From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: STNG episode about homosexuality
Date: 14 Sep 92 05:06:55 GMT
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In article <1992Sep13.152134.13824@wam.umd.edu> sfjr@wam.umd.edu (Steve Russell) writes:
<In article <1992Sep11.160930.14815@newstand.syr.edu> jfbrule@npac.syr.edu (J F Brule) writes:
<>In article <1992Sep10.161807.27749@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris) writes:
<>>ljf writes:
<>>
<>>> Nothing to do with feminism, but this is alt.feminism.  :)  The one
<>>> thing Roddenberry didn't seem open to is including lesbigay people in
<>>> the series.  I can understand that for the original, but not ST:TNG.
<>>
<>>They did do an episode on homosexuality.  It had some problems (IMO).
<>>A brief plot outline - there is a planet where having a gender identity
<>>is looked on as an illness...  
<>
<>Even more to the issue, there was an episode where Beverly falls in love 
<>with a (presumed) man. It turns out the male body is just a host, and when
<>it dies, it's "replaced" with a female body. The '"person" inside is still
<>very much in love with Beverly, who can't get past her homophobia to
<>have a relationship with hir.
<>
<>I thought =that= episode, in which Beverly was seen not as right in her
<>refusal, but limited, was quite well done...
<>
<> ~~~Jim
<
<Jim-
<
<     I could be wrong about this but I believe the suffix "phobia" means to
<have a "fear or loathing of:".  I also believe "loathing" means to have
<a strong distaste/hate.  I watched the same episode of STTNG where DR Crusher
<falls in love with the "sentient parasite".  At the end I didnt get the
<impression that she "hated or feared" her lover in the new female body.
<  My impression was she still loved the thing but found herself to be 
<heterosexual, which would make having a physical aspect to her relationship
<with the "parasite" imcompatiable with who she was.  I felt she looked at
<the possibilities with an open mind and parted as close friends.
<
<    I hate to nit pick, which I just did, but I felt the term homophobia
<was improper for the situation you described.
<
<Steve R


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