[ SECRET POST #2443 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2443 ⌋

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

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02.
[Sailor Moon]


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03.
[Taken]


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04.
[Hetalia]


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05.
[John and Edward Grimes/Jedward]


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06.
[Zoolander]


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07.
[X-Files]


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08.
[Amanda Palmer and Paula Deen]


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09.
[Once Upon a Time]


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10.
[Corporal Rivaille from Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 035 secrets from Secret Submission Post #349.
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

[ariakas]

I think I would have loved Taken if it had been about the kind of human trafficking that actually happens (exploiting impoverished young women/children and their families to sell to affluent buyers) instead of the fantasy brown-guys-are-stealing-our-womens (kidnapping wealthy women from the first world). As it was this was almost as fucking appalling as Call of Juarez: The Cartel.

But then, Liam Neeson shooting white male tourists in Thailand for fucking 10-year-old Asian girls sold into sexual slavery by starving parents wouldn't be as flashy as capping terrorists Arabs Muslims generic brown people for deflowering White Womanhood (you know, if there was anything left to deflower - the non-virgin they detected with their imaginary magical virginity detector was tainted and thus unworthy of rescue).

[wldcatsprstr_14]

Fucking this.

[(Anonymous)]

It was an action movie, "just entertainment," not meant to teach anyone about real life issues; and I know a big part of the draw for me was that he was rescuing his daughter. But watching the movie, and enjoying it, also made me (and maybe other people??) start thinking about this issue. You've clearly thought about it a lot, and that's a good thing! We all need to take this seriously because it's a big problem. Hell, it's too big a problem if even ONE person is still enslaved in this world.

[ariakas]

Something being "just entertainment" in no way whatsoever makes it exempt from social criticism. Particularly as it perpetuates (like The Cartel) the harmful myth that the "other" is responsible for stealing "our women"; continuing to stoke bigotry when in fact it's us exploiting their women and children.

Taken didn't make me "think" it made me despair for humanity that this kind of bullshit goes on, and is written off as something "the other" does, not the heroic white man. If anything, it made other "think" that this is exactly what goes on, not the reality.

Oh, and saving his daughter? Really? The most been-done trope since saving a wife/girlfriend? "Man saves helpless woman sexually related to him" was a draw for you?

[(Anonymous)]

Or how about the kind of problems that actually occur for migrant sex workers, the vast majority of which are not trafficked but are trying to support their families the best way they can? Or how about removing the salacious element and focusing on the much more prevalent sorts of labor trafficking--domestic labor trafficking, agricultural labor trafficking, mining, etc.