[ SECRET POST #3741 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3741 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yikes @ everyone missing the point of the secret. It's not about BC's hurt feefees. It's about how so many people making fun of his name sends the message to the OP that there really are that many people who would very likely have made fun of the OP's name too. It rubs in how widely acceptable making fun of names is, and you're stupid if you think most people making fun of his name are only doing it to him because he's white and upper class and would never, ever do it to anyone else who might not be as privileged as him. I've seen discussions where people used "But I make fun of Benedict Cumberbatch's name too!!!!!!" to excuse themselves for making fun of other names in a racist way.

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[(Anonymous)]

Yes, very close. I have a perfectly boring normal name, and in first grade one child who didn't like me started making fun of it. It caught on, and suddenly all the children in my class did it as well. It was like the new sport or something. Soon they had four favourite variations of my name they cycled through at every opportunity. And then it got really weird when the teachers joined it wtf! At eight/nine year old that wasn't funny for me at all.

Later, at sixteen or so and with a bit more self-confidence, I managed to make it my own. I picked one of those four variations and started insisting on it, and even made myself a cool kind of "company logo" out of it that I started to use.

Benedict Cumberbatch might have come to the point where he couldn't care any less (I did watch that vid someone linked, where he admits it bothered him as a child), but I'm not so happy being reminded of my school years and people mangling my name.