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This inspired by branwyn's fic K'diwa: A Steamy Novel of Interspecies Romance, by Jim Kirk and what Gaila said in the fic about how her people are portrayed in it got me thinking 'what if the story had been about her people?' and how much a popular fiction movie or book can change how people see that thing.
"That was horrible" Jim grimaces once the holo-flim is over, leading forward on the couch in his and Bones shared dorm room.
Bones shrugs, standing up to turn off the holo box and get something to drink "It wasn't great but I wouldn't call it horrible, kid."
"Your kidding?" Jim shakes his head, "Did you not see the way those men were treating those Orion girls? The main character frees them from the slavers and treats them like nothing but whores! Like they wanted to be sex slaves! Calling them names, ignoring them when they say anything that isn't sexual, not that they got many lines that were about wanting dick! Its awful!"
"Point" Bones admits, "But its not like that's all the movie was. That hover car chase at the end was great and father/son relationship with the two mains was pretty good too. Yes treating those girls like sluts wasn't all that fun to watch but its its not like its just this movie" he points out.
"Hmm, true Bones, I don't think I've ever seen a movie where a Orion was treated as anything but a sex object" he frowns, yes Orions can be very sexual beings but its not all they are.
"Since when do you care anyway?" Bones questions with a cup of juice in hand, "We watched a movie just two months ago with some pretty visual sex scenes with a Orion 'prostitute' and you didn't care" he pauses, "Well you did but if I remember you cared about how big her tits were."
Jim grimaces as the memory of his thoughts and comments from that movie night, "That was before my 3 weeks of dating Gaila and had those kind of thought beaten out of my head with her very personal and detailed rants about these kinds of stereotypes in movies." everywhere really, Jim knows people only see Orion woman one way as sexy green beauties with pheromones that make them seem even sexer, it doesn't matter that 98% of Orion woman and 47% of Orion men are in sex slavery and have been in it since before they could walk, people don't get that the pheromones they put out aren't an excuse to grope them as they walk past or to rape them because 'Orions always want it' "I wish people would forget the fucking stereotypes" he shakes his head.
"Agreed kid" Bones huffs heading towards his room, "But no body in the movie business is gonna stop showing sexy green chicks any time soon, not unless someone makes a movie that makes it unpopular, but I don't see that ever happening." with that he closes his door.
"Well maybe it should" Jim huffs getting up and heading to his own room.
There should be a movie with a badass Orion main character, Jim frowns moving to his bed with his PADD to get some homework done.
Something cool like an action hero or maybe one of those 20th/21st century superheroes...YES! That would be cool, an origin story thing, maybe she escapes slavery and ends up on Earth with a group like the league of assassins, learns how to be ninja and becomes a superhero protector of some city, maybe her day job would be something dead end like waitress or assistant were she's got a few good friends and a crappy boss who treats her like the stereotype and shows how that is a bad thing, while as a hero she fights some big bad who wants to destroy the Federation and other heroes be a pain in the ass to her cause they want her to use her pheromones like a superpower to get the bad guys to open up and she won't, cause she won't use her sexuality as a weapon. And of course no love interest, instead focus on the bonds of friendship.
He half smiles, that would be cool. Shame no one would ever make that movie
...but that doesn't mean he can't play with the idea himself for fun.
Jim moves out of his homework tab and into a new document and starts writing down character backgrounds and story ideas.
He doesn't get to sleep until 3am or any homework done, but he gets a lot written.
