WTF Alert

[jaunthie]

Sorry for the long silence, folks, but I've been absolutely swamped in the weeks since the 3-Day. I'm still digging out from under, but I just read something so extraordinary, so mind-boggling, so bizarre that I just had to point it out to anyone who might actually read this blog.

Did you know that the original Star Trek TV series is irresistable to pedophiles? That the utopian, interracial and interplanetary Federation society depicted in the show enables pedophiles to deny differences between the sexes and between the generations and therefore enables their perversions?

Yeah, neither did I.

But evidently someone is making this case based on an LA Times story on pedophiles, where a Toronto officer made the claim that out of 100 pedophiles arrested last year, all but one was a hard-core Trekkie. (This figure has since been debunked, by the way, but the Toronto squad is standing firm in their claim that there's a high incidence of Trekkiedom and fantasy role-playing game afficiandoism in the arrested-pedophile population.)

Slate's Mickey Kaus has the story (such as it is) here. Bring your own salt lick and/or favorite anti-nausea agent. I don't know what's scarier: that the original quote has been so taken out of context and sensationalized, or that someone is actually trying to run with it.

Comments

[monkeybard]

I don't think I've had enough coffee to delve into the article you linked. To me it feels like the media are trying to find yet another reason to mock and ostracise a mostly harmless group of people. They've always had it in for Trekkies--perhaps because they were the first large, powerful, and orgainzed SciFi fandom--and this looks like a pathetic attempt to find something new with which to discredit the fandom.