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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-12-04 06:03 pm

[ SECRET POST #2893 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2893 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-12-05 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, jesus, you're fucking rude.

And no, it's not always a vehicle for attention and making the world revolve around the character. It's often used badly, and definitely used way too frequently, and way too-lopsidedly wrt the genders and races of the characters, but there is nothing inherently bad about telling a story about a character's grief over the death of someone they love -- no matter their genders. It can be good or bad, depending on how it's done.

The reason it's usually annoying is because of how cliched and unimaginative the trope has become, and how split along gender and racial lines the trope is in the aggregate. It's still being used today the same way it was used in the 1960s, and it still isn't used with a variety of different kinds of people -- THAT's the problem.

(Anonymous) 2014-12-05 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
da

You're rather rude yourself...

(Anonymous) 2014-12-05 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry, but I think I'm allowed to be rude over trauma and PTSD being used as a vehicle for the main character's development and nothing more--like a goddamn accessory.
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[personal profile] diet_poison 2014-12-05 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Aren't pretty much all problems used as character development vehicles in media?

(Anonymous) 2014-12-05 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
It's a bit different when it's treated as an accessory, and you know it.

(Anonymous) 2014-12-05 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
What makes it an accessory instead of part of a character's development? Is it whetheror not you personally feel affronted?

By the way, you having had trauma in your life, and you suffering from an illness, does NOT give you the right to be a dick. And it's pretty offensive that you use it to justify your behavior, especially considering that's one of the characteristics of the fucking trope.
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[personal profile] diet_poison 2014-12-06 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
So...what's your determination of when it's being used as an accessory, and when it's not?