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   From: LyingBastard@whitehouse.gov   
      
   On Fri, 24 May 2013 13:18:52 -0400, Mason Barge    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Fri, 24 May 2013 07:24:20 -0700, anim8rFSK    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>In article <9ihsp8tqpq1cmn6646lt33lbmgoma6o5l7@4ax.com>,   
   >> Mason Barge  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Thu, 23 May 2013 08:04:55 -0700 (PDT), moviePig   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> >On May 23, 7:21 am, Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >>> >> 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.”   
   >>> >   
   >>> >Afaik, there's appreciable difference between misogyny and gratuitous   
   >>> >sex.   
   >>>   
   >>> No kidding.  It may be a very soft-core pr0n but who the hell calls   
   >>> men wanting to look at women's bodies "misogynistic"?   
   >>   
   >>Wimmin.   
   >   
   >I can remember a house at Smith that only allowed "wimmin" to enter.   
   >The occupants could not even own a male dog or cat.   
      
   Bitch Central, eh?   
      
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