[ SECRET POST #4042 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4042 ⌋

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

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02.
[Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins]


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03.
[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]


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04.
[Mickey Rourke (and Kim Basinger even though the secret's not about her)]


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05.
[Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero]


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06.
[Welcome to the Ballroom]


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07.
[Crazy Ex Girlfriend]











Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

We obviously don't watch the same shows because I've never seen this storyline.

But in books I've found it's fairly common for a man to find out he has a long-lost son. It's a fairly similar trope, if you think about it.

[(Anonymous)]

*or daughter

[(Anonymous)]

*actually, TV too.

Dexter popped into my head and I know there are others.

[(Anonymous)]

Two hugely popular shows that have done it were Big Bang, where Bernadette wanted to put her career first until suddenly she didnt... and Walking Dead, where Lori was presented as a bad person because she didn't want to be pregnant during the Zombie friggin' Apocalypse.

[(Anonymous)]

How has Bernadette not made her career a priority, though? And having kids was something that she and Howard discussed repeatedly.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not saying the writers didn't try to support/justify the change, but it's still an example of a rare female character explicitly saying she didn't want kids, then having them anyway because audience expectations; as opposed to it being acceptable to depict a young, successful, wilfully childless couple.

[(Anonymous)]

She didn't want them. Her manchild husband said he had to have them. She had one and didn't want to go back to work because BABY. I didn't watch when I found out she was pregnant again next season. That's not her prioritising her career nor Howard stepping up to do most of the caretaking.

[(Anonymous)]

Bones is another example. Brennan went from happily childfree to having kids.

[(Anonymous)]

Bones was the first example I thought of too, ugh