Stamets@startrek.website to Risa@startrek.websiteEnglish · 2 years agoUhura Appreciation Poststartrek.websiteimagemessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1697arrow-down118
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minus-squareCraigeryTheKid@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 years agoWhy would it have been censored?
minus-squareStormyfemme@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·2 years ago“Maiden” used to imply virginity and “fair” implies light, usually white, skin. Doesn’t take a leap to figure out why censors in the 60s would have found it objectionable to call attention to that.
minus-squareCraigeryTheKid@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 years agoI wasn’t even thinking about words like maiden having “deeper” meaning back then … Thanks!
minus-squareNorah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 years agoThat’s why the term “Old Maid” used to be such a biting insult as well.
minus-squaretias@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 years agoDoesn’t it still mean virgin? If not what does it mean? Non-native speaker here.
minus-squareVindictiveJudge@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 years agoNowadays ‘maiden’ can just mean ‘young woman’.
minus-squareStamets@startrek.websiteOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 years agoThe 60s were a very different time. Her talking about her virginity in any way would have been taboo to all hell.
Why would it have been censored?
“Maiden” used to imply virginity and “fair” implies light, usually white, skin. Doesn’t take a leap to figure out why censors in the 60s would have found it objectionable to call attention to that.
I wasn’t even thinking about words like maiden having “deeper” meaning back then … Thanks!
That’s why the term “Old Maid” used to be such a biting insult as well.
Doesn’t it still mean virgin? If not what does it mean? Non-native speaker here.
Nowadays ‘maiden’ can just mean ‘young woman’.
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Oooh! Now I get it!
The 60s were a very different time. Her talking about her virginity in any way would have been taboo to all hell.