[ SECRET POST #1549 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1549 ⌋

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

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[Salad Time Soldiers, Sera Myu]


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[Michael Flatley/Lord of the Dance]


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[loco-roco]


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[xxxHOLiC]


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[Hawaii Five-0]


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[Rango]


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[Matched]


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[Dune]


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[Bleach]


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[The Beatles, Madonna]


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[Penny Arcade]


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[Lee Pace and Matt Bomer]


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[Marriage Reg (with Larry David, Madonna, and Ricky Gervais)]


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[Bollywood]


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[Charmed]


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[shemusic]


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[Pokemon]


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[Thunderbirds]


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[Raising Hope]


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[Nana to Kaoru]


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[Team Fortress 2]


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[SPN]


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[This is England]


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[Rome, Dissidia: Final Fantasy]


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(Vampire Weekend/Arrested Development)


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[Trailer Park Boys and Perfect Strangers]


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[4chan]


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[Tangled]


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[Tsubasa Chronicle]


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[Kyo Kara Maoh!]


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[The Spoony Experiment]


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Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the anon complaining about the missing gay people. I don't think it's the same as in Twilight- even though none of the named characters are gay, it makes sense that a gay person could be a vampire. Gay vampires would fit into that world even if she didn't put them in there, so I'm not going to wonder about the gay vampires. It's not that I like Twilight, or think it's a great piece of literature (or a very inclusive one) but the universe itself didn't strike me as bizarrely exclusive. There could have been gay people next door for all we know.

Matched, I believe, is set in the future. The people in that world would know about queerness, and generally what dystopias do is keep the people happy, but hide that there's some huge level of control going on. Why wouldn't a dystopia be keeping its queer citizens happy as well? It worked in The Giver, because nobody had sexual or romantic feelings of any kind, but in Matched the hormones are pretty much flying and nobody seemed displeased at all that the only options were straight or nothing. (There also seemed to be no non-secret-teenage relationships that weren't due to the matching system.) If there were gay people in this world, they'd be really screwed over. So I wondered, was there some kind of genetic engineering to get rid of gayness, or was the society so heteronormative that nobody could even talk about it... both of which would be bad things, and made me look forward to the reveal of how much this place sucked. But the author didn't really even seem like she thought this was bad. The world itself was anti-gay, and it was never really explained in the text.

[(Anonymous)]

Just finished reading the book so thought I'd throw in my view on the matter.

It's pretty clearly a heteronormative society. Bet you that the people in the Society don't even know that there are other options than straight. The Society has them geared up for straight and straight only. Why? Because they care largely about genetics and breeding stock.

Hard to genetically manipulate the next generation if a match can't have kids, right?