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Indeed. Some of us spend that extra time writing pithy comments on HN.

• AmVess 13y ago
  Roddenberry's Star Trek treated women in particular, and people in general, far better than he did in real life. Holding him up to be some fighter of equality is rather laughable, as was this slide show essay.
  • eksith 13y ago
    Eh? How would you judge a man who put the world's first scripted interracial kiss in a series during the 60's? The criticism wasn't about Roddenberry, but what's done to his work. A lot of fans know what kind of womanizer he was, I mean the guy had like 3-4 mistresses at a time. The vast majority of sexism in TOS was actually due to network execs who couldn't (wouldn't?) let certain things fly. This was also a time where a female lead was nearly unheard of and a black one more so. This was a man ahead of his time, whatever his faults.