[ SECRET POST #1620 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1620 ⌋


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


01.
[Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai]



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02.
[Hetalia]


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03.
[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]


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04.
[Michael Silas/Asiel Hardison, Lady Gaga's dancers]


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05.
[Tiger & Bunny]


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06.
[Evangelion]


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07.
[Zero Punctuation]


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08.
[The Catherine Tate Show]


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09.
[Grimgrimoire]


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10.
[wonderful days, guyver, cowboy bebop, texhnolyze, togainu no chi, black lagoon, samurai champloo, aishiteruze baby, tenjo tenge]


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11.
[X-Men: First Class]


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12.
[Tales of the Abyss]


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13.
[Human Target]


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14.
[A Song of Ice and Fire]


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15.
[Masterchef Australia]


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16.
[Sucker Punch]


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17.
[Mystique]


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18.
[Workaholics]


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19.
[Mark Reads]


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20.
[Jamie Campbell Bower ]


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21.
[Hey Arnold!]












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22. [SPOILERS for Homestuck]



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23. [SPOILERS for Gintama]



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24. [SPOILERS for Kamen Rider Kabuto]



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25. [SPOILERS for Loveless]



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26. [SPOILERS for Doctor Who]



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27. [SPOILERS for Mockingjay]



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28. [SPOILERS for Kung Fu Panda 2]

















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29. [TRIGGER WARNING for non-con]



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30. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]

[Game of Thrones]


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31. [TRIGGER WARNING for eating disorders]



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32. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]



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33. [TRIGGER WARNING for transphobia?]



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34. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]

[SPN]


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35. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape, pedophilia]



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36. [TRIGGER WARNING for eating disorders]



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37. [TRIGGER WARNING for self-injury, suicide]

[Manic Street Preachers]






Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #231.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Welcome to the wonderful and frustrating world of Japanese gender issues. It's always ham-fisted and far too naively presented when they do this stuff - the way I describe it is two steps forward, one step back. Yes, Gintama is touching these issues, which is cool, but it's touching upon them in such a clumsy way full of the misunderstandings the Japanese have about actual gender dysphoria and gender issues and in the end only serves to reinforce these stereotypes. It almost always ends with someone conforming to a gender role and being content that they have learned how to be happy as their born gender with some sort of half-assed explanation like 'I was scared to be who I really was so I hid from it'. I was basically just waiting for this to begin happening in this as well.

Occasionally this trope ends with them conforming incredibly strongly to the other side and being happy to finally live fully as the other gender, though that last one happens a LOT less. But there's definitely no grey area in-between and in the end gender stereotypes are rigidly reinforced.

[(Anonymous)]

It almost always ends with someone conforming to a gender role and being content that they have learned how to be happy as their born gender with some sort of half-assed explanation like 'I was scared to be who I really was so I hid from it'.

Except that that wasn't what happened in Gintama. Most of the time, Kyuubei still dresses like a man. She wears women's clothes when the occassion calls for it (swim-suit, when she's doing something girly with Otae, when Gintama's crazy plot demands it for the lulz etc.) and that's what makes her happy: that she can finally choose to be girly when she wants to.

[relmneiko.livejournal.com]

I can't help but grit my teeth a bit at the attitude towards Japan (and the implication that the West is ~so much more enlightened~) presented in this comment, because IMO Japan is pretty progressive on that tack, and they in fact see themselves as being more progressive than America. Name one famous American celebrity who is a transsexual. Having trouble? Here's a Japanese one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Haruna).

Forgive me if I'm jumping on you for this/making assumptions, but I am so sick of people feeling like they can point fingers at Japan (or really any Asian country, though Japan seems to be a common target here because of anime fans or whatnot) while simultaneously ignoring their own culture's flaws. So sick of people who haven't even been to Japan (making another assumption here, sorry, but other people do this) complaining about Japanese culture.