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napalmnacey ([info]napalmnacey) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
@ 2011-03-10 00:07:00


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Star Trek endorses Rape Culture
(TW: Rape Culture, objectification, enslaving women)

Hey everybody? You know what Star Trek needs? More objectification and exploitation of women! But we'll make them *green*, and alien so that it differentiates them from Earth women. That'll throw off the feminist hordes!

What am I talking about?

Why, Official Star Trek Fratboy shirts featuring the words "ORION SLAVES GONE WILD" on a t-shirt specifically being marketed to Frat Boys for Spring Break.

I wish I was kidding. I *so* wish I was kidding. I think what hurts the most about this is this is Star Trek. Ostensibly, it's supposed to be inclusive.

Bonus: These shirts were advertised on the official Star Trek Facebook page! No warning, no words, just a trigger out of the friggin' blue, with a heapin' help of "Get back in the kitchen" jokes for any women that complained about it in the comment thread.

ETA: http://www.facebook.com/StarTrek/posts/194446503919172

- I get threatened to be whipped.
- One guy threatened to show me what it was like to *not* survive a rape, but thankfully that was taken down. You see the fallout of that comment later.

Why is it when someone merely *mentions* that something might be exploitative or offensive in a firm tone that challenges the status quo, the death threats and the rage!posting occurs? It's like fucking clockwork.


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[info]tehrin
2011-03-10 05:40 am UTC (link)
All those comments are horrible (that isn't a strong enough word for it but I don't know what is).

I always hate when "pound" is used in reference to sex which I hope the poster meant because it doesn't make me think of sex because the alternative is getting beat up. Which all be it, gives good reason angry though it would have NOTHING AT ALL to do with this post. And neither does sex save objectification of women.

Unfortunately this reminds me that fandom at large still has ways to go before it becomes a safe space for women.

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[info]littleshebear
2011-03-10 09:29 am UTC (link)
I always hate when "pound" is used in reference to sex

It was a reference to sex, I'm pretty sure the word "cunt" was involved somewhere but I can't remember the exact quote. And yeah, I hate it too because its equating violence with sex which I'm pretty sure is indicitave of something. Oh yeah, that'd be rape culture.

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