Highly illogical, captain

What does the future hold for women's rights and the advancement of equality?  According to the makers of the most recent Star Trek film, not a whole hell of a lot.  If you aren't completely swept away by all the dazzle of the film or Captain Kirk's epic forehead, maybe it will occur to you that despite a decent amount of diversity in the sense of the extra-limbed and lime-green extraterrestial variety, the deck is still awfully y-chromosome heavy. 

Spoiler alert - I saw the film and I'm about to rain all over your parade:

The film starts out by setting up an alternate reality whereby Captain Nero travels back to the date of Captain Kirk's birth and kills Kirk's father, hence setting up Kirk to be the renegade child later seen speeding down a dirt road in Iowa back-country, a scene which, I'm convinced, was included in order to have a product placement for Nokia phone.  Switch scene and we see a young Mr. Spock being ridiculed by his Vulcan peers, only to have him lash out and bloody the nose of the offending bully.  If this doesn't get your eyes rolling, fastforward to how both Spock and Kirk enlist in Star Fleet. 

Oh, these two rapscallion youth! 

Mr. Spock could have gone to the academy, but in an act of defiance chooses to go into Star fleet, you can just feel the room chill as he tells them "live long and prosper" with an undeniably human "f-you" undertone. 

Kirk, meanwhile, is trying to mack on one young Lt. Ohura in the bar. Another product placement - two Budweiser Classics make up an order of other-worldly drinks oh, and a shot of Jack, please.    Ohura, while not interested in the future Captain's protruding forehead, none-the-less smiles and flirts while he slathers on the machismo.  Kirk quickly finds himself in a testosterone driven show of male dominance when other would-be starfleet officers rush to assert that Ohura is in fact their property - beat it, towny.  The resulting tussel ends in Captain Pike giving fatherly advice to young James T. about how his father blah, blah, blah.  Haven't I seen this scene in like *every* military film, ever?

Young Jim makes it to Starfleet where there are apparently only two ladies worth getting speaking lines, Ohura, and a La Perla clad green bimbo (Ohura's roommate).  Oh, Jim, something about your giant forehead just makes my green knees go weak.

From there, the action actually begins and let's face it, it was dazzling.  We had the classic lines "Jim, I'm a doctor not a physicist!" (Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy) "Live long and prosper" (Mr. "I don't have a first name" Spock), "I'm giving her all I've got, captain" (Scotty) and the classic nameless ensign who goes along with Mr. Sulu and Captain Kirk for a mission only to meet a tragic death and a few other goodies. 

After watching the film, I'm left with a few thoughts and questions, like "why was kirk such a perv?"  Really, in the original, Kirk was a renowned womanizer, but he didn't go around checking out everything that shimmied around in an impractically short skirt.  Within the first half of the film, he'd "accidentally" gotten to second base with Ohura who rather than smacking him back to last Thursday, just gasps.  Also, have film makers completely lost the concept of nuance and subtelty?  Was it absolutely necessary to reintroduce all of the classic characters in the first half of the film?  Couldn't we, the audience, been left with some possibility that there might be a future where Scotty, Bones, Ohura, Chekov, and Sulu eventually joined the crew?  Was it absolutely necessary that they all happen to be on the enterprise as their first ship out of the training academy?  Also, do women in the future not have pants?  Ok, so maybe they want to keep some of the stuff from the original show, like flip-phone-esque communicators, but I don't remember the bridge being quite so glaringly white.  While they were redesigning the deck couldn't they have included, just maybe, one or two extra ladies?    And why were all the bad guys all GUYS? 

In the future, can we expect that women only play trite and stereotypical roles of wives, mothers, damsels in distress and harlots?  Given the advances women have made over the past several decades since the original t.v. show, this total cliched future seems higly illogical.