“Chris Hemsworth’s character in Ghostbusters was so useless! He was stupid and he was just there as eye-candy for the female audience! And he was the only male lead character!”
Dear haters:
Does it bother you when the only lead character in a show who’s the same gender as you is brainless useless eye-candy
oh my god. Imagine being Whoopi and hearing that though.
Well,
when I was nine years old Star Trek came on,“ Goldberg says. “I looked
at it and I went screaming through the house, ‘Come here, mum,
everybody, come quick, come quick, there’s a black lady on television
and she ain’t no maid!’ I knew right then and there I could be anything I
wanted to be.” – See more at: http://www.startrek.com/database_article/goldberg-whoopi#sthash.gKeuf3XI.dpuf
That’s three generations. Nichelle Nichols to Whoopi Goldberg to Leslie Jones.
Today a 16 year old boy was brought into the clinic by his aunt to ‘have the talk’ because his school didn’t teach sex ED and his mother wouldn’t talk to him about sex.
She spent 40 bucks so he could get tested for the first time.
I spent an hour talking to this young boy about sex. I got to have the sex talk with him. I showed him how to properly use a condom and protect himself and his partners. We talked about STDs and pregnancy prevention. We even talked about pubic grooming and ways to avoid razor burn. This poor boy has never had someone talk to him about anything related to the changes his body is going through.
And then we spent 20 minutes talking about consent and how important it is.
Growing up I never, ever had someone talk to me about consent and its importance. I even had sex ED in school!
This shit is important ya’ll.
Planned Parenthood is important
It is the parents’ duty to have “the talk” with their kids, not a government funded organization that murders babies.
First of all fucktruck: I am not a government employee. My wages are not paid by the government.
Second: zero babies have ever been murdered in a planned parenthood.
I didn’t say a god damn word about abortion but you had to get your fucking tighty whiteys in a bunch because an organization that you know nothing about is doing good things for millions of people and you hate it.
Shut your face up about shit you don’t understand you fucking dump truck.
Abortion is murder, just because they’re in the womb doesn’t change the fact you’re killing an innocent human being.
As I said, it’s not a faceless organization’s job to provide sex ed while simultaneously killing unborn children.
Listen up kiddo:
Abortion isn’t murder. Murder is illegal. Abortion is not illegal. IE abortion is not murder.
As i said (and we’ll go with what i said as not total bullshit because it’s obvious you have absolutely no real knowledge when it comes to sex or reproduction and i think we can thank your parents for that) this young man had a single mother that didn’t feel comfortable talking to him about sex. So i did it. I provided medically accurate and up to date information unlike so many parents today.
And by the way, planned parenthood isn’t some shadowy faceless organization.
For example, this is my face. The face i made while reading your stupid ass response.
Mike Pence, Indiana governor and running mate to Donald Trump, thinks letting women serve in the military is a bad idea, and he has evidence: the 1999 animated Disney movie, Mulan. Granted, this isn’t entirely surprising considering his views on women and their menstrual cycles.
Let me tell you a thing, about an amazing man named Patrick Stewart
I went to Comicpalooza this weekend and I was full of nervous energy as I was standing in line to ask Sir Patrick Stewart a question at his panel. I first had to thank him for a speech he had given at amnesty international about domestic violence towards women . I had only seen it a few months ago but I was still dealing with my own personal experience with a similar issue, and I didn’t know what to call it. After seeing Patrick talk so personally about it I finally was able to correctly call it abuse, in my case sexual abuse that was going to quickly turn into physical abuse as well. I didn’t feel guilty or disgusting anymore. I finally didn’t feel responsible for the abuse that was put upon me. I was finally able to start my healing process and to put that part of my life behind me.
After thanking him I asked him “Besides acting, what are you most proud of that you have done in you life (that you are willing to share with us)?”. Sir Patrick told us about how he couldn’t protect his mother from abuse in his household growing up and so in her name works with an organization called Refuge for safe houses for women and children to escape from abusive house holds. Sir Patrick Stewart learned only last year that his father had actually been suffering from PTSD after he returned from the military and was never properly treated. In his father’s name he works with an organization called Combat Stress to help those soldiers who are suffering from PTSD.
They were about to move onto the next question when Sir Patrick looked at me and asked me “My Dear, are you okay?” I said yes, and that I was finally able to move on from that part of my life. He then passionately said that it is never the woman’s fault in domestic violence, and how wrong to think that it ever is. That it is in the power of men to stop violence towards women. The moderator then asked “Do you want a hug?”
Sir Patrick didn’t even hesitate, he smiled, hopped off the stage and came over to embrace me in a hug. Which he held me there for a long while. He told me “You never have to go through that again, you’re safe now.” I couldn’t stop thanking him. His embrace was so warm and genuine. It was two people, two strangers, supporting and giving love. And when we pulled away he looked strait in my eyes, like he was promising that. He told me to take care. And I will.
Sir Patrick Stewart is an absolute roll model for men. He is an amazing man and was so kind and full of heart. I want to let everyone know to please find help if you are in a violent or abusive house hold or relationship. There are organizations and people ready to help. I had countless people after the panel thanking me for sharing the story and asking him those questions. Many said they went through similar things. You are not alone.
