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   From: rl3166pls@excite.com   
      
   Jim G. wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Exactly.  We want to see Alice Eve scantily clad because we LIKE her, so   
   misogyny is exactly the wrong word.   
      
   Misogyny:  hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women.   
      
   Maybe we want to see her scantily clad because we don't trust her??  (hidden   
   weapons)?   
      
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