And as for Shatner, I consider myself a Trekker so I admit I took perhaps a false familiarity with the good guy. No offense intended, I just felt like he was having some good fun in that movie. Shatner will always be the #1 captain of the Enterprise in my book! 

Asides from that, the other films mentioned occurred several years ago at least. (not that I can figure out how a guy yelling at a screen during  a Star Trek screening is analogous to actual violence against women portrayed on film..but I’ll play along). Surely Butler can think of something more recent. I can’t recall ever seeing a Star Trek movie and Texas Chainsaw Massacre all in one article, so that’s a novelty, I suppose.  (and incidentally, criticizing William Shatner?!? Never a wise idea, better hope this article doesn’t go viral with Star Trek fans for the wrong reasons). And why does Butler, a feminist, think it is appropriate to criticize the weight of a man she has never met? Is that a feminist acceptable thing to do, or does this sort of personal attack merely reinforce the stereotype of an angry, bitter feminist?

But I digress.

 Perhaps the gentleman in the theater was angry because Valaris was directly involved in the assasination plot of a male Klingon that caused Spock and Kirk (2 men) to be found guilty of murder and put on a desolate planet to for a murder they didn’t even commit. Yep, that might tick ’em off and have nothing to do with gender, either.

That being said, lets have a more “current” dialogue with common sense and no personal attacks masquerading as humor. Yes, some things are over the top, but cinema has come along way. I’ll never forget Geena Davis in First Kiss Goodbye, the Alien movies, just about ANY Michelle Rodriguez movie, and on and on.

We have a long way to go, but um, lets talk 2011 and leave poor Captain Kirk alone, shall we?