Linkblogging: Dear Star Trek fandom: there are girls in your sandbox!
Via cofax7: Apparently girls in Star Trek fandom are a new and poisonous development. Who knew? (The post is annoying, but the comments are something else.)
This thread is particularly priceless: "Ones [new female fans] who didn't care about Star Trek at all until they stuck a bunch of explosions and "hot" boys. They are the ones we are complaining about, not the (purported) girls who were fans before."
PURPORTED GIRLS.
(Same commenter [not the OP], later: "You are 100% correct. However, I've noticed that women will ALWAYS react to criticism, or anything that sounds like criticism, with knee-jerk denial. Even if it's true. And it;s funny watching all these girls do exactly that overs something that is obviously true.
The new movie was shit, and made to pander to idiots who care more about "hot" people than plot, story or character development. In other words, it's made for girls. I know that, you know that. So this new wave of fangirl icons don't surprise me, even if they annoy me."
Not only are the comments full of (often unwittingly funny) fanboys being dumbass misogynists, their ignorance of the fandom's history is being handed to them by female fans who've been around since ST: TOS aired, and they still aren't getting it.
[manually x-posted to DW]
This thread is particularly priceless: "Ones [new female fans] who didn't care about Star Trek at all until they stuck a bunch of explosions and "hot" boys. They are the ones we are complaining about, not the (purported) girls who were fans before."
PURPORTED GIRLS.
(Same commenter [not the OP], later: "You are 100% correct. However, I've noticed that women will ALWAYS react to criticism, or anything that sounds like criticism, with knee-jerk denial. Even if it's true. And it;s funny watching all these girls do exactly that overs something that is obviously true.
The new movie was shit, and made to pander to idiots who care more about "hot" people than plot, story or character development. In other words, it's made for girls. I know that, you know that. So this new wave of fangirl icons don't surprise me, even if they annoy me."
Not only are the comments full of (often unwittingly funny) fanboys being dumbass misogynists, their ignorance of the fandom's history is being handed to them by female fans who've been around since ST: TOS aired, and they still aren't getting it.
[manually x-posted to DW]