising children, the literal goal of
raising children. As the Jem'Hadar cannot reproduce and do not raise
children, their fighting ability was in service to the Dominion and was
not a masculine characteristic.
Besides, there are plenty of examples in the animal kingdom in which
females may fight, especially to protect the young. Human male and
female characterists translate poorly onto other species.
I go back to my earlier observation that television writers are stupid.
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