[ SECRET POST #2627 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2627 ⌋

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

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[Malcolm In The Middle, Everybody Loves Raymond, Home Improvement, Rescue Me, Prison Break]


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03.
[Michelle Kwan]


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04.
[Bear Nuts by Alison Acton]


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05.
[Supernatural]


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06.
[OP note: pic credit to Ksenia Nurtdinova]


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07.
[Seanan McGuire, Jonathan Ross and his wife Jane Goldman]


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08.
[Karen Gillian/Doctor Who]


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09.
[Mary Poppins (1964 movie)]


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10.
[El Goonish Shive]


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11.
[Noragami]


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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

whoa, really?

Though, tbh, I haven't really experienced much 'direct' sexism in my life... I'm very aware of it systemically and I'm sure it's affected my life in some ways, but I've not really had sexism directed at me by actual people. I've never felt held back by being a woman or anything. That's different from saying we don't need feminism, though. Just because I don't feel particularly affected doesn't mean that it's not a major problem...

I find it a bit hard to believe a beautiful actress on a big cult show like that hasn't experienced sexism, though (unfortunately.)

[fauxkaren]

I think that she is just... oblivious to it? Like I'm sure she's experienced sexism, but she probably just doesn't notice it.

[(Anonymous)]

Women like her get REWARDED. Sexism isn't this thing that is bad to all women, all the time, or women would never have put up with it. Gotta have the carrot and the stick, and Gillian got and went for the carrot.

[duaedesigns]

For me it was a background thing. Like.. you don't notice it until it's pointed out because it's normal.

Like getting interrogated on wearing nerdgear. That's a normal part of being a geek, right? You go out in a shirt and people come up and with a skeptical look go "So.... do you actually watch the show?" Until I started going out with my boyfriend and he got "Oh hey! I love that show too!" instead of "Do you actually watch it?"

[(Anonymous)]

I'm female and I don't even experience a lot of the things people say are normalized so we don't notice them. I consciously notice that they don't happen to me, after other women say they're a thing. If I wear something nerdy, the worst I get is a slightly surprised "Oh, you like that show?"

[diet_poison]

Overt sexism became way more apparent to me when I got seriously into a hobby that's ~98% male-dominated (though it shouldn't be). Also when I started spending more time online. (Those two things happened at around the same time.)

I'd noticed it before, but always assumed it was rare.

[(Anonymous)]

For me, sexism was something I only really started to noticeably experience in my late 20s. This is probably because I had been gaining more independence in my life and more responsibility and authority professionally, and all of that reached a point where I stood out to the type of people who are likely to be sexist. It's easy not to be sexist towards a woman whom you see as already lacking in power because she isn't a threat or someone who needs to be "put in her place." I think that's why it's easy to grow up thinking feminism is unnecessary and outmoded. Girls don't experience a lot of the types of sexism they may have heard about because they're children who don't have jobs and aren't trying to run for political office. (They may still experience a lot of harassment and sexual aggression, but I think it's easier to convince oneself this isn't related to sexism and isn't a feminist issue.) I've been fortunate not to experience a lot of direct sexism academically, professionally, in fandom, or among my friends and family, but it still crops up often enough with the public at large.