TetsuoShima Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 My letter to Maclean's: I find it malicious and slanderous that you would structure an article like this one. You lead with a paragraph about how some pedophiles are Star Trek fans, based on non-scientific police anectdotes. Then you say: "It's the.....-snip- Now that's what I call a meaningfull reaction! Hats of for you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderbear Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 Brent Spiner and Wil Wheaton are lefties. Conclusive proof that we're all sinister. Using the logic of the article (discussion), we could assume that they have more than a passing interest in children, then! ;) And hey, communists and anarchists are lefties - makes them sinister, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcant Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 maybe a lot of dexterous paedophiles are also writing in to complain about being labelled trekies!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 lmao i just sent the following email to that idiot :- What aload of crap your article about men that like star trek are more likely to be child sex abusers, also its stereotyping us fans of a series into something that is disgusting and disgraceful sounds like your article that you printed. Morons like you are more likely to get other people that know star trek fans thinking that they could be a child sex abuser, when its a very very small minority, how would you like your profession being labelled as more likely to be sex offenders or gay. You wouldnt like it, so you might want to think about what you say in future IDIOT!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GorunNova Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 *sigh* Yet another sign that most big news outlets are utterly worthless, with more interest in getting reader attention than conveying actual, meaningful, accurate news. -_-' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorisP Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 Lefthanders have had a bad reputation throughout history. Maybe it's a self fullfilling prophecy - people believing "lefties are evil" alienate leftie' date=' which give tem a poor self image, and in turn can turn them bitter and evil lol[/quote'] I think it is power control. The left side of the body is associated with magic, mental powers, physical powers, etc. If you tell all your citizens that left is evil, then no one ever gets magical, mental or physical powers. You own them. Kind of interesting that Brent Spiner is a left hander. He has power doesn't he? I know he has mental power. I can prove it. I love saying that because I know elderbear or someone will jump in and call me troll. Don't call me troll unless you want me to make you look bad. ;) It will only take me a day or two to get the proof. You may not understand it or accept my explanation, but it is proof, like it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BitKeeper Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 i think that the writer of this insanely poor written artical had nothing to do, and needed money, i dont think that "anyone" is that dumb, to put an artical online with no fact backing up any statements, and i noticed he repeats things often(sign of increativity) :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderbear Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 Kind of interesting that Brent Spiner is a left hander. He has power doesn't he? I know he has mental power. I can prove it. I agree he has power. I'm curious as to your proof, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorisP Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 Hooray!!!!!!!! I have an admission to make Elderbear. I saw your post in the Pyramid of Mars thread. I said that troll stuff above in an attempt to provoke someone, anyone, into asking me about the proof. I want to teach people stuff. In the past, if I go to a forums and say "Hey, you want to learn this stuff?" and start posting, people accused me of taking over the forums. If someone asks a question and I provide the answer, no one has any excuse to attack me. You asked about the proof. You are in trouble now. :) I need to download a movie first if I can find it. They make the best proof. It is something that someone else made. There is no way I could have jiggered the proof. The only thing people can disagree with is my explanation for what they see. It is in the nature of what I talk about that I only need to make people look at the proof and think. They don't really need to listen to what I say. If I point out what is odd, and provide an alternative explanation, "This is not a just a movie, this is because .....", the weirdness of whatever is under discussion keeps poking away at their brain until the brain finally opens up and sees what I am getting at. All I need is just a little bitty eensy meensy teeny tiny crack of curiousity on the part of the other people so that I can open up their brains for them. That is what I do. Open peoples brains up like a flower. Your brain is just like a flower. Or an onion if you like that analogy. What I say helps you unravel the layers of the onion of your brain. I am fertilizer for a flower or a knife for an onion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorisP Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 I am gonna need help for the proof. I need the movie Independence Day starring The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The only ones I can find are 4 gig DVD rips. Anyone know where there is a 700 Meg video? I am kinda surprised that movie is not here. It is science fiction, isn't it? Or is it adventure or action? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralLee Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 I want to teach people stuff. All I need is just a little bitty eensy meensy teeny tiny crack of curiousity on the part of the other people so that I can open up their brains for them. That is what I do. Open peoples brains up like a flower. Your brain is just like a flower. Or an onion if you like that analogy. What I say helps you unravel the layers of the onion of your brain. I am fertilizer for a flower or a knife for an onion. Ahhhh, I get it now, you ARE wanting to start a cult, or a following... Okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulreaper Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 Interesting - all of it. [borisP didn't I PM you asking you questions? I guess I'll have to PM you again then.] I think this is a highly interesting thread however I have nothing further to add for now....awaiting the future! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralLee Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 I am gonna need help for the proof. I need the movie Independence Day starring The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The only ones I can find are 4 gig DVD rips. Anyone know where there is a 700 Meg video? I am kinda surprised that movie is not here. It is science fiction, isn't it? Or is it adventure or action? That would be Will Smith. Most of us have it on VHS, DVD, or CDR by now, or all three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorisP Posted May 30, 2005 Share Posted May 30, 2005 I am fertilizer... Don't get me started... ;) Did I tell you I was Psychic? I heard you saying I was full of shit. That is your implication isn't it? ;) For the guy that private messaged me, I never look up there. I will go check now that I know. To be honest I never liked Independence Day. The Fresh Prince of Bel Air saving the world strained even my Sci Fi enhanced imagination. I like you guys so much maybe I will get the darn DVD. It will be days though instead of 1 or 2 so you have to be patient. As for starting a cult General Lee. No. I was around people who were cult like. I would never be involved in anything like that ever again. I am like the guy you see in kung fu movies. The young new guy is walking down the road and rescues some bum from hoodlums. The bum turns out to be a wandering taoist master or some other master who teaches the new guy how to beat the rest of the bad guys. I am not a master. Don't go there. It is the explanation that is important. A person stumbling on just a regular old guy who goes on to tell them something they never new. Nothing superman or mystical about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderbear Posted May 30, 2005 Share Posted May 30, 2005 At least the MacLean's reporter answers his mail: Sorry that you didn't like the piece. But the fact remains that the police have noticed this coincidence, and given how little we know about pedophiles, I think that's noteworthy. As far as obtaining the stats, as the article made clear, Mike Seto is in the process of doing just that. Regards, Jonathon Gatehouse Maclean's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GorunNova Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 Translated: I'm sorry you didn't like it, and YES, it's based on a little bit of conjecture from individual officers and considerable input from my butt, but someone's looking to replace my butt as the credible source of info... not that it makes this article at all useful in the meantime. Edit: Haven't they considered that pedophiles are loners, much of the time, and being a loner leaves more time and opportunity to get hooked on excellent Sci-Fi stories as well as... far less wholesome things? Edit 2: Oh, wait... I just kicked dirt on the loner lifestyle, didn't I -_-' Edit 3 (too many of these things...): Anyways, what I meant to say that pedophiles may fixate on things... and one of those things may be easily visible and interesting stories (i.e. Star Trek and Star Wars). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str82u Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 I read it and Elderbear is right; while they didn't specifically say "Star trek/Wars fans are Pedo's" they certainly slanted that way, especially with the police quote about two kinds of pedophiles. I have and obssesive/compulsive personality that makes me want to do things like download every single episode in a season as fast as possible then catagorize it, burn it and delete it, but thaat doesn't mean I'm into porn or that I even have the energy enough to want to pursue degenerate activities (Or read the Wall Street Journal for that matter) In reality, I don't even have the energy to care about that type of thing, but it would be a shame if they started targeting folks like us because of misinformation mongers. What I mean is, what if my step-son tells his friends parents, "Oh boy, Andrew loves Star Trek...so much he watches an episode a day" then those parents label me a pedophile or at least mention this and that dumbass article to another set of parents , then , well, you know how rumors are, in the end I'm a satan worshiping pedophile who lives in a small town...oh, and he might like science fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenriswolf Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 The media has a power that can change the very nature of a thing, like you say. What if the parents are swayed by this particular ill-informed individual. Try saying Dungeons and Dragons for instance, to a certain group of people and watch the reaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeth Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 They just found all the Boxsets at Neverland... Seeth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oma Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 They just found all the Boxsets at Neverland... Seeth LMAO! Did they find Wil Wheaton too?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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