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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napalmnacey
2011-03-10 12:14 pm UTC (link)

I love retro fashion, basically because in those days the emphasis was in the line, the proper construction of dresses to augment and flatter the figure (rather than the figure being trimmed down to flatter the fashion) and sparklies. I love sparklies and colour! Retro likes sparklies and colour. Makes me a happy Nacey. Hell, one of my comics is retro just so I can imagine beautiful dresses and outfits on the heroines.

Cute animals make everything okay. See:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0803/nacey/DSC08342b.jpg

Also boobs.

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	sepiamagpie 2011-03-10 12:17 pm UTC (link)
	If you go back a fair bit (she updates so much, even if it was just a few days ago) you'll find she did a great section on my favourite designer, Jean-Phillipe Worth, and his brother Charles Fredericke Worth. Best part of the 1900s. Only thing I'd want from those decades is the fashion. aw, kitty! (Reply to this)(Parent)

squeakthemouse
2011-03-10 12:58 pm UTC (link)

I love retro fashion, basically because in those days the emphasis was in the line, the proper construction of dresses to augment and flatter the figure (rather than the figure being trimmed down to flatter the fashion) and sparklies.

Butting in to say I totally agree! Back in fashion school, I felt kind of like a throwback b/c that's how I would design my clothes--they were meant to look better on the body than on the hanger. A lot of the stuff I designed would have to be worn by girls with curves. Which is ironic, considering that I have the kind of figure (skinny with no boobs/butt) that is better suited for fashion as we're used to it now.

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napalmnacey
2011-03-10 01:06 pm UTC (link)

I've run into too many people that say, "Oh, but their body ruins the line of the clothes" and my internal narration goes, "WHAT THE HELL? ARE you a designer of clothes for humans or ARE YOU NOT? Do they teach you NOTHING about proper construction of clothes?!"

But a lot of the standards have slipped with modern production methods. Hems. What did they ever do to us? Why are we so cruel to the simple hem?! Do you know how many pieces of clothing I see in stores, particularly up-market fashion boutiques, where the clothes don't even have a decent hem?!

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squeakthemouse
2011-03-10 01:17 pm UTC (link)

Oh, I have heard that too. I was told that reason why models look how they do is b/c the clothes look better on a hanger than on a body, and basically models are human hangers. This mentality confounds me. For me, clothes and the body are so closely tied together that when I design, one of the first things I consider is how the clothes will look on the body.

tbh I always felt I wasn't as edgy or creative of a designer as many of my classmates, but I was more interested in costume design, so I was OK with it. If I did do fashion design my looks would definitely be more suited to practical ready-to-wear clothes than high fashion.

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full_metal_ox
2011-03-13 01:52 am UTC (link)

The same attitude informed the sort of modern architects Tom Wolfe skewered in From Bauhaus to Our House; some of them were reportedly in the habit of paying periodic visits to the tenants of their buildings and dressing them down for living in them wrongly--cluttering the sleek, unified Jetsonian line with things like floral upholstery and sentimental bric-a-brac.

(Ayn Rand, as evidenced by The Fountainhead, thought this was a good thing.)

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