The only other male bridge officer I can remember off hand is Spock, right? What a massive drift. "Can't get used to it so therefore WOMEN EVERYWHERE"
Another reason to love SNW. As if one was needed.
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I would like to (probably) answer for you. There is a news paper article from around the same time as TOS asking if men should spank their wife's for misbehaving. Every man that was in the article said yes.
Unfortunately while that’s true, and this was an era when single women often couldn’t have a bank account, this era was also just mind bogglingly racist. Like “I understand that racism and hate don’t make sense but what the actual fuck is wrong with you” racist. Martin Luther King Jr was a Trekkie while being openly demonized for peaceful marches.
Fair enough, also Love v. Virginia was also in the courts at the same time as TOS. Frankly I don't think it matters which was more pronounced at the time, because neither should exist. But that's one of the pluses of TOS. It almost certainly played a role in changing such beliefs