She’s not in Medical blue, a caretaking, feminine role.
Those in Gold were either OFFICERS, NAVIGATORS, PILOTS, TACTICAL OFFICERS, or WEAPONS SPECIALISTS.
This is the Kirk everyone likes to forget.
Y’all, if you care about feminism, then you ought to care about the history and context of the miniskirt. The 60s were an era of rebellion against the 50s, and the skirts were part of it. They were literally cutting edge fashion, and a statement that women made against the more housewifey style of skirt from the decade before. It was Grace Lee Whitney herself who suggested to Roddenberry that they wear them, and Nichelle Nichols has said she never had a problem with them. They are a product of their time yes, but the women chose to wear them because of the context of that time.
Also some men in Starfleet ware miniskirts and dresses:
And some of the women wear pants:
They’re given the power of choice, regardless of gender or sex.
Shit ‘-’ None of this even clicked to me - Thats fucking glorious :D
Picard in that dress is so good. Look at him! He looks formal and serious and dignified! He looks like he’s captain of his ship and he’s got some important business to do. And he’s in a dress and tights. And it’s not a joke. It’s not a joke about a man in a dress! It’s just, you know, a man who is wearing a dress, and that’s normal and appropriate. It’s part of the uniform. It fits him. It’s totally unremarkable and that is so rare and I’m so happy.
I feel obligated to point out that this is Picard’s literal dress uniform (his Extra Special Fancy Uniform), and he hated his dress uniform? But he hated it because the collar was uncomfortable, not because it was A Dress. There’s zero commentary on how it’s A Dress and a lot of bitching about its lack of comfort.
all the “peer pressure is bad” education we give kids is practically useless because all it cares about is telling them that Drugs Are Evil rather than the much more useful lesson of ‘the person who responds to you saying you don’t drink by telling you they’ll find a way to get you to is also going to be shitty about all your other boundaries’.
god forbid you teach kids that their consent should be respected rather than about the inherent immorality of all the sinful actions of their peers
My brother in law recently became a veterinarian and it has really driven the point home as to how fucking bonkers veterinary medicine is. We don’t expect human physicians to really know much outside of their own specialty - a dentist, an otolaryngologist, and a maxillofacial surgeon are three totally different dudes. Meanwhile a veterinarian at a wildlife rehab center is doing orthopedic surgery on a hawk and then doing rounds on baby hedgehogs in the hedgehog NICU and administering antibiotics to a ratsnake. And he also knows how to perform surgical interventions on a cow! What the fuck! Those are all totally, wildly different kinds of animal!!
Shout out to veterinarians, they know Too Much.
I always think about that one post that was like “how come the surviving doctors in zombie apocalypse stories are always veterinarians” and the reply “because veterinarians make ‘not getting bitten by their patients’ a core skill”
reasons why I should never be allowed to direct a production of Hamlet
I am not qualified in any way
I would make Rosencrantz and Guildenstern be making out all the time. Like it would be the running gag. Every moment they were on stage they’d be making out and when one of them had a line they’d have to disentangle while all the other characters impatiently waited. Yes this includes them walking on or off stage.
Ophelia is a pastel goth
Polonius has to nod aggressively at everything Claudius or Gertrude ever says to the point where he looks like a bobble head. This is what gives him away behind the curtain, he’s nodding so hard Hamlet can see it
Hamlet is a fucking tease and almost gives Horatio a blowjob while convincing him to spy on Claudius during the play (trust me, the dialogue works for this, it’d be hilarious) But like it would be an intense moment while they’re hidden away in the “backstage” of the play that’s about to be put on and Hamlet is like literally on his knees begging for help in a sexy kind of way, yknow?
Surprise musical number during the intermission and if you have to pee that’s just too bad and you’ve missed it
The play actually starts with the last part of the last scene. yeah the one where everyone’s already dead and Fortinbras and Horatio are saying they need to haul the bodies up to show to people and tell the story of what happened here. So its like you, the audience, are the people of Denmark. You, the audience, witnessed a tragedy. And now, the characters are going to tell you the story of how things came to be this way. So actually the story never ends, its a cycle of people making bad decisions and dying and others trying to warn you about it but its too late because they’re already making those bad decisions again. And you, the audience, are complicit in this.
Babes, you had me at “not qualified” and I would pay a shocking amount of money to see this production!
why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?
i love student housing. i’m in the common room waiting for a friend and there’s some dude crying on the couch w a bunch of his friends around him and i can only hear bits and pieces but someone asked him “who gets the minecraft server if you guys break up?” and he started crying harder and a 3rd person reached over to smack the guy who asked it on the back of the head
