[ SECRET POST #368 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #368 ⌋

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

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Notes:

- First comment is: Name That Fandom!!

Secrets Left to Post: 08 pages, 150 secrets from Secret Submission Post #053.
Secrets Not Posted: [1] [2] broken links, 0 not!secrets, [1] not!fandom, [1] personal attack.
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Comments

[kurozukin-a.livejournal.com]

44. The funny thing is, I actually think het does devalue male-female friendship, sometimes? At least when two guy characters have a close friendship/partnership, they stand some chance of not being shipped together all the friggging time. If it's a guy and a girl, it's pretty much guaranteed that they'll be paired together constantly, and it might even become canon (GOD DAMN IT MULDER AND SCULLY). It's like people can't even conceive of men and women relating to each other without romance involved? It makes me kinda sad sometimes.

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

IAWTC

[tealizard.livejournal.com]

Seriously. People would often ask me when me and so and so were gonna start going out, any time I had a male friend (which were most of them). People probably thought I was a whore... -_-;; Even one guy who i considered my best friend decided that we were TTLY MADE FOR EACH OTHERRRR and he was IN LOOOOOVE WITH MEEE and he'd call me 2-3 times a day, until finally I told him to stop calling me. I mean, he needed to at least take a fucking bath before he can get a date, but he's not my type anyway -_- He'd said this shit before, but he just couldn't take being just friends. he apparantly told some friends at my highschool that we were dating for a week or so, and i was like w.... what...?

I mean, he's pretty much the reason I'm terrified to have male friends anymore, incase they do turn out to be crazy stalkers or bend to they hype that guys/girls can't be fucking friends.

[crackjaw.livejournal.com]

THIS HAPPENS IRL TOO. IT'S SO FUCKING ANNOYING. One of my best friends is a guy, and before he graduated EVERYONE asked us when we were going to start dating, despite our insistence that we didn't see each other that way and besides starting a relationship would probably throw a wrench in our friendship. And this other time! I ran into one of my guy friends and he was with a female friend of his and we said hi to each other and started talking, and his female friend asked us whether we were going out after like five minutes. WTF ALL WE'D DONE WAS TALK.

Sorry for the rant but it annoys me so much.

...anyway, this is the number one reason I hope Ichigo/Rukia from Bleach doesn't become canon, I just think they work so well as platonic.

[agawa-jean.livejournal.com]

So agreed. It's one of the reason that I find it so refreshing to watch/read media where this doesn't happen - it makes you all more away of the way males and females are traditionally written and acted around one another. This is especially relevent to female characters (in my mind) because they're often written as potential love interests rather than characters in their own right. Either way, the assumption that male/female relationships are about/will lead to a romanic relationship bugs me immensely. :/

Also, it's especially creepy when people take it like that in real life, either by assuming that close female/male relationships are actually romantic, or assumption on one half of the friendship that there should be a relationship simply because of the male/female dynamic. Um, what?

Sorry if any of this is incomprehensible, I'm writing on a rather broken keyboard. >:

[relmneiko.livejournal.com]

Oh god, so yes. And I'll also chime in with my IRL anecdote - one of my closest friends is a guy, and everybody - and I mean everybody, my family, my coworkers, then my landlord - pretty much everybody who didn't know one or the other well thought we were going out. I've got two other friends, both girls, and the four of us hang out a lot. Both of them admitted that their families and a number of other people thought that he was also going out with THEM.

No matter what I tell people, they never believe that I'm not going out with him, never have, and never will, I see him as a little brother yadda yadda... unless I tell them he's gay. JESUS, PEOPLE. *pulls out hair in frustration*

[karma-kalisutah.livejournal.com]

You took the words right out of my mouth. Er, keyboard.