[ SECRET POST #4399 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4399 ⌋

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

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[Cassandra Clare & her books: TMI/TID/TDA]


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03.
[Doctor Who]


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[Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir]


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05.
[Charmed]


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06.
[Criminal Minds - season 4, episode 8 "Masterpiece"]


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07.
[Tidying Up with Marie Kondo]











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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I mean I wouldn't call it creepy, but I couldn't get past the first episode because I found her so unlikeable. The glued-on smile, the hokey little ceremony at the beginning, the thanking of inanimate objects, yuck. And I'm sorry to say the language barrier is also a bit jarring and off-putting in a show like this, where deep communication with your clients is as important as if you were their therapist.

It's a shame because I found the family and their plight in the first episode sympathetic, and I love watching those shows for the human aspect, and I'm sure I would enjoy the other families similarly, but I just can't get over my dislike for MK.

[(Anonymous)]

People doing things based on different cultural backgrounds sure is terrible and "yuck"!

[(Anonymous)]

So you're saying that glued-on smiles, hokey tidying ceremonies, and thanking inanimate objects is a distinctly cultural thing?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. Especially for the second and last points, look up animism in Japanese culture. For the first one: Look up smiling in Japanese culture as opposed to American culture.

[(Anonymous)]

My bad, I thought it was a dumb marketing ploy to sell books.

Anyway, she's no Niecy Nash, and if that's ~~~culturally insensitive~~~ idgaf tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

thanks for the hot take, brenda, enjoy the pta bake sale

[(Anonymous)]

Huh?

[(Anonymous)]

Look up Orientalism. You're doing it.

[(Anonymous)]

Those things don't have anything to do with Orientalism, nice try.

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt

It's quite amazing you throw -isms around even though you don't have a clue what you're talking about.

[tabaqui]

Huh. The first couple, to me, seemed like idiots, acting as if they were the only two people in the world with kids (not even babies, but kids old enough to walk and talk) and it was just so overwheeeeeeeelming...... Meh.

I didn't like them at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Their kids were nightmares. As a person who is voluntarily childless, I totally sympathized with them. I wouldn't last an hour in that house.

Obviously YMMV.

[tabaqui]

Their kids were only nightmares because of the parents, usually. If you don't ever set rules and have schedules for little kids, they tend to be wild as March hares and that's on mom and dad, not them.

I love my daughter, got through her baby and toddler years with a minimum of hysterics, but don't ask me to babysit or even hold your kid; most of them are spoiled monsters.

[(Anonymous)]

I had the opposite problem, I couldn’t get through the first episode because Mari is so polite and bright and traditionally demure, and the Friends were loud and self-absorbed and ignorant. As an American I was painfully embarrassed by them. Thankfully in the second episode the family was Japanese-American and it was much less abrupt, they knew a little of her language and customs and the difference in behavior wasn’t so jarring. I haven’t braved any others yet.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been seeing a lot of people on twitter pointing out the MK hate was mostly racist, and I think I can see why now. Thanks for that demonstration I guess.