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fandomsecrets2013-07-16 06:53 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-07-16 06:53 pm
[ SECRET POST #2387 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2387 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 046 secrets from Secret Submission Post #341.
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.
Late reply is late, yep.
I see this attitude a lot in fandom, and I really don't understand it. Guess what, it's possible to be interested in something (or upset by a rumour about something) and find out the facts about it without having to actually subject yourself to that thing! This is why my friend knows a lot about Ancient Greek government without actually building a time machine to go back and live under it, and why I have never eaten kale but can conclude that the odds are against my liking it because I dislike spinach and three other types of greens.
I've never read 50 Shades, either, but I have read:
* reviews both positive and negative by people who have read it
* direct quotes from the text
* analysis by people who make a living analysing texts
* analysis of factors within the text, written by people who have life experience of same (BDSM, abusive relationships, sexual agency)
I don't think that my conclusions about the book are somehow invalid because I refuse to read it. NOT reading 300 pages of bad porn in order to determine that it's bad porn doesn't give me anything I didn't get from other sources; in fact, doing it the longer, less direct way meant I didn't have to read 300 pages of bad porn, PLUS I got to read some other great stuff - useful things like signs of an abusive realationship, thinky thoughts on tropes and female-directed romance, and even recs for good porn!
Re: Late reply is late, yep.