Fandom Backlash is Not Pretty [Survey!Fail Edition]

[eumelia]

See, I was going to write this whole overview about the Survey that brought about the Epic Fail.
Just fyi*.

But there is a nice concise post about the Fail for Newcomers benefit over at Geek Feminism - Who wants to play Evolutionary Neuro Cognitive Research FAIL?

Really, the train wreck is massive, and as time goes on and as I read more and more of everything, it just seems that the two researchers have no effing clue on a)how to handle the Internet and b)how to actually respect the people they are supposedly researching.

There is info about how much this piece of research is NOT approved, and is basically a book deal.

The main Livejournal that this whole fail actually occurred has been locked, to no ones surprise, but this was the post I wanted to link to.

Note the use of "Shemale" in the title.

Fandom set them on FIRE!

I'm happy.

Now I'm waiting for the fallout and off to try and help salvage some of the info!

*There are many more links to read.
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Comments

[ayalanetzer.livejournal.com]

WTF is wrong with people..

Straight women can't possibly find anything attractive about two men being together.
But its a common, acceptible thing for straight men to find the idea of two girls together attractive.

Why doesn't one equal the other, and why in the world do they use the term shemale?

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Well the two don't equal one another because men's desires are a-okay and women shouldn't be desiring anything other than to be accessible to men, duh!

Because "Shemale" in in Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shemale), so it's legit.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Public service note: rm is collecting any screencaps anybody has of the whole debacle. That last glorious page is now well-documented, but anything earlier would be greatly appreciated. (Screencapping the stuff that went down in shaggirl's entry would also be smart.)

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up.

[elf]

This post has been included in a linkspam roundup.

[ninboydean.livejournal.com]

He "corrected himself" from "transsexual" to "shemale"? Wtf? This tool has got to be nothing more than a troll, but then why would they give up their personal info?