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sistercoyote ([info]sistercoyote) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
@ 2010-09-29 09:36:00


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Because comparing Zoe Saldana to a Monkey is totally not racist
Generally speaking, by some miracle, Star Trek fandom has managed to be relatively wank-free (you know. For a large fandom. Either that, or I'm hanging out in the wrong places online, which is totally a possibility).

Of late, however, there have been underground rumblings, of someone who wants to spend their time bashing Nu-Uhura, presumably for breaking up the Epic Wuv between Kirk and Spock. But I'm not sharing this with y'all because someone is wanking about their OTP being harshed. No, this goes much further, and deeper, than that.

The rabbit hole apparently starts here. Unfortunately, no one capped the deleted comments, so we'll never see the fic in question.

You see, the person who wrote the deleted fic (one lotus_fly) at one point had up an image that...well, I'll just let you see for yourself. (WARNING: This is the beginning of the unfunny. Also, if you browse that journal you'll see a whole lot of misogyny in addition to the racism.)

But of course, The people calling lotus_fly on her racism are just like racists! Or maybe they're meeeeeeeean, because they MADE her delete her posts. But a thoughtful mouse provides a screencap so we can all see what she said, anyway.

And so, lotus_fly sets off and starts her own community with rules allowing character bashing, but no bashing of those who do the bashing of the characters, thereby "proving" that she never had racist intent.

Wait.

What?

(Entry edited because I apparently have pronoun issues)

Edited to Add:
Apparently, lotus_fly posted some of her fic to the LiveJournal Where_No_Woman community. This went about as well for her as you might think and resulted in her bannination.

And, there has been journal bahleetion.


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[info]rosehiptea
2010-09-29 06:49 pm UTC (link)
That graphic is... vile. Also I see no difference between the two pictures on the top except a little bit in the lighting.

The fic is still up here? Or is that not the fic in question?

http://lotus-fly.livejournal.com/12335.html#cutid1

(Found the link in the comments at the kink meme but didn't actually read it yet.)

And is this person for real? (comment on a different fill...)

I love you're writting! I don't know who that bitch Uhura thinkss she is but this is hoe the movie should have gone!! I liked the old Uhura, you know where she sang to the others but stayed out of the action and never ever got in the way of any slash. You know when she stayed in the backgorund? Please write more!

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[info]sistercoyote
2010-09-29 07:44 pm UTC (link)
I believe in the left-hand photo her features have been somewhat coarsened. However, unless the paparazzi are also using CGI, I'm pretty sure the manipulation was on the left hand side, and not the right.

I don't actually know if that's the original fic, since I wasn't in on the original post.

I really wouldn't put it past lotus_fly to be socking herself. Though there is a parody here and that comment could be intended similarly. Only -- if you're so far across the line no one can tell, you might be doin' it rong, you know?

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[info]mareen
2010-09-29 07:44 pm UTC (link)
Also I see no difference between the two pictures on the top except a little bit in the lighting.


You mean the two pictures of Uhura? The first one has obviously thicker eyebrows, smaller eyes, a bigger nose, a larger chin, a smaller upper lip, the cheekbones have been moved up a bit and I think made look a bit thicker, and there is less overall color to take the glow off her face. The one on the right is the real Zoe Saldana.

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[info]rosehiptea
2010-09-29 07:55 pm UTC (link)
OK. I should have taken a much closer look. Sorry about that.

(I definitely didn't mean anything against Zoe Saldana!)

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[info]floriatosca
2010-10-01 12:03 am UTC (link)
I find this blatant "uppity bitch needs to know her place" attitude weird in more ways than the obvious, since I'd heard some people in fandom's explanation for writing all-guys, all-the-time being "well, there aren't enough women in the franchise who aren't background characters, distressed damsels, or 2-d love interests."

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[info]fools_game
2010-10-01 02:13 am UTC (link)
The fic to which that comment was left was very obviously a satire, so either that comment is hilariously in the spirit of things, or the saddest most oblivious little misogynist ever.

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[info]rosehiptea
2010-10-01 02:48 am UTC (link)
Ah, OK, I thought it might be a satire but I was kind of afraid to read it considering the nature of the wank.

And the comment does seem over the top. But there are sad little misogynists out there, so I guess it could go either way.

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