[ SECRET POST #2082 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2082 ⌋

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

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[Fate/Zero]


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05. [SPOILERS for Journey Into Mystery/Everything Burns]



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06. [SPOILERS for Avengers]



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07. [SPOILERS for Sweeney Todd]



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09. [WARNING for depression/suicide]

[Wilby Wonderful (2004)]


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10. [WARNING for abuse]

[True Blood]


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11. [WARNING for rape]



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12. [WARNING for suicide/self-harm]

[Alex Gaskarth/All Time Low]


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13. [WARNING for abuse]



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14. [WARNING for abuse/bullying]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #297.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ],.
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[nyxelestia]

The problem isn't the existence of this kind of media, but the lack of mass media literacy. Kids aren't taught from early on that "just because it's fun in fiction doesn't mean it's a good role model of reality". If they are taught that at the beginning - as many kids are, just by virtue of being in reality often enough - then they are fine. It's kids whose realities are similar to the media in a negative way or kids who just live off media and don't realize how wrong/not-real-life it is that become the problem.

Honestly, shit like this needs to be taught in schools. Save the intricacies of advanced mathematical concepts and literary analysis and shit for later, kids have been watching TV and movies and other crap from birth. Once they hit school you're already behind, and the fact that some kids don't get taught critical thinking in a way that applies to media until high school or college (if ever) is probably what's screwing us up so much in the first place. >.<

/rant

[darkmanifest]

This is so damn true. It'd be great if people learned from an early age how to examine media subtext and verify data independently, and it'd be even more effective to do by using topics they're already interested in. But there's this attitude that there's nothing useful to be learned using mass media and therefore it should be ignored, forgetting how impossible that is. Either we'll be taught how to take it apart or we'll absorb it without even realizing it.

[nyxelestia]

To be quite frank, most kids are watching a lot more TV, video games, movies, and other media than they are reading books. I mean, we can wish all we want that they read more, but they don't and ignoring that will only lead to them having no clue how to parse through the media they are absorbing the most and eventually losing taste for the one form of media they are being taught to analyze.

[silverau]

This is a good comment.

My mom always liked to analyze media for the messages it was sending, and though she usually didn't act like she was consciously trying to teach me, I think it did me a lot of good. If I ever I have kids you bet I will be analyzing their ears off about the shows they watch.

[nyxelestia]

I think I got lucky in that my 6th grade teacher taught us quite a bit about 'behind-the-scenes' production of advertising and movies and stuff. It was part of a health class, but it was taught in such a way that made many of us highly critical of all media in all contexts after that point.

It didn't seem that difficult for her to do. Why is this not a thing in our schools? :(