{"id":33296,"date":"2017-09-15T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33296"},"modified":"2017-09-04T10:01:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T14:01:59","slug":"qotd-the-sexist-tv-shows-of-the-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/15\/qotd-the-sexist-tv-shows-of-the-1960s\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The sexist TV shows of the 1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Speaking of a different world, there was one big barrier to entry into [the original <em>Star Trek<\/em>]: its ladies. I&#8217;m still not quite sure how to deal with the way women were treated in the show. I&#8217;ve found that when watching many movies or shows from the &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s, it&#8217;s incredibly hard to relate the characters \u2014 not just because plot pacing was slower and diction was different than it is on TV today, but because I&#8217;m almost guaranteed to be disappointed by the way the story treats women. Generally, one just has to accept that there is going to be out-and-out sexism in a lot of old movies and TV, and you can either toss out the whole thing or watch it from afar like you&#8217;re in a museum, analyzing an ancient culture.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Geuss, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/the-multiverse\/2015\/09\/i-watched-star-trek-the-original-series-in-order-and-so-can-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I watched <em>Star Trek: The Original Series<\/em> in order; you can too, Or: Filling the gaps in your cultural knowledge is equal parts boring and fun&#8221;, <em>Ars Technica<\/em><\/a>, 2015-09-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of a different world, there was one big barrier to entry into [the original Star Trek]: its ladies. I&#8217;m still not quite sure how to deal with the way women were treated in the show. I&#8217;ve found that when watching many movies or shows from the &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s, it&#8217;s incredibly hard to relate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,41,13],"tags":[311,303,223,1138,101],"class_list":["post-33296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-1960s","tag-sexism","tag-startrek","tag-thepastisaforeigncountry","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8F2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33297,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296\/revisions\/33297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}