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   From: LyingBastard@whitehouse.gov   
      
   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 thought the spelling was 'wymyn'...?  It's difficult to keep up with   
   all the inanity of the left.   
      
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