• Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
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    I read that initial audiences thought she was mouthy and shouldnt try to act like a man… we’ve come a little ways

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        Sure. That someone is William Shatner: (From Wikipedia) William Shatner corroborated this in Star Trek Memories, and added that female viewers at test screenings hated the character as well.[11] Shatner noted that female viewers felt she was “pushy” and “annoying” and also thought that “Number One shouldn’t be trying so hard to fit in with the men.”[12]