[ SECRET POST #2772 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2772 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Audrey Tatou, Coco Avant Chanel]


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03.
[Orange is the New Black]


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04.
[Recettear]


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05.
[Mad Men]


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06.
[Game of Thrones]


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07.
[Archer]


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08.
[Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant]


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09.
[Sleepy Hollow]


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10.
[Divergent]













Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[fscom]

08. http://i.imgur.com/aAE4cJr.jpg
[Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant]

[(Anonymous)]

Post it if you want. Some people on tumblr will get it.

I also hate it when women insist they have only male friends because "girls are all shallow" or they "don't like drama" (like guys are never dramatic). Or act as if liking tomboyish or supposedly-masculine things (which is fine on its own) makes them superior to "girly" girls.

[(Anonymous)]

+100

+1

[(Anonymous)]

the cattiest, most two-faced and melodramatic people i've ever met in my life are men.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, most people gossip, most people appraise others' looks. It's a shame but it's how most people I've met are (myself included).

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! +100

My first ongoing summer job was in a nwarly all-male environment, and that cured me right quick of thinking men/boys couldn't be bitchy and gossipy. I liked them, but it was always a relief when the two or three women/girls in the group went out and did things together.

[(Anonymous)]

This. The worst drama I've ever personally witnessed was with guys. I don't know where this belief that dudes are all stable, not-catty, or rational came from but it's a bold faced lie.

[elaminator]

I also hate it when women insist they have only male friends because "girls are all shallow" or they "don't like drama" (like guys are never dramatic). Or act as if liking tomboyish or supposedly-masculine things (which is fine on its own) makes them superior to "girly" girls.

I don't get that either. Whatever you like is fine, and not everyone is the same regardless of gender. People can be weird.

+10000

[diet_poison]

I also used to be kinda like OP, if not as extreme (many of my closest friends are/have been women, though not all), but I did kinda look down on ~~girly~~ stuff when I was younger.

It's a gross attitude.

[sarillia]

I never understand how girls who think like this don't find each other. My two best friends and I were like this in middle school and high school. We went around feeling superior to the other girls but we still managed to make friends with each other because we realized that the stereotypes don't fit literally every single girl but us. Obviously that's just my experience, but the fact that people act like it's rare confuses me.

[(Anonymous)]

Whenever I see people making fun of girls like this... I side-eye the fact that they always insist the girls are doing it for male attention.

There's wanting to be different and special, and then there's pretending in order to impress boys. Plenty of bisexual and lesbian girls act like this, too. It strikes me as the same as everyone who insists girls who wear too much make up must be doing it for the boys, because that's all girls want amirite. :\

[mekkio]

Yes! I hate that, "I'm not like other girls" mentality.

You are not a special snowflake if you like sports. Tons of other girls like sports. You are not a special snowflake if you like sci-fi. Tons of other girls like that too. Like video games? You are not alone in your gender.

I know pop culture has a tendency to paint girls a certain way. And that certain way is thinking sci-fi/fantasy, comics and video games are just "icky boy things" but I think they are getting better with having more female characters being geeks as well. There is money in catering to the female geek population, Hollywood. And it is growing.

[cloud_riven]

Meh. Them totally enlightened teenage kids need to feel validation of some sort, even if it is a rather condescending way to get it. My bet is that they're generally going to grow out of it at some point anyway, so why even think of insisting to preach webcomics at them.

Everyone can use an update on their self-awareness of course, but forcing an issue is like you're competing to see who has the most imo.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get it, isn't the strip saying exactly what the OP is against?

[(Anonymous)]

you can try it but they aren't going to get it. the sarcasm will be miles above their heads.

[(Anonymous)]

That strip is funny as hell.
It sucks when people feel that way because there's no way they can feel comfortable and worthwhile if they feel attacked to the degree that they must compare themselves constantly to others. It's an annoying mindset but I think it must be pretty painful to have it.

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen your sentiment more than I've seen girls actually expressing their special snowflake-ness on tumblr.

[(Anonymous)]

It's confusing to me that so many women apparently have mostly male friends because whenever I try to make dude friends they end up wanting to be romantically involved, especially when they find out I have "nerdy" and "masculine" interests. As a lesbian who just wants a male friend for once, I can't help but find this rather irritating.

[solticisekf]

I think the boys>girls minset is getting better, if you don't look at income fugures of course. *so bitter about these*

[(Anonymous)]

It's a vicious cycle. You can't tell teens or 20-somethings what to do, even if it makes perfect sense, because they won't listen. I didn't listen either. You just have to trust that eventually they'll grow out of it.

Specifically about girl-on-girl hatred, even with movies like Mean Girls being popular it still happens unfortunately. I think it becomes a turning point when you're old enough to realize we should be helping each other in order to get rid of that ugly perception that people have of women behavior.

[gabzillaz]

I've seen a lot of posts in tumblr mocking the "I'm not like other girls". You'll be fine.

[thelonebamf]

So a long time buddy of mine went to see a local female comedian, and apparently her entire schtick was about "typical young females" and the ridiculous things they do. And now, he seems to have taken it to heart as gospel (because a woman said it, after all!) and brings it up any time a woman mentions feeling like she's different/out of place in any context. "OH, well- it's because you're not like a *typical* female."

I get that he's trying to be nice in his misguided way, saying that they're special, they're different, it's not that they're bad- it's that "typical females" are just ridiculous/shallow/whatever but GOOD LORD it drives me up the wall. He really thinks he's being complimentary but doesn't realize he's tearing down an entire gender in the first place.

Moreover, I'm rolling my eyes HARD at the female comedian. I mean, I understand that a lot of comedy has to do with pointing out the ridiculous behavior or a person or group- and maybe her act was hilarious, but I can't help thinking that my friend wasn't the only one who came out of that performance with the same mentality. >:(

[(Anonymous)]

Criticism of this attitude is all over Tumblr, if anything you might draw some of the better people in the tag. Out of curiosity, what's the fandom?

[(Anonymous)]

I've always been one of those girls with more traditionally "masculine" interests and apparently a somewhat guyish personality (although I continually maintain that guy should be gender neutral term). The vast majority of my friends - especially online friends bonded with over mutual hobbies - have always been men. But the whole "I won't be friends with other girls" thing honestly baffles the hell out of me. I LOVE when I make friends with other women because I specifically don't want just male friends. I want friends of all sorts. Meeting other "guyish" gals is exciting because I don't feel so out of place surrounded by my male friends, but befriending more stereotypically "girly" women is awesome too because who the fuck only wants friends who are 100% just like them? And it's nice to have friends outside of the usual fandoms/groups, because that means when there's drama between guys (which is totally a thing and women who claim otherwise are deluding themselves) I still have friends who aren't part of it to spend time with until it blows over.+

[(Anonymous)]

don't understand why women need to be cool towards men?
I am video gaming, and they call me whore... bullshit!!
and you think men are that pure, pfuhhh....