[Jan. 11th, 2010|01:54 am] wtf? that's sexist!

wtf_sexism

[ rawkenr0ll ] let's talk about this article. it is best summarized as such: "wahhh, girls and gays are ruining science fiction by making less shit blow up and now cancer will never get cured and teleportation will never be invented!1!11!!!! one!!11!!". i'm not even fucking kidding.



let's dissect some direct quotes:







Science fiction traditionally is about men doing things, inventing new technologies, exploring new worlds, making new scientific discoveries, terraforming planets, etc.



READ: "Because it has been this way, it must continue to be this way forever and ever! Because things that exist are always perfect and change is WRONG."







Many men working in the fields of science, engineering, and technology have cited science fiction (such as the original Star Trek) for inspiring them when they were boys to establish careers in these fields... The current generation of boys will not have this inspiration from science fiction, at least from science fiction on television and in movies.



READ: "Since less shit is blowing up, BOYS WILL HATE SCIENCE."







...the Sci-Fi channel became increasingly feminized losing many of its traditional male viewers in an attempt to go after women viewers.



READ: They wanted to gain popularity among all viewers instead of just half their potential viewing audience, and I will give you no statistics to prove that they lost viewers at all or that they failed in attracting a female audience that may have even surpassed the amount of male viewers they may have lost. I WON'T GIVE YOU THIS INFORMATION, THOUGH, BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE LOGICAL, AND THIS ARTICLE IS MASTERPIECE OF BIASED NONSENSE.







While the original series had its problems, it was more standard science fiction with men doing and accomplishing things. The new series instead had lots of relationship drama, men whining, and men generally unable to find their way out of a wet paper bag.



READ: "if people have emotions, MEN CANNOT ACCOMPLISH THINGS. LIKE BLOWING SHIT UP."







This season three gay characters will be added to various shows on “Syfy”, one of which will be part of a “communal marriage” with “heterosexual and homosexual couplings”. This will mean less programming where men actually do things and more relationship drama, driving away even more men from the channel.



READ: "This season three gay characters will be added to various shows on "Syfy"... This will mean less programming where men actually do things..." I honestly don't even have to change these sentences to prove that this guys thought processes are flawed. His honest-to-God, directly-quoted logic is, "if people are gay, man won't do things."







Slash fiction is a form of fan fiction written primarily by women where characters in science fiction TV shows are gay and have homosexual relationships completely contrary to the established canon of the show.



READ: "Girls write stories about faggots that are obviously lies, because all characters on TV, like people in real life, are straight until proven otherwise! If a man has sex with a women, or talks about it, or thinks about it, even one time, or even not at all, we must assume that this person is straight because they have never proven that they aren't, so crazy fangirls lie about them and slander their good name with slash fiction!"







Of course the BBC gave Davies another show called Torchwood which is basically close to being “slash fiction” on television.



READ: "Gays? On my sci-fi TV shows? I will discredit this man's entire career and bunch him in with amateur authors because he dares write about people like himself!!!"







Given that this is the BBC, all of this nonsense that alienates men for the benefit of women shouldn’t be surprising.



READ: "Catering to the desires of women!? Are you kidding!? We men need our television! How dare you make it something other people would enjoy! This is an outrage!"







What has happened is that science fiction on television has for the most part become indistinguishable from most other television shows which are written for women filled with moronic relationship drama.



READ: "Anything interests other than my own are stupid, nah nah nah poo poo."







And the the kicker, wherein the author attempts to make his argument a social issue and not just a self-indulgent bitchfest about how he doesn't get to see enough explosions:



As we know science fiction has inspired boys to pursue careers in science, engineering, and technology as men. With women killing science fiction on television, the current generation of boys won’t have this opportunity to be inspired to work in these fields. However, many boys who would have gone on to make scientific discoveries and invent new technologies will not do so since they will never be inspired by science fiction as boys.



READ: "If boys don't invent things, NO-ONE WILL! AND THEN THE WORLD WILL END AND NO-ONE WILL EVER CURE CANCER OR INVENT LAZER GUNS THAT GO 'VEW VEW' OR TELEPORTATION AND WE'LL NEVER MEET ALIENS BECAUSE WE'LL NEVER BUILD SPACESHIPS! THE POTENTIAL FEMALE VIEWERS THIS CHANNEL BROUGHT IN AND INTRODUCED TO GENRE COULD NEVER INVENT THESE THINGS, BECAUSE GIRLS AND QUEERS ARE USELESS! DON'T YOU WANT LASER GUNS AND NO MORE CANCER!? DON'T YOU?"











pretty epic, honestly. his fucking logic, omg.