[ SECRET POST #5952 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5952 ⌋

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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 31 secrets from Secret Submission Post #851.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

06. https://i.imgur.com/tJk6tMa.png

[(Anonymous)]

Is cruelty to cats a thing in movies? I can't think of any movie where a cat was hurt, just dogs.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it used to be common, more.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes? Cats are getting run over quite a lot. Or they "sense" whatever the evil thing in a horror movie is and get killed/eaten by it. (Granted, those are not for comedy purposes)

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/does-a-cat-die

[sabotabby]

So common. It’s a huge turn off for me and I keep running into it in otherwise innocuous things like “Schitt’s Creek” (two or three cat deaths) and “Only Murders In the Building.” But also I remember watching “The Shape of Water” and s2 of “Stranger Things” in the same week and just. Ugh. It’s a cheap and shitty type of comedy/horror that I despise.

[dinogrrl]

Cruelty to cats in media is more commonplace than cruelty to dogs, and it's used frequently in offscreen or 'subtle' ways. Where cruelty to a dog is generally used to evoke anger towards the character who does it and pity for the dog/dog's owner, cruelty to a cat is often barely given a second glance--the person who performs it is generally not a 'good' character but there's not as much thought given to the cat/cat's owner who's the victim. It's a media trope to the point that that I'm not surprised you'd miss it if you weren't looking for it. It ties into the same trope that having a character who owns cat(s) is shorthand for showing they're mentally ill, or evil, or both.

Sadly it's a mindset that carries over into real life as well--casual mentions of harming or antagonizing cats happens way more often than with almost any other animal (snakes are a very close second).

(I'm a vet tech and I work exclusively with cats, this is a topic that comes up surprisingly frequently at various CE conferences I've been to.)

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, cruelty to cats in movies or shows (played for laughs) usually involves the cat spinning on something and screaming/yowling the way cats do, when it goes flying. Imo, the reason I've laughed as a kid was because the cat was always alright in the end. Like they show the cat landing on all four paws and walking away. However as a kid, anything being "yeeted" out a window was hilarious.

[(Anonymous)]

there's a popular 80's christmas movie where a cat is electrocuted and burnt up. i saw it as a kid and it upsets me to this day.

[(Anonymous)]

that's not nice.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, we're clearly talking about fiction. And kicking the cat to get a funny offscreen yowl is one of comedy's oldest gags.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a repeat.

[(Anonymous)]

No it's not? it's a comment secret.

[(Anonymous)]

From when?

[(Anonymous)]

nasty today, aren't we.

[(Anonymous)]

oh fuck off

[(Anonymous)]

I can’t stand either and it makes watching stuff really difficult ):

[(Anonymous)]

Stay away from my cats.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, do we really think that OP is going to hurt cats in real life??

If someone made a secret about like, enjoying killing people in FPS video games, would we be making tons of replies about wanting them to stay away from us because we don't want to get murdered?

[(Anonymous)]

I was thinking that's not much of a secret and then I got to the last sentence. Oh yeah, I see why that's a secret.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, so you're like... a HUGE asshole, got it.

[(Anonymous)]

I generally don't like cruelty towards animals in movies when it's a cheap way to get the audience upset or used as short hand to show how evil someone is. I have no problem with cruelty towards animals in movies if it's central to the movie or a critical narrative moment. YMMV for where the line is between these things though.

[(Anonymous)]

people's attitudes toward animals says a lot about them as a person.

i'm glad you're not one of my people.

[(Anonymous)]

I hate cruelty to both. Or any animal, honestly.

(Self-defense against animals like bears attacking something is a different story than abuse of course. Especially if the attack was unprompted. I don’t know why I feel the need to say all this.)

[(Anonymous)]

that’s not food it’s bait