Things were so much simpler before women started stealing all of my favorite things from me. I don’t care what anyone says. Women aren’t and will never be true fans of Doctor Who, Star Trek or any of that. You jumped in because you wanted attention. You became “fans” because suddenly liking sci-fi shows and fantasy became popular. You only want guys to drool over you because you’re girls who “like” geeky stuff. Kindly go jump in a lake and die.
A woman organized the letter-writing campaign to NBC to save Star Trek when it was on the verge of being cancelled after the first season, and thus enabled the show to continue on for three seasons allowing it to go into syndication and gain the following it did in reruns.
A woman organized the first ever Star Trek convention, and convinced NASA to donate a truckload full of stuff for said convention thus starting the tradition of Star Trek conventions featuring space for modern science.
A woman greenlit Star Trek while acting at the head of a major studio, and consistently fought pressure to cancel the show. This same woman was the person who greenlit Mission Impossible and was the first woman to head a major studio.
A woman wrote many of the most famous TOS episodes, and went on to write on to write episodes of The Animated Series, The Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine.
Learn your history.
You think women stole your favorite things? If it weren’t for women, those things wouldn’t even exist, but you probably don’t even know the names of the women who made that possible.
So much for “infinite diversity in infinite combinations”…
Who is the fake now?
Also, a lot of the current fandom terminology we take for granted originated in the Star Trek fandom, specifically Star Trek fanfic. And who were the major driving force behind Star Trek fanfic? Women.
Earliest spec fic texts in the English-speaking Western world were written by Thomas More (Utopia), Lady Margaret Cavendish (the Blazing World), and Mary Shelley (Frankenstein). Note that there are two women among those names.
I am so sick of these Fake Geek Guys who don’t even understand the history of the fandom they claim to want to protect.
Are you fucking kidding me? So we can create your favorite things, but it’s impossible for us to be fans of them?
AHAHAHAHAHAHA YES
It would be lovely to see the names of all the women who were so important to the history of Star Trek and Doctor Who.
I’ll quickly add that Marcia Lucas won an Oscar for editing Star Wars: A New Hope and that The Empire Strikes Back was co-written by legendary science fiction author Leigh Brackett.
Bjo Trimble organized the letter writing campaign
Joanie Winston,
Eileen Becker, and Elyse Pines were members of the committee that ran that first convention
Lucille Ball (of I Love Lucy fame) greenlit Star Trek after it’s pilot was rejected by NBC
Dorothy Catherine “DC” Fontana was the writer of
“Tomorrow Is Yesterday”, “Friday’s Child”, “Journey to Babel”, “This Side of Paradise”, and “The Enterprise Incident” in the original series, along with several other episodes under the psuedonym Michael Richards. She continued writing for the series all the way into 1993.
It takes a special kind of misogyny in a man for him to believe that women are literally incapable of enjoying certain popular entertainment and only fake it for attention from men.
i’m just laughing so hard right now bc it’s hitting me that there are geek guys who think that women would actually pretend to like this stuff to cater to guys. like it never really occurred to me the depths of how absolutely fucking stupid that idea is. ”we appear to have common interests but you still don’t like me so that must mean we don’t actually have common interests and you are not a real fan”. oh my god i just can’t right now. i want to feel offended by the fact that there is an idiot out there trying to tell me what i can and cannot like but i’m just too busy laughing.
I love when fake geek boys get slammed.
I’m reasonably certain I’ve been a sci-fi fan longer than most of these gibbering blowhard fake geek boys have been alive.
What makes me, a happily married woman in her thirties, so enraged about these little pukes is that I have been into this shit since before they were born. If you transported to my teenage bedroom, you would find that instead of wallpaper, I had hundreds of mint-in-box Star Wars figures lining the walls. I started watching Doctor Who in 1996. Sliders? VR 5? Quantum Leap? Highlander? ALL OF THAT GEEKY SHIT. All of it, before these petulant man-babies were born. EVEN GHOSTBUSTERS, ASSHOLES.
But yeah, I’ve got TIME LADY tattooed across my knuckles to impress some barely legal misogynists at a convention, because I’m the least ambitious cougar of all time.
“In Nnedi Okorafor’s Nebula Award-winning novella Binti, the eponymous main character is a young woman who is an expert at crafting Astrolabes, a device that was used to discern the position of the stars and planets around us in ancient times, useful for everything from astronomy to time keeping to horoscopes.
It just so happens, there was a woman living in 10th century Syria who was well known for creating these incredible devices.
Mariam “Al-Astrolabiya” Al-Ijiliya lived in Aleppo, Syria, daughter of a man who apprenticed with a famous astrolabe maker named Bitolus before she became his student as well. Her designs were so innovative and complex that she was employed by Sayf al-Dawla—the ruler of Aleppo—from 944 to 967. Astrolabes could be used to determine time of day, as well as location, and were often used in Muslim society to determine Qibla, prayer times, and the days to start Ramadan and Eid.”
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