I just spent the morning at my brother’s soccer game. Unlike everyone else there who is screaming at the players and coaches, my head was buried into From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe. During half time the coaches had a full on brawl because each coach thought that the other team was playing unfairly. This reminded me of the STARTRECK episode that I saw on the first day of school, and it got me thinking.
Luke, my STAC teacher, told us that the lead startreck actor thought that his one-sex community love interest should have been a male. I disagree completely. Society is accustomed to the male and female relationship, so almost unknowingly the quote on quote ‘normal’ human brain wants the two to be together. The female perspective made it that I wanted them to be together which made me disappointed when it didn’t work out. If the actor playing the one-sex race was male it would have put a different spin on the episode. To most people see two men together, especially in the 1970’s when this episode premiered, was not looked at kindly. Then when the ‘man’ was getting cured I would think of it as okay, and that would make the episode anti-homosexual.
Everyone has their own mind set. The only way my mind set is wrong is if I do not protect it.
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