• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    they focused too much on his they/them nonsense.

    *their, not his

    And it was a scene of, what, 30 seconds where they stated what their pronouns were, then it was never mentioned again? How is that focusing too much on it?

    You’re not suppose to mention it.

    Unless everyone’s a mind reader, nobody’s going to know what a person’s pronouns are unless they tell them. They did, and that was that.

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      9 months ago

      It was several scenes. Mostly between the doctor and Stamets. More than “30 seconds”.

      No other character stated their pronouns, so how am I supposed to know everyone elses? The same way people figured it out since day 1. And here’s an easy way for us to know. Other characters can call him by it, and then we’ll know. Not everything has to be outright stated on camera for the audience to figure it out.

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        9 months ago

        I’m only aware of this scene. What others are there? Stamets misgenders them at 0:09 and they’re done with the scene around 0:48, so you’re right, it was about 40 whole seconds.

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          9 months ago

          I am frequently just… astonished to be honest, how often it’s repeated that it was a “major plot arc” or “multiple scenes” when it was, (as you pointed out) so brief. And it doesn’t ever seem to sway anyone’s opinion when this fact is pointed out!

          “They made an entire episode about nonbinary people”

          “The one in TNG?”

          “No, Discovery”

          “There was a single 40 second scene”

          “Are you trolling? It was shoved down our throats”

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            9 months ago

            Its funny because while we gloss over it today, this is how shocking uhara just being on the bridge was to people, or the shatner kiss. Like people were still being murdered and lynched for interracial relationships and even in northern cities we had red lining and racial violence. The big trans arc is a minor scene. With a person who also literally and unsubtly has memories of being MULTIPLE sexes and genders.

            Its so shocking for some people it stands out. Even if they arent overt bigots being exposed to it rubs them a certain way.

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              9 months ago

              I kind of get where some people are coming from if they’re (in good faith) saying that by that time Adira should just be matter-of-factly correctly Stamets rather than acting uncomfortable, but here’s the thing: the show might take place in the future, but it was made in 2020. Star Trek has always addressed the social issues of its time in a way that plays to the audience.

              And hell, plenty of people are uncomfortable correcting others in general, regardless of the reason.

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          9 months ago

          You know you’re never going to get any hard evidence other than surface-level stuff that they can get from their bigot blogs, because bigots hate actually engaging with media.

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          9 months ago

          For the sake of argument (and I don’t care enough to go digging), let’s say it was no more than 40 seconds, but you didn’t respond to the rest of my comment so I’ll assume you’re in agreement.

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            9 months ago

            Maybe they didn’t respond to the second half of the comment because, even though they had just corrected your pronoun misuse, you did it right away again.

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            9 months ago

            You assume incorrectly. So in conclusion, a 40 second scene is the show “focusing too much on they/them ‘nonsense,’” since it’s the only part that addresses it.