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   From: jimgysin@geemail.com.invalid   
      
   WrongWayWade sent the following on 5/28/2013 2:06 PM:   
   > 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.   
      
   That's such a hateful thing for you to say, you hater.   
      
   > Misogyny:  hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women.   
   >   
   > Maybe we want to see her scantily clad because we don't trust her??  (hidden   
   > weapons)?   
      
   I'd mention that searching her would be fun, but then I'd be hating again.   
      
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   Jim G. | A fan of the good and the bad, but not the mediocre   
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