[ SECRET POST #2177 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2177 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 058 secrets from Secret Submission Post #311.
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

[kallanda_lee]

Fair enough.

Though with me, at least in r/l conversations, these seem to be things that pop up in non-fandom related things too. For example, if someone hates black people, it usually doesn't take me a fandom discussion to figure that out.

With characters though, I sort of find it tricky - do they hate them *because* they are female/POC/LGBT - or do they hate a character that happens to be female/POC/LGBT for other reasons. For example, I have a gay friend who dislikes Kurt from Glee (if you know that). Sure, it might be internalized homophobia, but upon talking with him, it seems that one of his main issues with Kurt is his choice in songs. Whether that's all there's to the story - only he knows, of course.

But what I mean is, sometimes it's difficult to find out what exactly a person's issue with character is, and it's easy to jump to conclusions.

Granted, I would be suspicious if someone would systematically dislike characters that belong to a specific minority, though.

[dazzledfirestar]

But we're discussing fandom specifically here, due to the secret. I'm well aware that it can be easier to pick up on people's prejudices in real life and I probably personally wouldn't bother continuing a conversation with such a person, let alone bring up fandom.

Yes, and I'm not saying I'd hate someone the instant they say they hate Character A. I have not once claimed that here. But if someone is using questionable language about that character, mocking stereotypes that could be applied to that character, etc then, yeah. I'm less likely to give them the benefit of the doubt.

For example, if someone said "Ew, Black Widow! What a slut!" and when I asked why they thought that, they continued on that vein, I'm not going to want to continue talking to that person.

It's just as easy to not be offensive when expressing a dislike for a character.