[ SECRET POST #2643 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2643 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 075 secrets from Secret Submission Post #378.
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

Re: Classism in fandom

[(Anonymous)]

People called me uneducated and stupid in one of my secrets just because my grammar wasn't good. I'm still not sure which parts were where I failed the "educated" mark but I have a Masters, I'm not uneducated, I just struggle with writing because I want to a subpar school and didn't learn about essays until my second year at uni. I've worked really hard at getting better but I'm never going to be perfect because I missed all the younger learning stages and have to try as an adult.

It just hurt my feelings a bit that out of my whole secret all the comments were about how I must be uneducated and immature because of how I typed...

Re: Classism in fandom

[(Anonymous)]

I hope I never made such comments, but if I did, I'm so sorry. There was a time it probably would've been me, and I'm not proud of it.

I think people need to stop making those assumptions, and they also need to consider the fact that they probably wouldn't make fun of someone to their face, so why online?

Re: Classism in fandom

[darkmanifest]

I really don't like that that happened to you. This is why I never get on anyone's ass about how well they do or don't write (if they don't get on anyone else's ass about it, that is) so long as I can understand them. They don't need to have a "good excuse", like English being their second language or having a learning disability (wow, now when I think about how often people even ask complete strangers about that like they deserve an explanation for imperfect grammar and spelling, it's pretty absurd).

Re: Classism in fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, when people say "your an idiot" to people for expressing opinions on the internet, I get on them because they kind of deserve to be taken off their pedestal and have that pointed out to them.

I think part of the problem is that in some fandom circles, the only people who don't write well - and who even use a lot of CAPS LOCK and netspeak - are very young members who never seem to last and trolls. I used to belong to circles like that, so when I came across people who did those things, that's how I responded to them. Of course, I was going through my own stress and feelings of inadequacy at the time, which I'm sure was unrelated. I wish I could apologize for being such a snooty twat to innocent people who hadn't actually done anything wrong.

Re: Classism in fandom

[darkmanifest]

Fair enough, if someone's gonna be nasty, then their writing is fair game, but I hate seeing it directed at people who are not doing anything worse than forgetting to punctuate. It's definitely one of the more prevalent forms of classism I see online.

Re: Classism in fandom

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yes, exactly. Leave people alone. They made a mistake.