[ SECRET POST #2870 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2870 ⌋

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

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[X-Files]


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(Doctor Who/Torchwood)


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(Benedict Cumberbatch)


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[Star Trek]


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[Star Trek Voyager, "Macrocosm"]


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[Great British Bake Off series 4, Ruby Tandoh]


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[How to Get Away with Murder]


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[Far Cry 3]


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[Krazy Kat & Ignatz Mouse]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 047 secrets from Secret Submission Post #410.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This is as good a place as any to complain about a Scully wardrobe/prop problem from the show. In the first couple seasons, there was this weird sexist thing with Scully's armament. Whenever she pulled a gun, it'd be a little thing like a Walther PPK. (Fuckin' .380 round. Yeesh.) Now, yes, she's a small woman, but that doesn't get her out of FBI requirements, which at that time meant a Sig-Sauer in 9mm or .40. They fixed this in later seasons, and I don't recall anyone going "Gosh, how can such a little woman handle a big handgun like that? Shouldn't she get a man to help her?" which indicates to me that giving her a little girly gun in the first place was just plain sexist and stupid.

Please tell me I'm not the only one bothered by that?

[ariakas]

I was too young to have really noticed, but you just reminded me about someone who posted a link on f!s to an article stating basically how hard it is for women to handle big bad sidearms with their puny noodlewrists so it wasn't realistic for them to give big guns to female characters and they should fix that. I shit you not, the article's author was a woman, too (or at least playing one on the internet).

Yet the examples she gave were of firearms I've seen small children handle competently.

tl;dr weird sexist tripe exists about guns, too. You'd really think it wasn't, but it does. (I also knew several guys who thought little guns were "sexier" so they always gave their female characters tiny pistols. That might have been it as well.)