The Gay Left is very, very upset because fictional gay characters are dying fake deaths on TV shows.
Queer TV watchers, particularly female fans, are simply mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore. But instead of merely ripping open the window and howling out into the inky darkness as in that iconic Network moment, LGBT fans are organizing and coordinating to use their might to shed light on an ongoing and damaging issue.
In the past 30 days, four lesbian or bisexual female characters have been killed off on their respective TV shows. It began Feb. 22 on The CW’s Jane the Virgin with the murder of Rose (Bridget Regan). Then it continued with the high-profile killing of Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey) on The CW’s The 100. Next came Kira on Syfy’s The Magicians, and Sunday night witnessed the pointed demise of Denise (Merritt Wever) on AMC’s The Walking Dead.
The Gay Left is not very, very upset that real live gays are being systematically brutalized, jailed, and put to death by Mohammedan regimes like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar…
“In response to Lexa’s death and all the other LGBT character deaths, fans have come together in a remarkable way. Fans got the hashtag #LGBTFansDeserveBetter to trend for hours worldwide on Twitter the week after Lexa’s death to coincide with the airing of The 100.”
Isn’t that remarkable? A hashtag was trending for hours! A hashtag! For hours! Is there nothing these folks can’t accomplish? I’m sure Boko Haram will be bringing back those girls any minute, and the Iranians and Saudis are reforming their laws as we speak.
The Professional Gay Left(tm) is only upset since they were lesbians. If they had been gay men the PGL would be applauding saying, “…how brave of the producers to be willing to kill-off popular characters.“
Well, I can’t throw stones, since I quit watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer when they killed off Tara. Come to think of it, I quit watching Xena when they killed off Ephiny, I quit watching Charmed when they killed off Prue, and if I had ever watched Beauty & the Beast, I would have quit watching when they killed off Catherine.
Sargon of Akkad has already talked about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSaD8-_AnLE
Funny, equality equals equal chances of your favourite character dying.
Especially on the 100, or as I call it “Rooting for the Genocidal AI.:
The GLBT lobby wants to have their cake and eat it too. At first it was, “we don’t want gay characters to just be stereotypes, we want them to be treated like every other character.” Guess what, dearies? “Treated like every other character” means that, if a gay character is on a show where the writers spin a roulette wheel of doom every episode or two to see who’s getting axed next, that means that the gay character has the same statistic chance to die as all the straight characters. And if the means of death is really stupid (i.e., stray bullet a la the aforementioned Lexa), well, that’s just bad writing, not homophobia.
That the demand has gone from “treat gay characters like everybody else” to “you can’t kill off gay characters, that’s homophobic” tells me that the effort has gone from obtaining media inclusion to media dominance- or that media inclusion was just cover for an ultimate goal of media dominance.
Also- any time I hear people calling the inclusion of a GLBT character in a show “queer baiting,” I feel like saying, “Yes, they are writing a gay character into the show, i.e. giving you the inclusion that you want. Oh, you don’t like what the writers are doing with the character? Well sorry honey, you didn’t create the show, you are not the producer, you are not a writer. Your wishlist for the show means diddly-squat to the people creating the show. If the gay character doesn’t get into a relationship or gets killed, it’s not secret homophobia: it’s because the writers are taking the show in a different direction than you want, or they could just be bad writers. But everything bad that happens to you must be because of homophobia? Sorry, but you aren’t the special little snowflake that the universe revolves around. Yes, that means that there are people who aren’t spending their every waking moment obsessing over how best to please you. There, there.”
Less than 2% of the population becoming apoplectic about fictitious deaths. ………ROFLMAO
No, no, no…they would only be applauding if there were white gay men being killed off. Get it right!
As to the original post, thanks a lot for giving spoilers to shows I’ve yet to watch and didn’t even realize existed. Hopefully I will be able to forget them by the time I get around—maybe—to seeing them.
To most politically-committed lesbians we all look alike, so it really doesn’t make any difference.
Didn’t 1/4 of the hundred die in the first few episodes? I had to look up who Kira was but she wanted to die because she was confined to being a quadriplegic trapped in her own body. Someone dying on the walking dead doesn’t mean they cant still play a part.
Madmen.
A work of fiction traumatizes them. So sad.