1. In an early episode of DS9, Sisko gets mad at Dax and says something like "If you were still a man..." with the implication that he'd hit her but for the fact that she's now in a female body. I'm kind of surprised that the idea that boys shouldn't hit girls would still be around in the 24th century. It's an old-fashioned idea - don't get me wrong, I appreciate it, it makes life more convenient for me, but it is old-fashioned - and I can't see it being around 400 years in the future. I know they can't really go around showing on TV Sisko hitting Dax (or, rather, Avery Brooks hitting Terry Farrell) but they could make it because he's her commanding officer or he could smack his fist on the desk and get all in her face or do something different.
2. The Ferengis are sometimes idly touch their own ears. But it's a sex act for someone else to stroke a Ferengi's ears. So when they touch their own ears, is that masturbatory?
3. There's an episode of TNG where an alien from a genderless planet comes to the realization that she is female, and is ostracized for it. It was supposed to be an allegory for homosexuality. But the flaw in the logic is that how can you have a gender that doesn't exist at all within your species, that can't even be defined or explained within your gender framework? That's would be like a human coming to the realization that they are in fact a cogenitor.
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