It's Starbuck's womb, we just live in it. Or something.
It's only been a few hours since the season finale of Battlestar Galactia, and I'm sure there's plenty more wank out there already, but this bit just struck me as quite funny.

Over in battlestar_blog, fanbitch posts a rant on the characterization of Starbuck in the last part of the episode.



So. Kara married Anders. How does that make you feel, fanbitch?

Instead of being all about kicking Cylon ass and being independent and strong, they castrated her and now she's being a good little wifey taking care of her sick hubby. Oh, how cute. Can I puke now?

Got it. You feel nauseated. But can you tell us more about the horror of this brave new world?

It's just the fact that IN THIS CASE, children and love and traditional femininity are being used as tools to tame the women. They are used as evidence of how docile these women have become. It doesn't matter if they still wield weaponry. They're weak in spirit because all their fire goes out when babies and boyfriends get involved.

Are there any parting ultimatums you'd like to offer? A farewell swansong, perhaps?

Sorry, Moore, but I'm not buying into it. You just killed off the best female character on TV. I'm not going to watch the pale substitute you're going to try to feed us now.


Several people try to point out to her that Kara and/or Anders could possibly have a job as police/security on the planed. She responds with the rather nonsensical Neither of them were in uniform. Security officers would have been, 24/7, in those circumstances.

PAJAMAS ARE A SIGN OF WEAKNESS! Changes of clothes are a symbol of patriarchal oppression, apparently.

Because at the moment we saw her she was in civies, this MUST mean that She had no career other than being married to Anders.

And let's not forget Cally, who only joined the fleet to pay for dental school. She's pregnant and married! Obviously this must be wanked about as well.
She was in ruffles, man. Ruffles.

She may as well have been barefoot and chained to a kitchen.

There are thousands of civilian women who could be brood mares. Why make her do it? Surely the colony needs her mechanical expertise more than it needs her uterus.

Accusations of conservatism and offended liberal responses.

And why should we listen to fanbitch? Sorry to get like this, but I've been studying gender issues for almost 20 years.

And, I just now see this, mystickeeper namechecks FW. Hee.

For the coup de grace fanbitch offers up a complaint in her personal journal textualdeviance, complaining of the reception at the battlestar_blog.


First ever posting. Hope it qualifies/entertains a bit.

ETA: Wow, I'm newish around FW and didn't realize the depths of the deep, dark well of scary crazy that I'd stumbled upon...

I'm amused to see she started commenting again, but then froze comments.

Now there's this thread, which starts with "women can so be castrated!" and ends with:
Oh, and you misspelled "hypothalamus" and I have no idea why you think the suprachiasmatic nucleus is of any importance, since it's only involved in circadian rhythms.

That would be so, so hilarious if she wasn't dead serious. What the frak are you even talking about?

And some tl;dr in her personal journal. Oh, look, larger boobs. Whoopty. Can we discuss organic chemistry now, thanks?

And these little "Mrs. Toms" out there merrily swallowing the kool-aid and bitching about women who don't toe the line are nothing more than acolytes to anti-feminism. So if you disagree with her you're also racist?

voodoo_in_tx points out this thread for some choice hypocrisy in action.

Damn.