posts on 7/25/2006 11:35:21 PM
I figured it was a cultural thing. Like Klingons (Save for the TOS era and Chang) wearing their hair so long, Bajorans and their earrings and Ferengi with those little cloth headgear on Ferengi. But lets look at the Vulcans. They are by nature a no-nonsense, pragmatic people. What need do they logically have for fancy hairdos? What good would fixing their hair up all fancy do them on a world with a hot, arid environment. And Vulcans generally don't cater to vanity. So practical, easy to maintain hairstyles are only... Logical
|
posts on 6/14/2006 11:30:10 PM
hotaru, i was beginning to think you weren't going to reply. teenie bopper sexual fantasy? hardly, i'm forty. i'm also asexual and have no fantasies about either gender. to me, sex is a distasteful physical act. i tried it several times. didn't like it. and i've also wondered why straight guys are so fascinated by lesbians. i mean what's in it for them? talk about illogical. as such, i reserve the right to mock both gays and breeders alike. about my earlier statement, several of the other threads were hinting toward lesbian activity involving hoshi and t'pol, and this thread was getting at that also, or at least it seemed so to me. i just wanted to address the issue and propose my little theory. and yes, it was mostly tongue in cheek. anyone who has watched star trek all their life, like i have, knows that vulcans do indeed have emotions, they merely supress them. but sex is not always an emotional act involving love or affection that can be surpressed. sometimes it's just plain animal lust that can't be supressed. and while it was mentioned in the "amok time" episode that vulcan males found the sexual act distasteful, it was never mentioned how the women felt about it. perhaps vulcan females have a higher sex drive than the males and crave intimacy more often than just once every seven years. and if their husbands are not interested where else would the females turn but to one another? of course, they could find a male in ponn farr, but that would involve the risk of pregnancy. and to the vulcans the honor of the family is everything, so is insuring that each child born is really the father's and not some stranger's who might inherit family lands and titles. sorry if this still doesn't make sense, but it's the best i can do. sometimes i have trouble getting my point across. take care.
|
posts on 6/14/2006 8:37:48 PM
They have butch hairdos because, they, uh, I dunno.
So why is there not a LOST message board here? Who do you contact to get new boards set up?
Or one for the 4400.
|
posts on 6/14/2006 1:11:19 PM
The key words here are "before marriage" regarding 19th century girls. And your post wasn't upsetting, just off into a tangent. And I was hoping you weren't being serious. A Vulcan would find your logic flawed... If Vulcan women have lesbian affairs WHILE they are married, they can't be considered faithful. Why would a species that is totally logical and supresses these types of emotions feel the need to have lesbian affairs, or affairs of any kind? Also, if Tpol had the physical capability to go through Pon farr with virus, that puts into question the whole idea whether Vulcan women have the capability to endure Pon farr.
A better answer to the question "why do Vulcan women have butch hairdos" would've been something like "because a species that values logic over vanity wouldn't put much effort into having the prettiest hairstyle" would've been better. Your answer is typical of a male teenie-bopper fantasy.
|
RAND'S FANTASTIC FANTASY
posts on 3/27/2006 9:58:01 PM
hi, hotaru. no, i'm not kidding about the lesbian affair suggestion. it is a little known fact that in 19th century new england lesbian affairs between young women were accepted as a means of keeping them away from young men before marriage. also, it is clearly stated in the original series episode "amock time" or however you spell amock, that only vulcan men must endure ponn farr every seventh year of their adult lives. it is cannon. and please try not to get so upset over these silly threads. remember, they're all in fun. take care.
|
hotaru
posts on 3/27/2006 12:46:52 AM
You're kidding right? I hope you were joking about the comment regarding Vulcan women staying faithful to their husbands by having lesbian AFFAIRS. (Affair is the key word here).
The butch hairdo comment is farfetched and stereotypical. It's just a television show, so who cares?
How do you know that only the men go through Pon farr in the series? It's not really clear in canon.
|
rand
posts on 1/27/2006 10:26:06 PM
i have a theory about this. since only vulcan males go into pon far, and and they then go another seven years before wanting to be with their wives again, it might be acceptable for vulcan women to practice lesbianisim in order to remain faithful to their husbands, and to make sure that any children born are his. of course that is unless vulcan woman simply don't like sex and just look upon it as their wifely duty and a necessity to keep the race going. take care.
|
Click here to post a message
|
|
