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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-02-17 05:31 pm

[ SECRET POST #1872 ]


⌈ Secret Post #1872 ⌋

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

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02.
[Hobo with a Shotgun]


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03.
[That Mitchell and Webb Look]


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04.
[The Secret Circle]


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05.
[How I Met Your Mother]


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06.
[Les Miserables]


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07.
[Code Geass]


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08.
[Star Trek]


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09.
[Pound Puppies]


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10.
[NCIS]


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11.
[Mass Effect 3]


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12.
[Glee]


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13.
[Brave New World]


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14.
[Star Trek DS9]


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15.
[Brazil]


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16.
[Rob Liefeld/Ioana Spangenberg]


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17.
[Suzumiya Haruhi]


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18.
[A:tLA]


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19.
[Video Games Awesome!, Skyward Sword Long Haul]


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20.
[Toy Story]


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21.
[Being Human]


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22.
[G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra]


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23.
[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]


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24.
[How I Met Your Mother]


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25.
[Hetalia]


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26. [SPOILERS for Mass Effect 3]



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27. [TRIGGER WARNING for sexual abuse]

[Revolutionary Girl Utena]


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28. [TRIGGER WARNING for suicide]
[SPOILERS for The Hunger Games]



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29. [TRIGGER WARNING for non-con and sex between minors]



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30. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]

[Sherlock]


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31. [TRIGGER WARNING for shotacon]
http://i.imgur.com/JJapK.png
[linked for (censored) porny stuff]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #267.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - hit/ship/spiration ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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[identity profile] zombieroadtrip.livejournal.com 2012-02-19 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I have heard of intersectionality for oppressions that actually exist. There is no "anti-asexual" sentiment because, with the exception of small subsets of the internet, no one even knows you exist. And yes, that brings with it ignorance, but there is no unique asexual oppression.

Asexuality intersects with nothing because there is no privileged "sexual" class, nor is there an inherently oppressed "asexual" class. A woman gets told she "just needs to find the right guy" because of misogyny, and often at the same time because of homophobia, whether she's straight or not. A woman always needs to find the right man, because a woman is not whole without one. When an asexual woman says she's not interested in sex, the assumption is that she's a "frigid b*tch," because she's a woman who's not making herself sexually available to men. That is misogyny. Or she'd be assumed to be a lesbian, and equally-detested class of people. If an asexual man said he was not interested in sex, he'd be assumed to be gay as well, or accused of being a "p*ssy" because men are assumed to always be interested in sex and casual hookups. Not because there's a unique oppression against asexual men, but because patriarchal norms sometimes backfire on men, and they're expected to be highly sexual and emotionally dead. Women, the opposite. (Of course, women get a double whammy here because the ones without interest in sex are "frigid" and the ones with are "sl*ts" so...)

Outside of tumblr and livejournal, most of the world doesn't know asexuals exist, bottom line. There can be no active oppression against them if they are at best, not even heard of, and at worst, ignored. You are pressured with all the same pressures that affect "sexuals," the exact expectations for sex and relationships, the exact same sexism, the exact same gender binary, the exact same sex assumptions. You cannot claim oppression when your people are going through the exact same things other people are.

Frankly, it's insulting that you believe "sexual" people have these issues any easier because they're sometimes sexually attracted to people. The pressure to be sexual, and conversely, the pressure to be chaste at the same time is a dichotomy that oppresses us both. Hell, some people are deemed "too sexual," because they're more sexually active, should we create a class for them? Or should we assume that their discrimination is merely a result of our society's views on sex and relationships, on gender and gender norms, rather than a unique subset of "oppression?"