Oh, for heaven's sake.

[lizbee]

Whenever I see a comment about how Amy looks like a prostitute in her short skirts, I find myself wondering if this person has ever seen (a) a prostitute or (b) a fashion-conscious girl. 

I mean, seriously.  I was going to post this to whoisms, but I couldn't think of any remark more coherent and thoughtful than, seriously?

Comments

[marymac]

I had that same cognitive dissonance with Uhura too. Girls wear short skirts. Grown women wear short skirts. Especially straight denim ones. Its the uniform of the under-forty female of a certain disposition (ie: likes short skirts).

These people are idiots. And possibly blind.

[lizbee]

Probably all this TOS I've been watching has warped my standards a little, because suddenly I'm all, "your skirt doesn't need built-in shorts to protect your modesty in times of alien attack? Yeah, it's long enough."

[marymac]

That. In fairness, I have one that only ever gets worn with heavy knitted tights becuase, um, well it is short even by my mum's standards. Which are low in the way only achieved by a woman who was not allowed minis as a kid in the 60s.

But, the boy enjoys it immensely and it looks awesome with my Middleman shirt, so my mother's opinion is moot.

[sqbr]

That's an insult to the many short-skirt-positive blind people :)

[marymac]

It was the only way I could imagine that anyone living on EARTH since 1965 could have not noticed. I apologise to the short-skirt-positive lind, long may their appreciation continue.

[lilacsigil]

I felt a bit differently about Uhura because that's a uniform and (in TOS) the men didn't have an equivalent (at least until Kirk got in a fight every five minutes and ripped his shirt off). I'm not so sure about the movie, because some women did seem to wear pants. Anyway. Amy isn't in the military or going to a Very Serious Job Interview - she's wearing everyday clothes.

[dancesontrains]

eeee your icon! I want that Barbie so much <3

Also, in the first few eps of TOS, there were ladies wearing trousers. My in-universe explanation for the sudden change is that Kirk time-travelled and fucked up something.

[fyrdrakken]

Aside from the movie, not only did the post-TOS Trek series show many female characters in pantsuit uniforms, but I've heard that TNG was making such an effort at gender-neutrality that in some scenes you could see men in the miniskirt uniforms in the background. I don't recall this personally, but it's been years since I've watched any TNG, and I saw it reported multiple times, so.

[lilacsigil]

I do recall it personally, and it was great! It was only in the early parts of the first season that we saw either gender in the miniskirts, and after that everyone wore the same.