THE LAST WORD
The Oregon Standoff … After Dark
Social media explodes with ‘erotic fan fiction’ lampooning the
Bundys, their militia supporters and the standoff in Burns
AP IMAGES/RICK BOWMER
BY RYAN LENZ
In what quickly became a wildly entertaining trend, social media users in
January began micro-blogging the standoff at Oregon’s Malheur Wildlife Refuge
with homoerotic vignettes about the
macho occupiers and their armed antics.
O n Tw i t t e r, t h e h a s h t a g
#BundyEroticFanFic invited users from
around the world to mock and malign the
antigovernment “Patriots” who began an
armed standoff on Jan. 2 to protest the
prison sentences of two local ranchers
and demand that federal lands be handed
over to the county. By all accounts, the
trend began shortly after the remote
birding refuge was taken over, when
Colin Meloy, frontman of the Portland,
Ore