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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com.invalid   
      
   Ubiquitous sent the following on 5/23/2013 6:21 AM:   
   > By John Horn   
   >   
   > It’s one of the strangest scenes in “Star Trek Into Darkness”: With no   
   > explanation or motivation, USS Enterprise visitor Carol (Alice Eve)   
   > strips down to her blue underwear, whereupon James T. Kirk (Chris Pine)   
   > sneaks a peek.   
   >   
   > Now, Damon Lindelof, who co-wrote the film’s screenplay, is apologizing   
   > for the gratuitous sequence — sort of.   
   >   
   > In an email interview with MTV, Lindelof was asked why the “Men in Black   
   > III” actress was obligated to show off her ripped body.   
   >   
   > “Why is Alice Eve in her underwear, gratuitously and unnecessarily,   
   > without any real effort made as to why in God's name she would undress in   
   > that circumstance? Well, there's a very good answer for that. But I'm not   
   > telling you what it is. Because... uh... MYSTERY?,” Lindelof wrote.   
   >   
   > He said there was a scene written for Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch) to   
   > remove his shirt, but “I don’t think it ever got shot. You know why?   
   > Because getting actors to take their clothes off is DEMEANING AND   
   > HORRIBLE AND...”   
   >   
   > Lindelof touted the MTV admission on Twitter, first saying, “I copped to   
   > the fact that we should have done a better job of not being gratuitous in   
   > our representation of a barely clothed actress,” and then joking, “We   
   > also had Kirk shirtless in underpants in both movies. Do not want to make   
   > light of something that some construe as mysogenistic.”   
   >   
   > He followed that post with an apology for misspelling misogynist and by   
   > writing, “What I'm saying is I hear you, I take responsibility and will   
   > be more mindful in the future.”   
      
   Damn, there's no shortage of oversensitive twits in the world, is there?   
      
   And in addition to not knowing (initially) how to *spell*   
   "misogynistic," Lindelof is also pretty much clueless of what it means.   
      
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