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So, I was planning to post a little bit about Eureka today, but I've inadvertently spent the day on the Internet reading about all the various ways people suck.
1) Gatefail
Gatefail was triggered by the following casting call that was actually sent out to various casting agencies for a guest character on SGU:
[ELEANOR PERRY] (35-40) and quite attractive. A brilliant scientist who happens to be a quadriplegic. Affected since childhood, her disability has rendered her body physically useless. However, after being brought on board the Destiny as the only person who may be able to save the ship and her crew from certain annihilation, she is given temporary powers that enable her to walk again and to finally experience intimacy.sptv050769..Strong guest lead. NAMES PREFERRED. ACTRESS MUST BE PHYSICALLY THIN. (THINK CALISTA FLOCKHART).
Sheafrotherdon has done quite a bit of follow-up on her LJ (but there's no common tag for me to link to, so I just linked to one post).
John Scalzi, SGU's creative consultant, responded here. Last I checked, he'd done a really good job of shutting down trolls, so there was some excellent discussion in the comments.
io9 also wrote a decent article encapsulating the Gatefail here. Don't read the comments if you have a tendency towards high blood pressure.
2) Culturefail
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cereta on mens' role in rape culture, and while it's interesting, she did such a good job of policing trolls that the 26 (so far) pages of comments that follow are fascinating, sad, and unbelievably eye-opening.
3) Racefail
I think I need chocolate. Or possibly ice cream. This is just too much fail for one person to deal with all in one day.
1) Gatefail
Gatefail was triggered by the following casting call that was actually sent out to various casting agencies for a guest character on SGU:
[ELEANOR PERRY] (35-40) and quite attractive. A brilliant scientist who happens to be a quadriplegic. Affected since childhood, her disability has rendered her body physically useless. However, after being brought on board the Destiny as the only person who may be able to save the ship and her crew from certain annihilation, she is given temporary powers that enable her to walk again and to finally experience intimacy.sptv050769..Strong guest lead. NAMES PREFERRED. ACTRESS MUST BE PHYSICALLY THIN. (THINK CALISTA FLOCKHART).
Sheafrotherdon has done quite a bit of follow-up on her LJ (but there's no common tag for me to link to, so I just linked to one post).
John Scalzi, SGU's creative consultant, responded here. Last I checked, he'd done a really good job of shutting down trolls, so there was some excellent discussion in the comments.
io9 also wrote a decent article encapsulating the Gatefail here. Don't read the comments if you have a tendency towards high blood pressure.
2) Culturefail
This is an older post by
cereta on mens' role in rape culture, and while it's interesting, she did such a good job of policing trolls that the 26 (so far) pages of comments that follow are fascinating, sad, and unbelievably eye-opening.3) Racefail
At a Senator Claire McCaskill town hall, several black women brought a sign with them (and were apparently booed upon entering the room). They rolled the sign up, and set it aside. A photographer approached the woman sitting on the end of the aisle and asked to see the poster. As the woman unrolled the poster for the photographer, a white man got out of the bleachers, grabbed it from her, and attempted to destroy it. Audience members, who were overwhelmingly white, cheered. The woman got out of her seat to retrieve her poster. And something like four police officers grabbed her and escorted her out of the building. The audience cheered louder.--The Curvature.
The hugely offensive sign that the man decided to rip up, by the way? It was of Rosa Parks.
I think I need chocolate. Or possibly ice cream. This is just too much fail for one person to deal with all in one day.
