[ SECRET POST #6447 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6447 ⌋

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


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02. [SPOILERS for Batman: Caped Crusader]




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03. [SPOILERS for Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now]




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04. [SPOILERS for The Umbrella Academy season 4]




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05. [WARNING for discussion of abuse]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of abuse]




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07. [WARNING for discussion of non-con/dub-con]
















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #921.
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

[(Anonymous)]

I'm 100% down to listen to someone complain about how they personally did not like something. Seeing some people go off about how much they, personally, blisteringly hate a show can be funny as hell sometimes.

But I'm so tired of being told that everyone and their mom should not like something that the poster did not like and how it's objectively bad and we all should be angry and ranting about it.

Someone said before on here a while back that fandom has lost the idea of "I" statements and I think that's largely true.

[(Anonymous)]

Or my favourite one of late: if you like this piece of media I did not like then you're a Bad Person, and I'll make up lies about how this show is Actually Problematic so it seems that you can't like it at all, because you don't want to be a Bad Person now do you?

[(Anonymous)]

The bitter, angry, vindictive part of me wants the tables to turn on people like that: for them to wind up liking something that others have decided are Bad, and for them to be attacked over it.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, this happens all the time, and then they're confused and frightened as to why they are suddenly being bullied when all they did was bully other people.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

That one's not "of late," anon. That one's really old, but people need to locate their sense of whether they're at peace with themselves somewhere private. Otherwise, complete strangers can and will yank their chain.

If a bad behavior is going around, what's supposed to happen is that people develop defenses against it. The abuse loses social legitimacy and becomes rarer because there's fewer easy targets. But I don't see people learning to protect themselves against this nearly enough, in fandom. And it's sort of a mystery to me that they don't, despite the fact that most of the accusations being leveled seem transparently frivolous and ill-founded. Are people really so eager to feel guilty? Or be shamed? It's not masochism, but I don't get what it is.

[(Anonymous)]

THIS. People need to understand that "I personally did not like this thing" does not equate to the thing being bad. Hell, there are some things I dislike that are pretty much objectively agreed to be good! But I didn't like them because they just didn't hit the right beats for me. That doesn't make them bad, it just makes them a thing that I didn't personally enjoy.