I'll edit the post. I meant to check that fact before posting, but I forgot. Thank you, and definitely, yes. I'm trying to make a living at this blogging thing, if it's possible.
ETA: oh, and I completely understand loving a movie that fundamentally fails all feminist and/or anti-racist/classist analysis. But the movie has to be fun, and I found this movie just plain depressing and joyless and rah rah cowboy Jim. There were things I liked about it -- both Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana were excellent -- but Uhura was an independent unattached woman in the series, and by golly, that's the way I liked her. I attached a feminist subtext to that (a woman doesn't need a man) vs. a race subtext (black women are 'undesireable), so your mileage may vary.
Concerning women in the movie: http://community.livejournal.com/where_no_woman/53958.html This isn't at all enough -- they should be front and center, and as a friend of mine put it, the movie should not have given itself points for merely approaching to 1960's liberalism (and not even fully living up to that) -- but I was glad those ladies were there.
Concerning the movie being fun... well, de gustibus non disputandum. One of the things I've been enjoying about the fandom are indeed these "What-ifs"; it's a place where I can write Captain [Female Character] or Admiral [non-Western Name] and know people will notice and be pleased.
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Date: 2011-03-03 06:29 pm (UTC)ETA: oh, and I completely understand loving a movie that fundamentally fails all feminist and/or anti-racist/classist analysis. But the movie has to be fun, and I found this movie just plain depressing and joyless and rah rah cowboy Jim. There were things I liked about it -- both Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana were excellent -- but Uhura was an independent unattached woman in the series, and by golly, that's the way I liked her. I attached a feminist subtext to that (a woman doesn't need a man) vs. a race subtext (black women are 'undesireable), so your mileage may vary.
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Date: 2011-03-03 07:30 pm (UTC)Concerning Uhura and Spock,
http://rawles.livejournal.com/340736.html
http://rawles.livejournal.com/330851.html
Concerning women in the movie:
http://community.livejournal.com/where_no_woman/53958.html
This isn't at all enough -- they should be front and center, and as a friend of mine put it, the movie should not have given itself points for merely approaching to 1960's liberalism (and not even fully living up to that) -- but I was glad those ladies were there.
Concerning the movie being fun... well, de gustibus non disputandum. One of the things I've been enjoying about the fandom are indeed these "What-ifs"; it's a place where I can write Captain [Female Character] or Admiral [non-Western Name] and know people will notice and be pleased.