The idea of men crashing into the cozy women's world of early Star Trek fandom is ludicrous. Bjo Trimble was an important figure in the general fandom, but the only segment women dominated was slash fiction -- which was given a wide berth by most.
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Does any of this matter at all? No, not in the slightest. Which makes it all the more baffling why people would want to lie about it. Narcissism plus really bad taste, maybe.
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As a side note, there's a sort of erasure going on where Bjo Trimble is propped up as a stand-in for All Women. Bjo Trimble was *unusual*, which made her contributions all the more important.
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Bjo Trimble organized the letter-writing campaign to give Trek a third season. Not 'women'. Bjo. Likewise, DC Fontana had enormous creative influence on Trek -- as did Gene Coon, James Blish, Harlan Ellison, Norman Spinrad, Ted Sturgeon...also that Roddenberry guy.
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Trek was always inclusive, which doesn't mean 'the exclusive domain of ladies, eternally besieged by stinky nerd boys'. If you want to know what Trek fandom was like in the 70s, find a copy of David Gerrold's _The World of Star Trek_ (https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_World_of_Star_Trek …).
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tl;dr: Getting pretty I Made This in here. (By the way, this cartoon is by the excellent
@nedroid who rarely gets credit for it)pic.twitter.com/d0lfoucf8d
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I'm still trying to figure out the universe where men crowded women out of rock & roll reviews in women's magazines
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The argument seems to be that early Beatles fans were teenaged girls, and they made zines and had fan clubs. Which is true, but what changed was _the Beatles_.
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I don't disagree, but she's talking about *the mothers* as the original rock & roll critics because they wrote in to women's magazines about what their children were listening to, implying they were the ones wronged by male fans?
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Oh, geez, I misread that. That's just silly.
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Controling avenues of entertainment gives them outlets to dump their politics and turn the unaware into followers. Just look at D&D 5th Edition, the creeping in of SJW nonsense and IRL political/social nonsense. Pathfinder is also guilty of it if one looks at the 2.0 Playtest.
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It's important for them to control all culture, including nerd culture. There cannot be anything that does not conform to their worldview. Destroying heresy is the end, not the means
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It's complete crap no matter how it's interpreted.
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Part of a longer conversation that's currently pushing 4k RTs here and god knows how many on Tumblr. It would be infuriating if it weren't so inane.
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Maybe because need culture seems to resist just rolling over to them more than other culture and the control of culture is how they propagate their worldview
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