Alienation Of Women In The Orville

The Orville, episode three begins with the announcement of a baby girl. However, very quickly the issue of her gender being a female was brought to point as being a problem in their culture. Their culture was made up of all male species. Only one girl born out of seventy-five boys. The parents believed this would cause alienation to their daughter isolating her from those around her. Therefore, this could also fall into Gender Organization in which "advantages and disadvantages exploitation and control, action and emotion, meaning and identity, are patterned through and regarding the distinction between male and female" (Ryle, R. 2018 p.43). They stated that if she could live as a girl, she would be an incompetent species in their society. Which, to me would make her a target of …show more content…
Because the others did not believe it was appropriate for the parents to change her sex. They thought she should be allowed to know that she was born a girl and decide for herself if she wanted to change her gender. After everyone on the ship gave their opinions and tried convincing the parent they were wrong. Two of the men showed one of the parents the movie Frosty the Snowman and how Santa Clause used the red reindeer nose, as a positive trait. The movie got him to thinking that they would be wrong as the parents to change their baby's sex. Now, because of the one parent who was still not willing to agree upon not making her male. They would go to court and make a unanimous decision on if to modify the child's gender. However, this did not seem fair when the courtroom was full of men. During court, the man defending the parent wanting to change his daughter used gender inequality which is the process of saying that men and women are not equal. He portrayed gender bias by saying that she did not need to remain a woman because women were not as good as men on levels of biological, psychological, or