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fandomsecrets2013-04-26 06:50 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-04-26 06:50 pm
[ SECRET POST #2306 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2306 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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06. http://i.imgur.com/oVNCgcT.png
[kind of porny, illustrated, Hetalia]
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[Pokemon]
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[ ----- SPOILERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]
09. [SPOILERS for Kingdom Hearts]
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10. [SPOILERS for Spartacus]
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[gore? kind of, i think, live-action]
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11. [SPOILERS for Game of Thrones]
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[ ----- TRIGGERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]
12. [WARNING for rape]
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13. [WARNING for child abuse]
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14. [WARNING for loli/shota]
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #329.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-27 02:38 am (UTC)(link)*Buffy Related Rant* --
(been meaning to get this off my mind for a while now ...)
I realized that Joss was maybe not as feminist as I wanted to believe, at the time, because of the episode "Helpless" in S3 ... which just pissed me off ...
That episode illustrated perfectly why I sometimes have a problem with the "kick-ass" kind of super-powered female heroes.
...because Buffy with her super-physical-strength is strong and kick-ass and can take on any number of dangers fearlessly and capably ... but once she loses super-strength, she what ... loses all brain-cells, loses all ability to think and act competently - even without the super-strength ...?
Throughout most of the episode, Buffy is portrayed as so pathetically "helpless" that you have to wonder if she hadn't gotten a personality transplant in addition to losing her "power."
Which for me -- broke the fourth wall -- because is that how women are seen in his and the other writers' minds ... that without super-powers or super-strength women are just so pathetically helpless and incompetent that they without fake, fictional "super-powers" they just aren't competent "heroes."
I hate that episode so much ... I just can't with all the excess praise he gets -- because for that and the way Cordelia was butchered ... I think it's all very, very unwarranted.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-27 02:59 am (UTC)(link)Let's be honest here, Buffy was always a bit of a dumb blonde with superpowers. When you've spent however many years relying on physical ability as your dominant tool in combat, to suddenly have it pulled away from underneath you and having to rely on other techniques and skills and abilities you haven't used in forever, then yeah, you tend to feel a little... well, helpless.
The other thing is that stuff doesn't really start going to shit until Joyce gets captured. If there's one thing that BtVS showed us over and over again, it's that Buffy's physical strength is as naught if she doesn't have the emotional grounding to back it up; as in Helpless, as in The Body (that final vampire? One vamp and Buffy's struggling like hell with it? That's what being an emotional wreck does to you), as in the attempted rape scene in Seeing Red (which, for the record, is precisely why it counted as attempted rape).
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-27 03:03 am (UTC)(link)Do you know how many people suffer breakdowns after losing a sense? After losing a LIMB? It's a whole bloody field of clinical psychology for a reason. People consider themselves worthless for quite some time if they're missing a piece of themselves.
She DID get a personality trait of her own psyche's making, in other words.