Hey so I’m a woman who is almost 40 and I love Lwaxana. I also have a son if that’s pertinent.
I think you’re managing to miss that she was a revolution in television. She was a woman, who was allowed to be this bombastic, sexual person, and while others found her annoying, it put Picard, a man, in the position of having to play nice to the advances of a forward woman.
It flipped what was the norm right on its head, and it didn’t shame Lwaxana, either. I adore the way Star Trek handled Lwaxana. She certainly was a lively, energetic, positive woman, even when she was much older than television likes to depict women now.
As a woman older than you, with a mother and aunts of Lwaxana’s age, I found it painfully misogynistic.
All the more so because Picard (and Roddenberry himself) were continually chasing after younger women and nothing was made of it.
I actually am reconciled to Lwaxana and love the much-reviled episode ‘Cost of Living’ but the amount of continuing ridicule and hate she gets from younger male fans drives home the misogyny.
Hey so I’m a woman who is almost 40 and I love Lwaxana. I also have a son if that’s pertinent.
I think you’re managing to miss that she was a revolution in television. She was a woman, who was allowed to be this bombastic, sexual person, and while others found her annoying, it put Picard, a man, in the position of having to play nice to the advances of a forward woman.
It flipped what was the norm right on its head, and it didn’t shame Lwaxana, either. I adore the way Star Trek handled Lwaxana. She certainly was a lively, energetic, positive woman, even when she was much older than television likes to depict women now.
As a woman older than you, with a mother and aunts of Lwaxana’s age, I found it painfully misogynistic.
All the more so because Picard (and Roddenberry himself) were continually chasing after younger women and nothing was made of it.
I actually am reconciled to Lwaxana and love the much-reviled episode ‘Cost of Living’ but the amount of continuing ridicule and hate she gets from younger male fans drives home the misogyny.
Meanwhile they’re all cool with Picard with Vash.