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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-07-19 06:17 pm

[ SECRET POST #3485 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3485 ⌋

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[personal profile] morieris 2016-07-19 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Every so often I'll come across a kid with five pages of an 'about me' and one of those is dedicated to whoever they 'kin' with, and rules like "don't follow me if you are also -kin to this character.'

it's easy enough to ignore but it's pretty strange to me.

(Anonymous) 2016-07-19 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah thats pretty strange. At the end of the day though, they're still just a bunch of dumb weird kids playing pretend, so I always end up ignoreing them and forget about them entirely by tomarrow.

(Anonymous) 2016-07-20 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it's a pretty interesting symbolic condension of identity. There are so many modes of existing in our digitized and globally connected world that stereotyping is sometimes necessary, or at least convenient to communicate. Decades ago, saying "I'm a woman from France" would have served as a starting point to let another person know who you are. With National identities and Gender roles diversified like they are today, aligning oneself with fictional characters that are well known in your demographic is simply more practical and economic.
"Don't follow me if you're kin with Spongebob" is the equivalent of "I don't like roman catholics so don't bother."