{"id":93053,"date":"2016-07-11T05:08:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T05:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/11\/jennytrout-lexinatrix\/"},"modified":"2016-07-11T05:08:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T05:08:04","slug":"jennytrout-lexinatrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/11\/jennytrout-lexinatrix\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

jennytrout<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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lexinatrix<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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shamelesslyunladylike<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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donotlookatthedogpark<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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misandry-mermaid<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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whereismywizardhat<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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unatheblade<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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actuallyalivingsaint<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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startedwellthatsentence<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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jhameia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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kiriamaya<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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thetrekkiehasthephonebox<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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theoncomingcapaldi<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Things were so much simpler before women started stealing all of my favorite things from me. I don\u2019t care what anyone says. Women aren\u2019t and will never be true fans of Doctor Who, Star Trek or any of that. You jumped in because you wanted attention. You became \u201cfans\u201d because suddenly liking sci-fi shows and fantasy became popular. You only want guys to drool over you because you\u2019re girls who \u201clike\u201d geeky stuff. Kindly go jump in a lake and die.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A woman<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

A woman<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

A woman<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

A woman<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

Learn your history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You think women stole<\/em> your favorite things? If it weren\u2019t for women, those things wouldn\u2019t even exist<\/em>, but you probably don\u2019t even know the names of the women who made that possible.<\/p>\n

So much for \u201cinfinite diversity in infinite combinations\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

Who is the fake now?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

I am so sick of these Fake Geek Guys who don\u2019t even understand the history of the fandom they claim to want to protect.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A WOMAN WAS THE FIRST PRODUCER OF DOCTOR WHO.<\/a><\/p>\n

A WOMAN CREATED THE THEME TUNE FOR DOCTOR WHO.<\/a><\/p>\n

Are you fucking kidding me? So we can create your favorite things, but it\u2019s impossible for us to be fans of them?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

AHAHAHAHAHAHA YES<\/p>\n

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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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll quickly add that Marcia Lucas<\/a><\/b> won an Oscar for editing Star Wars: A New Hope<\/b> and that The Empire Strikes Back<\/b> was co-written by legendary science fiction author Leigh Brackett<\/a><\/b>. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bjo Trimble organized the letter writing campaign<\/p>\n

Joanie Winston, <\/p>\n

Eileen Becker, and Elyse Pines were members of the committee that ran that first convention<\/p>\n

Lucille Ball (of I Love Lucy <\/i>fame) greenlit Star Trek after it\u2019s pilot was rejected by NBC<\/p>\n

Dorothy Catherine \u201cDC\u201d Fontana was the writer of\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTomorrow Is Yesterday\u201d, \u201cFriday\u2019s Child\u201d, \u201cJourney to Babel\u201d, \u201cThis Side of Paradise\u201d, and \u201cThe Enterprise Incident\u201d in the original series, along with several other episodes under the psuedonym Michael Richards. \u00a0She continued writing for the series all the way into 1993.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

i\u2019m just laughing so hard right now bc it\u2019s 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. \u00a0\u201dwe appear to have common interests but you still don\u2019t like me so that must mean we don\u2019t actually have common interests and you are not a real fan\u201d. oh my god i just can\u2019t 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\u2019m just too busy laughing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I love when fake geek boys get slammed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m reasonably certain I\u2019ve been a sci-fi fan longer than most of these gibbering blowhard fake geek boys have been alive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

But yeah, I\u2019ve got TIME LADY tattooed across my knuckles to impress some barely legal misogynists at a convention, because I\u2019m the least ambitious cougar of all time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On the Doctor Who thing I\u2019m a fan at least in part because my parents are and were fans. And have been since the late 70s. My mom knitted Tom Baker\u2019s scarf WAY before it was\u00a0\u2018cool\u2019 (and I think had to design her own pattern). She also sold jellybabies when she owned a coffee and candy store because of Doctor Who and always donated some to the local PBS station for their pledge drives. They had boxes and boxes of classic who on VHS that I think they had to get rid of a move or two ago.<\/p>\n

My mom\u2019s also been a Sherlock Holmes fan since she was a kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

jennytrout: lexinatrix: shamelesslyunladylike: donotlookatthedogpark: misandry-mermaid: whereismywizardhat: unatheblade: actuallyalivingsaint: startedwellthatsentence: jhameia: kiriamaya: thetrekkiehasthephonebox: theoncomingcapaldi: Things were so much simpler before women started stealing all of my favorite things from me. I don\u2019t care what anyone says. Women aren\u2019t and will never be true fans of Doctor Who, Star Trek or any of that. You jumped in … <\/p>\n

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