[ SECRET POST #2976 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2976 ⌋

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

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[Homestuck]


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[NCIS: Los Angeles/Hawaii Five-0]


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[Left Shark (Katy Perry? Super Bowl?) and Bad-Dragon .com]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the same way. I honestly don't understand why some people need characters to be just like them in order to identify with them. I mean, I'm a woman, but there are loads of female characters out there that I can't identify with at all. Like you said, it's all about things like personality traits or backstories for me, because gender and race are such broad categories that chances are I'm not going to see a lot of myself in a character just because they happen to be in that same category as me.

[(Anonymous)]

You don't understand that other peoples' needs may be different than yours? Surely you don't mean that. I don't feel the need to have children, but I'd be a clueless jerk if I went around questioning why other people wanted to have them just because *I* was fine without them.

[(Anonymous)]

It just doesn't make sense to me because the chances of finding a character who is just like you in media is slim to none. And, like I said, you can have a character who matches you in gender or race but has absolutely nothing else in common with you, so it just baffles me that people get hung up on that as opposed to looking for characters whose experience as a whole matches your own, which may mean characters who aren't like you at all in any physical sense.

[darkmanifest]

I think the mistake is in thinking there's people who only identify with characters who are physically like them, rather than people who find it easier to identify with such characters, but not impossible to identify with others. It's usually a matter of preference, not opposition.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt and way late, but thank you for helping me realize why comments like anon's bother me so much! I don't need someone to be 100% like me to identify with someone, it's just easier/nice if we have more things in common.