In a message dated 97-11-12 12:24:06 EST, Maryelizabeth Hart wrote:
> >Barbara Benesch
> >BJBenesch@aol.com commented:
>
> >Anyway, my real reason for replying to this is that I too am bothered by
> the
> >idea of a Borg with breasts. My major complaint with the "Generations"
> movie
> >was the so-called Borg Queen (why was it the first obviously female Borg
we
> >saw was not only evil, but overtly sexual?). Not only was the face of
one
> of
> >the original Borg largely untouched, but for some reason was also
> interested
> >in using sex to manipulate others!?
> >
> >(Why is it that in movies in the last few years, the "evil" women are
> always
> >trying to use sex to capture the bad guy, or are [within the world of the
> >movie] sexual deviants? I know it's happened before, but has it really
> >started up again in the last few years, or has it been going steady all
> along
> >and I've just been slow to notice? Wait, that's a rant for another time,
so
> I
> >guess that's my cue to finish this up.)
> >
>
> Barbara:
>
> can you cite some specifics? Guess I'm just as glad to have been missing
> many movies since the arrival of my 3 year old.
>
>
> Maryelizabeth
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Well, the first two that come to mind are such feminist "gems" as _Goldeneye_
(the most recent James Bond movie) and _Die_Hard_3_. Hmm. I'm having a hard
time thinking of any others. Maybe it just seemed that way to me because I
saw both of those around the same time as I saw _First_Contact_. I'm going
to think about it more, so maybe it did just seem that way. (Oh, wait, there
*was* _Basic_Instinct_ [she was bisexual, after all, which Michael Douglas
sure seemed to consider deviant].) I'm going to think about this some more
and see if I can think of other examples, because I feel certain there are
some more out there, and if there aren't, then I'm going to have think a few
things through again.
Barbara Benesch
BJBenesch@aol.com
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