[ SECRET POST #2795 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2795 ⌋

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

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[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]


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[Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers]


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[Jeeves and Wooster]


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[Yahtzee/Zero Punctuation]


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[Markiplier]


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[Jackie Chan Adventures]


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08.
[The Parent Trap]


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[Alexander]


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[Starsky and Hutch]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 012 secrets from Secret Submission Post #399.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If this many people missed it, it might have been the way it was written was ambiguous or something.

Do you know where in?

[(Anonymous)]

How many is "this many", though? A few people on FS, and one tumblr user? Lots of people have mediocre to poor reading comprehension skills, unfortunately. If you combine that with the usual "everybody is white" assumption, you'd end up exactly the same place as the tumblr user: Shadow is white and there was no evidence to the contrary.

[(Anonymous)]

If this many people missed it, it might have been the way it was written was ambiguous or something.

Nope. People "miss" obvious descriptions of race all the time. Which is why there was such a shitstorm when the Hunger Games movie came out and people were shocked that Rue was black, even though her skin color is explicitly described when she's introduced in the book.

Another book I like has a character described as having black skin -- those exact words -- and the author said that she got tons of questions from readers asking her if she meant "hair." Because it's so easy to typo "hair" as "skin." The keys are like right next to each other.

[(Anonymous)]

That wasn't an obvious description. There's a difference between the narrative actually pointing it out, and a character that's already racist and confrontational trying to get a rise out of another.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

I guess it depends on one's meaning of "obvious". Nowhere does the book come out and say "Shadow is a mixed race man" or "Shadow's not white". It just gives you all the information that points to Shadow not looking white, with additional information that suggests his mother is black or also mixed race.

It's kind of like describing a small furry animal that has pointy ears and a tail and purrs and enjoys tuna and naps in sunny spots and having people go, "BUT IT'S NOT OBVIOUS THAT IT'S A CAT."

[(Anonymous)]

Many people also missed that Prue and Cinna in 'The Hunger Games' were black.

[(Anonymous)]

The books didn't say anything about what race Cinna was.

[(Anonymous)]

Who is Prue?

[arcadiaego]

Really? Because The Hunger Games explicitly states that Rue is non-white, and yet many people were surprised when she was cast as such in the film.