[ SECRET POST #2638 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2638 ⌋

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

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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not. I mean, I have no bone to pick with them as I don't know enough to have any stance, but slapping some footnoted numbers on an infographic does not persuasive statistics make. And when you look at the footnotes, their data is coming from a pretty deeply flawed source, and they're presenting it with no contextual explanation to help people understand where these supposed percentages are coming from. They've in fact (deliberately, I imagine, given the stated goal of the organization) cast the "data" in the light that makes it most inaccurate and most eye-grabbing.

Sorry. I hate dishonest manipulation of statistics, especially when it weakens an important point by making it look like the truth has to be massaged because it doesn't actually support what's being claimed.

Re: Walking distance

[lunabee34]

Yep. That's it exactly.

I'm sorry about your job, Anon. *hugs*

[gondremark]

I hear you, OP.
Myself, I have no interest in being a companion, I just want to be a Time Lord.

Re: Fandom Gaffes

[(Anonymous)]

LOL! I'm sorry, OP, I cannot help but laugh, because that is both funny and terrible.

[(Anonymous)]

Indeed. Men are far, far more likely to be murdered than women are, but the culture around it is different.

Re: Massive post about sexism incoming

[(Anonymous)]

Christ... they're men, they are experiencing sexism, it is directed at them, for being men. Why do you have to torture the definitions until you somehow win this? Why is this a thing you want to win?

Re: sa

[(Anonymous)]

Followup question, then: at what point do we decide that women do have institutional power? You would agree, I hope, that women have MORE power in society than they did fifty years ago? We're on the same page that that's a good thing, right? But it doesn't count yet, according to you. That's cool. At what point DOES it count? What's a metric we can hit?

[brooms]

i'm not sure it would translate well. poking fun at the medium is sort of its raison d'être and as a movie i think it would probably come across like those stale parody films.

[(Anonymous)]

It's always a little weird to feel like you can't relate to how your friends are feeling. When I was in college, all of my friends had just graduated. When I got my first job after college, all of my friends were unemployed and scrambling. When I got laid off, all of my friends found jobs. If I had a shit job, my friends had great jobs. If I'm on UI and looking again, all of my friends are over the moon and doing FANTASTICALLY. Money is tight again, and all I hear about is how awesome everything is for my friends--while they also complain about their staggering debt in the same breath.

Sometimes, you want nice things. Sometimes, you want people to not be shitty about money. And sometimes, you wish you could drag everyone down to your level. This is all normal. It's just a little annoying when you can't bond with everyone over your shared misfortunes and feel like you're in it together.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: Fandom Gaffes

[(Anonymous)]

Long ago, in the early days of the internet, I left a fic review which included a "sorry, didn't like this part because of [reason]". It wasn't flat out negative, but it did have the words "didn't like" in it. The author was so obviously CRUSHED that I felt awful. I had to leave several anonymous positive reviews on some of their other fics to try to make them feel better.

Before that, I'd always thought that people who wrote fic wanted to improve their writing. I didn't realize that some just wanted to faff about and have fun.

[gondremark]

It seems there're a lot of people out there who only like characters when they see themselves favourably reflected in them, and this has never made sense to me. Fictional characters aren't supposed mirrors or figures of the reader or author, they're supposed to be people, and supposed to be liked or disliked on their own (and their authors') merits.

I sometimes like and sometimes dislike characters who remind me of myself; identifying with them has nothing to do with it.
I like characters based on how they're written (and acted, if that's applicable). I like characters who're exceedingly and deliciously villainous, and who're wonderful role models, and who are interesting people. And if the work allows me to see a character's thought process, I'll like that character even more.
If a character reminds me of myself in a favourable way, that's great, but I don't automatically like the character more (though I might like the author more, in this case). If he reminds me of myself in a negative way, I squirm a little, but it doesn't make me like the character any less.

Re: Favorite fictional law enforcement officials

[blueonblue]

Too soon to say - anything could happen in the last episode.

Re: Favorite fictional law enforcement officials

[brooms]

i'd add mulder, eames and goren, but otherwise flawless taste.

[(Anonymous)]

And what is there beside the plot honestly. I mean the characters weren't that deep.

Um. I don't mean to be rude, but you're definitely not going to mix well with any other SH fans whatsoever. 'Cause that's, like, the antithesis of everything they love.

Little nitpick though: how would you know they would use it for *bank* robbery? The bank wasn't mentioned until far later in the story. The only way you'd know about that "three paragraphs in" is if you were subconsciously aware of this story through pop cultural osmosis. Maybe a lucky guess.

Re: How rich are you, FS?

[(Anonymous)]

I think in traditional terms, I'd be considered working class both in terms of income and the type of work that my job involves (both physical labor and office work) but in modern terms, I'd be middle class. I have no idea where the lower/middle cut-off is, though. These things really depend on who you ask. I can live in reasonable comfort with a savings cushion and no worry over how to pay the bills, but I can never afford to take vacations, I cannot yet afford to buy a house, and my retirement nest egg is rather small.

[gondremark]

And I don't get how identifying with a character has anything to do with the character's likability.
We like real people based on their actions or values and not on how much they remind us of ourselves, so why not like fictional people in the same way?

[agentofhate.livejournal.com]

Are you me?

Re: Favorite Les Mis song

[(Anonymous)]

"One Day More." I feel like that is just perfection, weaving everyone's storylines together in one piece.

I do absolutely adore "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" (especially when sung by Michael Ball), but "One Day More" is always my favourite.

I need a new show/fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Trying to get out of Teen Wolf and now that the season is over I'm planning on blacklisting it all on tumblr, but I think a new show/fandom would really help me break up with them for good. Suggestions?

Seriously open to any suggestions, tho preference for shows about actual adults (I am so over all this teen drama bullshit). Anything with character development or character driven and I lean towards live action, not animated shows. Though honestly open to pretty much everything all you gotta do is sell me on it.

[(Anonymous)]

I meant to make a somewhat similar secret because it surprised me how much people liked the movie over the book. The book has its problems, but the movie made me squirm with secondhand embarrassment in parts. Mostly Robert DeNiro's role and how ridiculously slapstick it was. :(

[gondremark]

This.
I read and watch fiction as a window into another world, not as a mirror in which to see myself.
I already know how I work; what's interesting is seeing how Our Intrepid Hero works.

[applemagpie]

Again, agreed. Because it's labelled as shounen, I think a lot of people tend to expect that it follows similar shounen tropes and narrative structures, but for the most part it really doesn't. And actually, with the way it's currently being told, I don't even see how Shingeki could stretch out to the same length as say, DBZ, without having to turn to a different story altogether. Because even if it's kind of marketed as such, the series isn't actually about fighting Titans. The plot is a lot more succinct than that.

[intrigueing]

You forgot the gorilla man. Also the pseudo-leprosy. Although that was somewhat mitigated by the sheer perfect of Holmes writing a story that ends with a lady dramatically fainting in the middle of Holmes's speech, after he spent the first four paragraphs of said story making backhanded comments about how overly colorful Watson's stories were.

[(Anonymous)]

I hear this a lot, but what are the exact statistics backing this claim? What studies do they derive from, and what research parameters do they employ? Do they survey a normal population of both sexes, or do they also take into account violence committed in the context of organized crime?

In any case, even if physical assault is statistically more likely to happen to men, that doesn't mean it's something women don't have to fear. You think a woman has nothing to worry about every time she comes home late from work? Walks through a "bad" neighbordhood carrying a handbag? Is alone at home at night? The fear of sexual violence is just the lovely cherry that gets added on top of this shit.