[ 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

[(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?