Linkblogging: Dear Star Trek fandom: there are girls in your sandbox!

[umadoshi]

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

Comments

[sarcasm_hime]

OMG I'm purported!

[umadoshi]

I know! It was a shocking revelation!

[rahirah]

Trolls. Meh.

[umadoshi]

At least the entertainment value is high. It takes a particular kind of train wreck to amuse me, but this one manages it.

[fleurette]

LOL! Idiot fanboys!

*Purported female long time Star Trek and Doctor Who fan reporting for duty -- ready, aim, PANDER!!!!!*

[umadoshi]

It walks that fine line between horrifying and hysterically funny.

[umadoshi]

Excellent. ^^ (And then I got sucked into catching up on what I missed by going to bed. The sandwich metaphor someone used is a thing of beauty.)

[shiroiko]

*sigh*

These attitudes remind me so much of what comic book conventions were like when I first seriously got into them in the 90's. May I be forever grateful for anime and manga, and how they completely changed the environment (and gender mix) at comic book conventions.

[umadoshi]

Amen. I never had really bad gender-line experiences at my early cons, and I don't know if that was pure luck, but some of the stories people tell are just...wow.