[ SECRET POST #2033 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2033 ⌋

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

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[Mortal Kombat]


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[The Young and the Restless]


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[Firefly, Joss Whedon; Sherlock BBC, Steven Moffat]


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08. http://i.imgur.com/Je2qV.png
[not really porny but implied underage sexual stuff; photomanip; snape/hermione]


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13. [SPOILER WARNING for Pokemon Black/White]



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14. [SPOILER WARNING for Kurau: Phantom Memory]



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15. [WARNING for rape]



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16. [WARNING for suicide]



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17. [WARNING for incest]

[Kono Naka ni Hikari, Imouto ga Iru!]


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18. [WARNING for animal death/abuse?]

[Eden Lake]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #290.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What was sexist about the way Sally and her friend were portrayed? I love Blink and I've watched it several times, the latter few times knowing that it's considered extremely sexist by a lot of fans, so I looked for the sexism and still couldn't find it. And I've never seen anyone say why they find those characters' treatment sexist, they just do. Period.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

For them.. well, let me cite an article here because I don't really have a ton of time right now:

It's the way women are written as if they have absolutely no control over what happens in their life at all - and they're fine with that.

[...] Throughout the course of the episode, while remaining quite superhuman in the way she deals with every obstacle, [Sally is] firm about her disinterest in her unwitting sidekick Larry. And yet, once the adventure's over, she loops her arm through his, all done with saving the world and ready to run a shop. No explanation.

[...] Her friend Kathy makes a similarly nonsensical choice, when the Weeping Angels toss her back to 19th-century Hull and she finds herself alone in a field with a boy named Ben:

KATHY: Are you following me?

BEN: Yeah.

KATHY: Are you gonna stop following me?

BEN: No, I don't think so.

And then - marriage. Just like that.

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There's also the fact that Sally has really very little personality, except to be superhumanly able to withstand all the pressure and stress she's under and do whatever she needs to, etc. and to of course, throughout the episode, deny that she has interest in the main male character of the episode. Then of course -- oh yeah, out of nowhere, they're hooking up! Of course!

As for Sally's friend, well. Girl is transported back in time. Girl is stalked by guy. Girl... marries guy out of fucking nowhere and dies happily married to him!? Oh yeah. Sounds like a great romance.

Basically all the romances in "Blink" are horrible and based on the idea that women don't actually know what they want. The female characters have no actual agency -- no matter what they say or do, no matter how little they want to be in a relationship with these men, they have no say in the matter. A relationship will happen anyway, whether they like it or not. The men will persist until they give in, because what, does that silly girl honestly think she knows what she wants in a man? How dare she presume. Etc.

It's a rather nasty, but more subtle than usual way of Moffat showing that he has no respect for female agency and doesn't believe women can know what they want, and that men should act in a way that supersedes what women SAY they want because they know better. This shows up time and time again -- but most notably in season five's finale, with Amy's forced pregnancy and childbirth and the Doctor keeping it from her for ages that she's actually NOT Amy.


(Sourced article: Why Steven Moffat Isn't All That (http://io9.com/5022250/why-steven-moffat-isnt-all-that))