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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kumquat_of_doom
2011-03-13 10:08 pm UTC (link)

Ffff, oh god, I hate this. You know how you know that 'the boys' will stand up for you? When you can call them on their nonsense and they stop doing it.

I used to work with a bunch of real macho lad's lads (it was a car-and-bike shop, so you know) and we used to shout and swear at each other on a regular basis. They quickly learnt exactly what they could not say around me, especially as regards their girlfriends. And then I was out with them all once when my drink got spiked.

One of them took me back to his and kept an eye on me all night, then paid for my taxi home in the morning; the others, when they realised I *wasn't* just drunk, were pissed as hell about it and, had they caught the dipshit responsible, would have inflicted some serious violence on that person.

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napalmnacey
2011-03-13 11:49 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, I don't talk too much about the discrimination and pain women go through on a daily basis, especially my own experiences, to my boyfriend. Not because he doesn't understand, but because he cares so much that it'll ruin his day and he'll worry incessantly about it. He feels a lot of rage on my behalf.

You can know men like that and *not* throw your sisters under the effin' bus. Though clearly that concept isn't clear to the ladies we're talking about.

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