[ SECRET POST #153 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #153 ⌋

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

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Notes:

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]

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. ♥