[ SECRET POST #2899 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2899 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 023 secrets from Secret Submission Post #414.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Fucking hell I'm sick of this. There's a male character in my fandom who very clearly identifies as male, but he gets written/headcanoned as trans or non-binary all the fucking time because he looks a bit more feminine than the other male characters.

It's getting to the point where people are starting to treat it like it's canon when it completely contradicts canon. Like, it's impossible to write him the way they do without blatantly, directly going against the character's established personality traits and attitude. God I'm so mad about this shit. How do people not get that it's the exact opposite of progressive to jump on anything that's not completely gender conformist and use it as evidence of a character's gender identity, while ignoring everything else about that character?

[(Anonymous)]

Slight off-topic, but I'm relatively new to fandom and fanfic, and I find it amazing how fanon can just sort of take over. Not long ago I wrote an AU kidfic, and got lectured because a prepubescent male character noticed a girl was pretty--reader claimed he should "never be shipped with female characters!"

Well, in *canon*, he has both *a wife* and *a girlfriend.* But apparently fandom has decided he's gay, and this reader was kind of bent out of shape about it.

I actually have to stop sometimes and ask myself whether an element I'm using is canon or fanon. I just like to remember which is which, whatever I use!

[diet_poison]

It also really makes me mad because it fucks with feminism and gender issues. I'm a woman who has some classically masculine hobbies and traits, and I'M STILL A WOMAN, THANKS. This is also why I got so mad when I heard they were transifying Rainbow Dash, since the single biggest reason I love her so much is that she represents that in popular media - that it's possible to be rough-and-tumble and have some "boyish" traits and still be female and identify as such.