Because comparing Zoe Saldana to a Monkey is totally not racist Generally speaking, by some miracle, Star Trek fandom has managed to be relatively wank-free (you know. For a large fandom. Either that, or I'm hanging out in the wrong places online, which is totally a possibility).
Of late, however, there have been underground rumblings, of someone who wants to spend their time bashing Nu-Uhura, presumably for breaking up the Epic Wuv between Kirk and Spock. But I'm not sharing this with y'all because someone is wanking about their OTP being harshed. No, this goes much further, and deeper, than that.
The rabbit hole apparently starts
here. Unfortunately, no one capped the deleted comments, so we'll never see the fic in question.
You see, the person who wrote the deleted fic (one
lotus_fly) at one point had up an image that...well, I'll just let you
see for yourself. (WARNING: This is the beginning of the unfunny. Also, if you browse that journal you'll see a whole lot of misogyny in addition to the racism.)
But of course,
The people calling lotus_fly on her racism are just like racists! Or maybe they're meeeeeeeean, because they MADE her delete her posts. But a thoughtful mouse
provides a screencap so we can all see what she said, anyway.
And so, lotus_fly sets off and
starts her own community with rules allowing character bashing, but no bashing of those who do the bashing of the characters, thereby "proving" that she never had racist intent.
Wait.
What?
(Entry edited because I apparently have pronoun issues)
Edited to Add:
Apparently, lotus_fly posted some of her fic to the LiveJournal
Where_No_Woman community.
This went about as well for her as you might think and resulted in her bannination.
And, there has been journal bahleetion.
