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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	sisterelwood 2011-03-10 06:08 am UTC (link)
	Shane Higgs You live in Australia, why do you give a fuck about what goes on in the US? If I wanna get my drink on and fuck a bitch that's inebriated, well that's my god given right as a red blooded american. It makes me sick when twig hippies like you try to take my rights away. No, actually that can be considered rape under certain circumstances, dipshit. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2011-03-10 06:10 am UTC (link)
	But it's HIS RIGHT. As an a MURICAN! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	not aimed at you, of course blue_penguin 2011-03-10 02:17 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, but I am an American, good sir douchebag! So I can tell you to go fuck yourself, because that's my right as a red-blooded American. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: not aimed at you, of course cmdr_zoom 2011-03-10 06:01 pm UTC (link)
	your DAMN right, in fact. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: not aimed at you, of course full_metal_ox 2011-03-13 02:03 am UTC (link)
	Remember, kids: the First Amendment also works for people who disagree with you. (Reply to this)(Parent)

oddplaces
2011-04-20 02:31 am UTC (link)

THIS. And those certain circumstances are "all of them where you are found out."

I think it's rather telling which adjective he uses here: a b--h that's inebriated.

As I learnt when I was still a single-digit age: "people 'who', things 'that'."

Obviously, there's nothing illegal about dousing an object with alcohol and then humping it till you puke... and it's just as obvious that Mister Rape-O-Rama up there considers female humans to be objects.

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