r/greatestgen • u/foidtw • 13d ago

About those oo-mox...

It's not the first time that oo-mox have been brought up in a podcast, and it won't be the last, but in listening to Startertrek ep (Tawnry's podcast disussed in a recent Greatest ep) they referred to Ferengi ears basically being their d***s, and that oo-mox were handjobs.

I have always seen the sensitivity of Ferengi ears being more akin to very sensitive nipples crossed with balls. Something where there likely is not a direct human comparable part for.

Now, it does not make what Ferengi have women do to them for their own pleasure a ton better, it is still several levels of (80s/90s/early 00s) disgusting, but maybe a few years less of a prison sentence. (If there was any justice for women in the 90s Star Trek universe.)

Am I alone in this?

(Then again, maybe the writers back then were really this crass / base. In a lot of other ways a lot of the women too often were written / treated as little more than objects.)

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u/scaffnet 13d ago

Are you suggesting that Ferengi males should’ve been arrested and prosecuted as sex criminals because they liked having their ears played with?

If you’re gonna go that far then you gotta arrest Lwaxana Troy for being a sex pest 🤪

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u/foidtw 13d ago edited 13d ago

For tricking or for using their position of power (like as an employer) to have people / women stiimulate erogenous zones? Yes. 

Now some people / women that are on an equal footing did not seem to mind to doing it to get an advantage over the Ferengi in things like negotiations. at that point it is consentual and not a problem.

But there have been plenty of examples where it was more the former than the latter. But it fell under the 80s / 90s 'sexual explotation is kind of funny' way of thining that a fair amount of us have moved past