[ SECRET POST #2960 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2960 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Better early than late!

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Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: the cover of Ann Brasheres’ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and a scanned page with the passage:

It was one of the many ironies in her life that Tibby was the only member of her five-person family who still hauled the stupid name Tomoko around. It was her mother’s maiden name. When her parents had been hippies and communists and everything, her mother had derided women who changed their names when they got married. She’d been Alice Tomoko then, and she’d stuck Tibby not only with the name but with the hyphen. Thirteen years later, when Nicky came along, her mother had actually dropped the name Tomoko herself. “It just makes everything so complicated,” she had muttered.

(this part’s actually from book 2, but w/e)

Secret Text: The first time I read it I thought this part was a little weird and stupid but no big deal. As time went on though, all the implications here appeared worse and worse, until this one quick passage eventually ruined the entire series for me.

But I’m also grateful it exists, because without it I wouldn’t have gone on to notice any of the more subtle ways the books promote this way of thinking. Now I firmly believe they’re nothing but conservative glurge pretending to be cool and pro-girl*

*But not feminist. Oh goodness, no! Believing in gender equality is only for silly commie hippies and makes you do wild and crazy things like hyphenate your last name -- right, Ann Brashares?

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[i_paint_the_sky]

Transcript!anon, I love that you know this quote is from book 2 ^_^

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[(Anonymous)]

I hate to break the mystique, but...it's mentioned in the secret that it's from book 2. :(

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[i_paint_the_sky]

:(

Obviously missed reading the small text.