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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]sistercoyote
2011-03-10 06:42 pm UTC (link)
This makes three of us -- and I literally took in Star Trek with my mother's milk!

And my dad totally cried when Spock died in Wrath of Kahn.

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[info]napalmnacey
2011-03-10 11:35 pm UTC (link)
My sister Helen *still cries* when she sees that film. And she's seen it, like, hundreds of times! When my sister Cati got her a book of Leonard Nimoy's photos with a personalised message in it? My sister Helen *burst into tears* and then went sort of into shock. It was so adorable, the poor thing! It's her prized possession that she only handles with white cotton gloves.

We're so Trekky we even love the Animated Series like fire. I love that series cause Uhura gets to do some seriously good shit, like command the Enterprise. Oh, and Lt. M'Ress. I dressed up as her once. *^_^*

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