To be fair that’s basically the case for straight characters too. Hollywood is fine with normal-looking men but all women have to be supermodels to even get a role (with a few exceptions, of course)
Hollywood is fine with normal-looking men but all women have to be supermodels to even get a role
Some American pointed out they love watxwhing UK shows becase that’s not the case, they commemed that Vera (from the TV show) os made to look dishevelled for example.
A lot of cartoonists have pointed out that most alien races are drawn with the males looking completely alien, and the females looking like hot human women with some makeup.
As has been mentioned previously, the same network censors who would have lost their minds if Kirk kissed Uhura [much less Sulu] were fine with a white guy necking with a green hottie.
Back in The '60s, U.S. TV networks, particularly NBC, wouldn’t allow women to show their belly buttons, most famously affecting Jeannie on I Dream of Jeannie. In the original Star Trek episode “Mirror, Mirror”, Uhura’s mirror outfit included a bare midriff and her navel is visible in several shots. The producers achieved this simply by having someone take the Standards guy out to lunch and lowering the bottom half of her costume while he was gone. The shots with her bare navel were edited into the episodes and evidently no one caught it.
“If” isn’t the right word, since Kirk famously did kiss Uhura. But yes, the censors were against it. The scene was filmed both with and without the kiss, so the actors “accidentally” ruined every take that didn’t include it.
To be fair that’s basically the case for straight characters too. Hollywood is fine with normal-looking men but all women have to be supermodels to even get a role (with a few exceptions, of course)
Some American pointed out they love watxwhing UK shows becase that’s not the case, they commemed that Vera (from the TV show) os made to look dishevelled for example.
and for a while all the movie stars looked like Harvey Weinstein’s preferred type…
A lot of cartoonists have pointed out that most alien races are drawn with the males looking completely alien, and the females looking like hot human women with some makeup.
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Thanks. They have another one along the same lines.
I remember seeing a Tarzan satire where the hero finds a lost city in the middle of the jungle.
All the men look like apes and all the women are beautiful.
The heroes ask each other how this could be.
There’s a note at the bottom of the panel, 'It’s because it’s easier to draw monkeys than people, but more fun to draw beautiful women
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As has been mentioned previously, the same network censors who would have lost their minds if Kirk kissed Uhura [much less Sulu] were fine with a white guy necking with a green hottie.
Yep.
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All the Star Trek entries are hilarious:
“If” isn’t the right word, since Kirk famously did kiss Uhura. But yes, the censors were against it. The scene was filmed both with and without the kiss, so the actors “accidentally” ruined every take that didn’t include it.
I checked with an English major and they told me that “if” is perfectly cromulent.