Monday, October 20, 2014

Rayna Teaching Kirk Billiards

If you search "man teaching woman" on Google images, you get stock photos of men showing women how to play golf, shoot pool, and fire guns. If you change your query to "woman teaching man", the images don't change. And it's not because word order doesn't count on Google. It does---"man woman" brings up different images than "woman man".
There just aren't really images of women teaching men.


(A non-image search of "woman teaching man" brings up 1 Timothy 2:12 as the first result: "I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.")

That's why I love this scene from "Requiem for Methuselah", where Rayna helps Kirk set up his shot. Yes, she's technically an android, but Kirk doesn't know this at the time, and for all social purposes, she's a woman teaching a captain billiards. And he's into it.