[ SECRET POST #153 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #153 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 01 page, 08 secrets from Secret Submission Post #022.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Friday, June 8th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[halevy.livejournal.com]

1. FUCKING YES. Plus hating on non-existent/fictional characters is dumb. Hime isn't a character who pulls giant swords out and hacks her enemies to pieces but she's strong in a different way, it's just at the moment, she's conflicted with what she wants to do, what she can do and what she can't do.

She wasn't my favorite character until the end of the SS Arc. She developed so much in the time between the first Arrancar arc until her departure for Hueco Mundo and you know what? That takes guts. Her friends were in danger and the fact she didn't hesitate to say no to Ulquiorra shows she's not as "OMG LAME" as people would think. Chad, Rukia, Ichigo and Ishida (OKAY I DON'T KNOW ABOUT HIM LOL) would have done the same.

[halevy.livejournal.com]

Oh, lol, I don't find her perfect because she does have flaws but that's what makes me like her and other Bleach characters more.

[ew-younerd.livejournal.com]

Word! She has flaws and I can see why people wouldn't have her as a fave or be interested in her, but she doesn't really do anything to be hated or disliked. But then again being a really kind girl makes you a SUE. So does having a crush. So does...well, doing anything and being female basically makes you a Sue in fandom's eyes.

[ew-younerd.livejournal.com]

Also, lol, I'd like to add that Ichigo bores me and I think Orihime and rukia are too good for him and should run off together lolz

Or Orihime can just run off with Rangiku ;)

[halevy.livejournal.com]

RukiHime FTW.

[heron-advocate.livejournal.com]

I would say Hime & Rangiku should run off together, but I dunno if it's fair for the two of them to deprive the rest of the world of so much squishy boobie.

Therefore I'm torn.

[halevy.livejournal.com]

And also, for some reason, liking a soft-spoken, optimistic and kind female character makes her fans dumbasses and people who "don't know what true female power is".

[sevendials.livejournal.com]

I'm not in this fandom, but--

To me, part of the problem appears to be that a worryingly large number of fans appear to think that a 'strong, self-actualized woman' means one who is a bossy, casually physically abusive, misandrist uberbitch with anger management issues who nobody in their right mind would want to talk to, let alone spend any time with. Just check out the number of supposedly fiercely independent OFCs who act exactly like this and yet are praised by all comers, as well as by their authors, for being strong, independent women. Um, no. There's more than one kind of strength, and there's a big difference between being a strong person and being a bully.

Incidentally, I'm really getting sick of fans casually assuming that friendly, optimistic characters (of either gender, though the girls come in for far more flak than the boys do) are automatically idiots or doormats or both simply because they're friendly and generally inclined to look on the bright side. As if fandom didn't have enough antisocial walking wangst factories as it is!

[halevy.livejournal.com]

I love you very much for this. ♥ So much word!

[luzerna.livejournal.com]

You win the internet ♥

[heron-advocate.livejournal.com]

Amen. ♥

[crackjaw.livejournal.com]

HI

I think you already know how much I love Orihime, so I'll just say word? ANYWAY on the other hand it's perfectly okay to dislike a character of course, but senseless bashing with no foundation is just...dumb.