Comments on: Treknobabble #18: How To Become a Trekkie

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Sat, 15 May 2010 18:47:46 +0000

I hope I don’t have to go explaining myself again. I wonder how many people still think I’m racist.

One thing I’ve wondered is that I don’t think I have many (any?) Asian fans. (Maybe it’s Film Junk’s fault.) I don’t seem to appeal to my own demographic.

By: Glendon

Glendon — Sat, 15 May 2010 02:58:03 +0000

An audio version of this post and comments should have been included in the Film Junk clip show.

By: Diggity

Diggity — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:20:40 +0000

LOL a guy named Henrik making fun of Jews,LOL
THIS IS THE BEST TREKNOBABBLE POST EVER!!

By: Jay C.

Jay C. — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:37:12 +0000

It must be great having Henrik on your side Reed.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:52:00 +0000

In regards to offending people, I’ll say that I love me some good negro jokes, gay jokes or lesbian jokes or asian jokes or student jokes or scottish jokes etc. I think stereotypes are hilarious. I just think it gets problematic if it’s coming from somebody you don’t know, clearly the jokes are only funny when you know they’re meant as jokes. I guess it all depends on wether or not you have some suspicion that Reed may actually be a racist and that taints his choice of words, but for me, I don’t see any problem with having fun with stereotypes, and people need to get over themselves if they take offense.

What happens when a Jew walks into a wall with an erect cock?

He hurts his nose!

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:36:10 +0000

“I guess thatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s what happens when you ask your friends to support you in your comments section.”

Classic.

“Maybe Reed should be forced to do a movie review for Paul HaggisÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ Crash.”

Amazing.

This comments section is off the hook. I definitely didn’t see anything racist with the comments uttered in the article, but I’m not very conscious of offending people, I do it without intent pratically on a daily basis. I’ve even gotten censored when I called into the FilmJunk live show once, and my faux-pas actually ended up generating some funny content from Jay, with him laughing! So they go out of their way to keep FilmJunk clean.

“Ã¢â‚¬Å“Black people get more respect than geeks.Ã¢â‚¬Â”

Am I the only one who thinks it’s funny? I guess me and Reed does share some things.

And for all you fans out there, I have been a guest columnist for FilmJunk! Just do a search and you’ll find some stuff. If it’s Star Trek you’re in need of, I have not written anything on FilmJunk (though co-writing a Treknobabble would be an honor), but I have written an extremely eloquent and convincing post about why ST:TNG is amazing, which can be found at my gasping-for-breath personal blog, HERE:http://no-kids.blogspot.com/2007/06/reasons-why-you-should-appreciate-star.html

Enjoy!

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:28:17 +0000

Oh, BTW, Danno and Diggity don’t really know me that well, but I appreciate their support.

Makes me think of the cases where someone does something bad, and the next door neighbours get interviewed saying, “He seemed like such a nice guy.”

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:23:59 +0000

Yes, I agree that paragraph was poorly constructed and missing some connective sentences. You could say there are contradictory thoughts being expressed at the same time. I’m tempted to dissect that paragraph, but I’m afraid of being “misunderstood” only further.

Greg, thx for your follow-up post. I agree with you.

Yes, I understand I was racist in the sense of perpetuating stereotypes. I was being satirical, but I fell into the trap where written words do not convey the intent behind them. But I am not racist in the sense of judging someone by the colour of his or her skin.

When I mentioned to Jay that Sean had replaced my spelling out of the n-word, I offhandedly brought up the song “Woman is the (n-word) of the World” by John Lennon as a defense. And then Jay accuses me of placing myself in the same artistic league with John Lennon. I’m reminded of the uproar caused by the misconstruing of Lennon’s words in comparing The Beatles to Jesus. Oops, there I go again, comparing myself to Lennon. And I probably offended women and religious people, too.

I think Sean will have to put up a disclaimer in front of all my Treknobabbles to say that the ideas expressed in it do not reflect the opinions of FilmJunk.

By: fizzle

fizzle — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:03:12 +0000

i agree with cheel, re-reading that paragraph makes you realize that it makes no sense. Maybe Reed saw some stand up comedy the night before and wanted to work it in to his article, it definetly didn’t work. I think you should build a TV from scratch to win the people back.

By: Diggity

Diggity — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:21:30 +0000

I have to agree with Danno, hi Danno, Reed is a good guy, Hey Reed and a great first baseman,
I just like to bust balls, and being a Trekkie, though somewhat reformed, the original show was more about testing penicilin against space VD than space exploration. Oh and a star destroyer could wipe the floor with the enterprise, hi Trekkies.

By: Danno

Danno — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:58:18 +0000

Maybe Reed should be forced to do a movie review for Paul Haggis’ Crash. LOL

Reed is a good guy and I will say that I was surprised and somewhat shocked by his comments only because it seemed very out of character for him to write that.

Also i think it should be noted that it would be somewhat strange for a Trekkie to be racist because everyone knows that Star Trek is all about finding hot alien women for Captain Kirk so he can make out with them on the show.

By: swarez

swarez — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:57:09 +0000

I see nothing wrong with Reeds words. Some people just are overly sensitive for some strange reason and feel the need to “correct” others for saying something that they don’t have the balls to say.
How is this racist? And which group is being targeted? Black people or geeks?