[ SECRET POST #343 ]

[degrees.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #343 ⌋

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

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Notes:

If I may direct your attention to this poll → HERE

EDIT: I removed a few secrets because it was just brought to my attention (I have a crappy memory) that people are being banned for being flagged for this kind of stuff. SORRY. D:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #049.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 2 ] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom [ 1 ] secret revisted/link to fanfiction.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Saturday, December 15th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here CLOSED.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: 14

[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

^_^ is actually a male smiley in Japan. So do you really believe any Japanese man isn't really a man?

Re: 14

[databomb.livejournal.com]

Um. Just passing by. But. How does a smiley have a gender? Uhhhh it's like, two eyes and a mouth, I don't get how it can really be male or female?

Re: 14

[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

regarding Japanese smilies: ^_^ is male. ^.^ is usually female, ^^ is a shortened version that can be used by most genders.

Re: 14

[(Anonymous)]

hah hah apparently none of the japanese blogs i read have every heard of this. ^_^ is all over the place on female blogs.

Re: 14

[databomb.livejournal.com]

Okay I see your point but awkjenflawef no offense, but I don't think anyone really pays attention to that? Like, a smiley's a smiley, and the consensus seems to be that most guys don't use smileys much - sparingly, if at all - especially ones like "^_^" that are generally regarded as cute? awkefnlawef not trying to argue anything, but this whole thing about smileys, uh, yeah.

Also I don't think many people use ^.^, girl or guy, everyone just uses ^_^, so even if this gender thing is clear in Japan, it kind of doesn't apply in the English realm where everyone just uses the "male version"?

Re: 14

[(Anonymous)]

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

Re: 14

[enjolras.livejournal.com]

Oh geeeez.

Re: 14

[(Anonymous)]

how the fuck does a smiley have a gender

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[mercale.livejournal.com]

How are smilies male or female?

Re: 14

[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

Look up Japanese smileys, which these are.

^_^ is male
^.^ is female (due to a cultural belief about not showing teeth when smiling)
^^ can be either, is a shortened version traditionally used by women

Re: 14

[mercale.livejournal.com]

You know, if you consider that the person added the *giggle* then it's understandable they would be annoyed by guys like that. Because this isn't an area that uses JAPANESE smilies with the same connotations. Shesh.

Re: 14

[(Anonymous)]

sauce? because frankly that sounds like a load of bullshit.

Re: 14

[case]

http://www.netlingo.com/lookup.cfm?term=Japanese%20smileys

(:


........but of course, just because it means one thing in Japan doesn't mean it means the same thing on the English-speaking area of the net.

Kilts and Scotland, skirts and most of the rest of the world, etc.

Re: 14

[(Anonymous)]

thanks.

Re: 14

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's kind of silly that they're associating the development of those with Japan. They're more popular on that side of the ocean, sure, but my friends and I were using several of those smilies (minus the parenthesis cheeks) way back in '93 or '94 right out of our own heads, just like I'm sure thousands of other people all over the world have done before and after us, since it's not really hard to realize that _ can be used to make right-side-up smilies when you're trying to come up with more stupid faces to emote with. ...I have no idea why smilies are making me feel so pedantic.

Re: 14

[(Anonymous)]

Didn’t you know? Unless you fit some Western straight male caricature you shouldn’t transition at all. Just like bisexuals should just pick a preferred gender for their partners and stick with it. And non-Caucasians? You can get cream for that these days I hear.

Re: 14

[case]

Is that how MJ does it?

Re: 14

[(Anonymous)]

Now there is a good question. I’ve heard that there really are creams that burn layers off the skin out there.

Re: 14

[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

WIN.

Re: 14

[cftf.livejournal.com]

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.....given some of the Japanese musicians I've seen? >_> I wonder.

And hell I just finished a 18 page paper with one of the prime topics the effeminization / desexualisation of Asian men in western media so yeah.

Clearly all Japanese men are transgendered.

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(The above post should not be taken seriously on pain of poodles)

Re: 14

[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

ROFL. But oh yeah, Yoshiki is definitely not the average Japanese man. (if he was, I think I'd move there. ~_^)

Re: 14

[cftf.livejournal.com]

I do not know this Yoshiki of which you speak but this is the land that came up with Bridget ok?

and then I'm like "ooh sexy J-Rock chick mmm yeah fapfapfap wait, 'him'? oh god. oh jesus god. what the hell is wrong with this country??

...fapfapfapfap"



wow. I think I can actually feel my sanity fading by the minute. >_>

Re: 14

[case]

wait

then

how do they reproduce