Bingo! RaceFail, LGBTQFail & Misogyny all in one small act of fannish cluelessness

[rm]

A few clueless slashers fetishize real queer people while throwing in fun sides of racism and misogyny:

http://community.livejournal.com/newtrekslash/268981.html
http://www.seetreklove.com
http://www.seetreklove.com/forums/showpost.php?s=e39b6284f12358bc55546e23865c5597&p=2608&postcount=15

THIS IS WHAT FAIL LOOKS LIKE.

Thanks to telesilla and darkrosetiger for the heads-up.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm FURIOUS. And Tweeting about it. So if you wanna blow this bullshit up together, there are lots of good, loud fannish people who are like "we need to stop this shit now". The teachable moments are getting awfully fucking tiring though.

[karnythia.livejournal.com]

I'm in. Give me a second to write a post and we can get metafandom talking about it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm up doing actual work, hence just link blogging right now, but there will be a tirade if not tonight, tomorrow.

[karnythia.livejournal.com]

Works for me.

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

If you're collecting links, Nancy and I did posts about this yesterday--mine and hers.

[karnythia.livejournal.com]

Woot!

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I also wrote a post (http://eumelia.livejournal.com/417862.html) if you really are collecting.