[ SECRET POST #3439 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3439 ⌋

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

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[lupin sansei/lupin the third]


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03.
[Pokemon]


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04.
[Lord of the Rings]


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06.
[Animorphs]


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[Dark Tower]


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08. [SPOILERS for Shin Megami Tensei IV]



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09. [WARNING for discussion of rape]


[Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist"]


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10. [WARNING for discussion of rape]























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Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #491.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[crossy_woad]

IDK. I don't think fearing rape is so weird. It's a scary thing. It's scarier than spiders, the dark, and frankly, in some people's opinion, death.

Everybody dies. Rape is not something everyone has to deal with, nor should anyone.

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, who said fearing rape was weird?

[crossy_woad]

Acting like it's really cringe-worthy to say "a fate worse than death" always strikes me as weird. For some people, maybe it is. I understand that some people see that as erasing victims who go on to survive and live happy lives, but IDK, it just doesn't feel weird to me to refer to it as that. Maybe that's internalized whatever, but...

[(Anonymous)]

So... nobody said it was weird, but the secret implies it's cringeworthy? Sorry, going to have to agree with the secret. It makes more sense for the context of the time period, but I personally cringe at the implication that it's better for a woman to die than to survive a sexual assault.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt, but referring to rape as "a fate worse than death" is really cringe-worthy to me. IMO, it always reads as implying that the victim is somehow now tainted, hence it would have been better for them to have died than to live on in a damaged state. Obviously, this is NOT my opinion, but I think that's the historical context, and so I do cringe when I hear it.

[crossy_woad]

i suppose that makes sense. looking at it from the point of view of a person, i'm not very afraid of dying; i find other things lots more scary. i don't see victims as in any way at fault or tainted, but i guess some people do, which is fucked up. :(

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, that's how I hear it, too. Frankly the idea that a woman's virginity and sexual purity is more valuable than her life will never NOT be cringeworthy, even in a historical context.