[ SECRET POST #2772 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2772 ⌋

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

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[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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[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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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(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. :\

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's odd that "not like other girls" is always portrayed as going hand-in-hand with being "more like a guy" or "one of the guys." I had an "I'm not like other girls" phase as a teenager, but it had nothing to do with wanting to impress guys or be like one. I was contemptuous of guys too. It was just that since I was a girl it felt like I was expected to be like "other girls" (which in my mind iirc mostly meant being into makeup and prime-time teen dramas and boybands, stuff like that) whereas I wasn't particularly expected to be like a guy, so "not like other girls" was how I distinguished myself.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly.

These always feel like "let's bash the girls who bash other girls by laughing about how desperate they are for male attention, or how much of a boy they're trying to be because they must think men are superior, because not-girl must automatically equal trying to be one of the guys" and that's dragging so many other problems into the argument that everyone looks stupid.

[(Anonymous)]

I can see this. Somebody attacked me once with this "you're not like other girls, right? boys aren't looking so you can cut it out" line once before (about femslash fanfiction of all things) and it did seem like that. I think people (specifically around fandom) have a tendency to too easily invoke this trope (and the Nice Guy trope), regardless of whether their actions are really indicative of the tropes. Seems like it's one of those internet trends right now.

[(Anonymous)]

Someone I know said some other women had been talking about the sex acts they liked doing with their partners, and she didn't understand who they were trying to impress since there weren't any men around. Because no woman would ever really like doing that during sex. They only pretend to because men like it. It was... awkward... since I also happen to actually like doing some of the things she said those women were talking about.

[(Anonymous)]

Which is why gender stereotypes are awful. I think we need to stop the "pink is for girls, blue is for boys" when they're at a young age. I know some people have and I think it's a good direction to go in. If a girl happens to like pink, cool. But putting girls into pretty boxes wrapped up in a bow causes problems for everyone. I think it just makes kids more confused when they grow up and have an interest that they're "not supposed" to have.

[(Anonymous)]

Totally true.