I've never even heard of The Orville, but you're right, based on your synopsis this is a brilliant, complex, thoughtful storyline. Kudos to the writers room. Makes me wonder how many women are in the room. And thank you, I'm sure I'll be thinking about this all day.
I've never heard of it either. I will have to look up where to watch it. It is truly amazing the undertones, lessons, and social commentary that "hides" is science fiction, superhero stories, and some fantasy stories. If you, as a reader or watcher stay surface level you come away with a fun or interesting story, but if you pay closer attention you can notice the social messages being shared and supported. The work of the late, great Stan Lee is one such offering.
A Person doesn't have to go very far afield to experience all of this.
Point is, what people see as " normal" is still coercive. Straying farther away from what is considered " normal" makes it even more traumatic.
Feels like , "stay
in your lane" or you will make people uncomfortable.
Problem is the
"lane" is extremely narrow.
Men/legislators feel they have every right to decide what a girl/woman does/ does not do with their bodies/ lives.
66,615 pregnant rape victims had NO ACCESS to GYN doctors ( JAMA JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION).
The horror that these females have experienced is discounted. ( The victims of Trump/Epstein have been waiting for justice for over 40 years). The choice that they need to make is interfered with, without anyone taking responsibility or caring for these victims, birthing their babies, or 18 years of raising a rapist's child.
Rape is not considered enough of a crime to pursue perpetrators.
No support is given whatsoever from the people who make laws prohibiting the freedom to keep the child or not.
And then the SHAME. Rather than see these females as victims, they are subjected to intense disapproval, which increases the trauma of deciding what to do.
All of this is baked into " being a female", which immediately subjects the individual to approval/ disapproval as a
constant force to shape the person into what is expected behavior.
It can be subtle or overt, the female learns or is ostracized.
>Even after 56 years of a nonjudgemental marriage, with the "freedom" to be whatever I am, and being nearly 80 years old, I am still aware of an internal "check" that keeps my behavior within certain parameters.
I've never even heard of The Orville, but you're right, based on your synopsis this is a brilliant, complex, thoughtful storyline. Kudos to the writers room. Makes me wonder how many women are in the room. And thank you, I'm sure I'll be thinking about this all day.
If you like 20th century Star Trek I’d highly recommend it. It starts out a bit of a satire, but it really is some of the best sci-fi made recently.
I've never heard of it either. I will have to look up where to watch it. It is truly amazing the undertones, lessons, and social commentary that "hides" is science fiction, superhero stories, and some fantasy stories. If you, as a reader or watcher stay surface level you come away with a fun or interesting story, but if you pay closer attention you can notice the social messages being shared and supported. The work of the late, great Stan Lee is one such offering.
I really enjoyed The Orville, and the episodes about Topa were really well done. I hope more people watch the show in it’s entirety.
A Person doesn't have to go very far afield to experience all of this.
Point is, what people see as " normal" is still coercive. Straying farther away from what is considered " normal" makes it even more traumatic.
Feels like , "stay
in your lane" or you will make people uncomfortable.
Problem is the
"lane" is extremely narrow.
Men/legislators feel they have every right to decide what a girl/woman does/ does not do with their bodies/ lives.
66,615 pregnant rape victims had NO ACCESS to GYN doctors ( JAMA JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION).
The horror that these females have experienced is discounted. ( The victims of Trump/Epstein have been waiting for justice for over 40 years). The choice that they need to make is interfered with, without anyone taking responsibility or caring for these victims, birthing their babies, or 18 years of raising a rapist's child.
Rape is not considered enough of a crime to pursue perpetrators.
No support is given whatsoever from the people who make laws prohibiting the freedom to keep the child or not.
And then the SHAME. Rather than see these females as victims, they are subjected to intense disapproval, which increases the trauma of deciding what to do.
All of this is baked into " being a female", which immediately subjects the individual to approval/ disapproval as a
constant force to shape the person into what is expected behavior.
It can be subtle or overt, the female learns or is ostracized.
>Even after 56 years of a nonjudgemental marriage, with the "freedom" to be whatever I am, and being nearly 80 years old, I am still aware of an internal "check" that keeps my behavior within certain parameters.
Such a waste.
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