Talk:Lexa/@comment-26164766-20160401213210/@comment-16845200-20160402011438

you know, two other lesbians died on a cw shoe like last night? the vampire diaries? and apparently 2 others are slated to die next week (idk if it's on the cw or not though). great reputation you're building up there.

"This is why racism and homophobia is so different in the US than the rest of the world [...] You also have to factor in all the distinctly American historical connotations that play into those negative tropes (slavery, suffragettes, labor rights, civil rights, etc...). We are still fighting for these things that most of the rest of "civilized society" has already won and that is why people are still so outraged over Lexa's and now Lincoln's deaths."

THIS. THIS THIS THIS THIS. THANK YOU. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i just, it's always boggled my mind when people say america is "perfect and amazing and we are the protector of demOCRACY SO WE ARE THE FREEST!!! VERY BILL OF RIGHTS!!! MUCH CONSTITUTION!!!! WOW!!!" my friend, i truly envy your ignorance, but get a hold of yourself. have you ever even taken a u.s. history course? like, just look at the cold war - relatively recent-ish - and then tell me that america was being amazing to my face again. tell me we were trying to protect democracy and freedom. smh. (and don't get me wrong; i think that american history is one of the most interesting things to study ever, and we've done a lot of brilliant things, but still...we've also done horrible things. the way it's often taught? it's sanitized and practically propagandized in certain areas. no. no no no.)

but anyway, that's besides the point. look at the social issues that are currently running rampant through our society: racism in particular has always been a huge problem, and i would argue that this is what makes lincoln's death more hard-hitting - in a current sense - than even lexa's. (but of course, both are equally problematic, but i think that i've talked enough about lexa's death that i won't elaborate here.) because racism is what dominates talk about "discrimination" currently in america. homophobia is obviously a very real problem in our society, which i would also argue makes it more insidious in the long run than racism, but the fact remains that racism is overtly exhibited by bigots in this country and this world. racism actively permeates every aspect of our lives (which is exactly what lincoln's death was, btw). this is what usually pops first into the common person's mind when words like "discrimination" are hurled around. homophobia usually isn't even brought up in everyday conversation, if you get what i mean, whereas racism is far more likely to be. and ultimately, i would think that racism is an eminent social issue especially in america. don't even look at the nitty-gritty bits of real life yet; just look at like - okay, look at entertainment right now, since this is supposedly leading up to me talking about why lincoln's death was problematic, lmao. hollywood is still very much blindingly white (oscars, anyone?), poc are marginalized and stereotyped, and you've got shows like the 100 claiming they're the ~pinnacle of representation~ and then they pull crap like lincoln and lexa...dear god...no...you are not being revolutionary. you are CERTAINLY not promoting ~positive representation~, so don't even try to sell yourself as such. you are falling straight into line with the status freaking quo and it's not only revolting and disgusting, it. is. downright. demeaning. i can't speak for the black community given that i'm not a part of it, but it does NOT take a genius to realize that killing lincoln the way he was - execution-style, apparently, with a bullet to the head - is on NO level okay or respectful given america's aforementioned history. at all. anyone with half a brain living in the u.s. knows the history of slavery, knows the history of the civil rights movement, knows the history of how blacks have been treated and oppressed on a wider, longer, and more brutal scope than any other minority in the country. you don't have to agree or disagree with it (and jesus christ, if you agree with what has happened to the black community since the seventeenth freaking century...either you're a trump supporter, or you haven't educated yourself, so go and educate yourself!!!) but you would be hardpressed to not KNOW that blacks have been systematically and brutally oppressed and are still being oppressed now. they've been executed, they've been shot, they've been brutalized. like heck, forget about history; anyone who is living in twenty-first century america knows this. the string of police shooting young black men across the country has dominated many social issues reported on in the news for nearly the past two years, and lincoln's death was scarily parallel to that, and not in a good way at all. it was so...so insolent. lincoln was given NO respect whatsoever. they showed him lying in a pool of his own blood, which slowly spreading out from his head and bleeding into a dirty puddle. they showed a FULL BODY shot of that. they DEFINITELY could've done without it. like - and this is with me personally, i have never been too grossed out by excessive gore, but this was the first time ever i actually felt like i was going to throw up because of gore. and i didn't even see the actual scene itself; i saw .gifs of it, and i pray to god that i won't ever have to see them again. it was just a disgusting death. no respect afforded whatsoever. tf, lexa wasn't shown with a shot of her body with blood freaking pooling from her mouth/head into the bed beneath her like lincoln's did, and lincoln was ALONE in a freaking PUDDLE. WTFFF!!!! that bar set by lexa's death was already like 223562360 miles underneath the ground. YET, they somehow managed to barely limbo underneath that with lincoln. holy crap, that's just wrong. and to make it worse, they sensationalized it to the point where it just completely crashed through, set on fire, and exploded 7 atomic bombs on top of the line that divided "raising awareness to an issue" (and btw, the issue was apparently supposed to be something like paralleling the oppression of muslims after 9/11, which is just ??????? you completely missed the point there, buddy) and "blatant outright f***ing disrespect."

jason rothenberg and friends have been trying to sell the 100 is a show where anyone can die, and that is why deaths like lincoln and lexa have happened. because the world they live in is harsh and hard and it isn't pretty and anyone can die in a brutal fashion. and all i can think whenever this excuse comes flying out of anyone's mouth is, "jesus christ, you don't get it." and no, they have not gotten it. at all. by this point, i feel it's like the people behind the show don't know that their show does NOT exist in a vacuum. it does NOT exist in the world of the 100. it does NOT. they are broadcasting it to a REAL and LIVE audience. they are NOT simply telling a drama. they are responsible for knowing whether or not a death scene will cause hurt and anger in people who inhabit the very real world that their fictional show airs in. at the end of the day, what they choose to tell in fiction reflects in reality. and i don't think that they understand that, which is just...it's just bad. i can't put it any more simply. it's bad.

tl;dr: lincoln's death was gross and problematic on every single level imaginable, racism is not a fictional storyline, and historical context is very important.

(and also, just a note and something that's really been irking me since like a week after lexa's death: poc lgbt* people actually exist. what a frigging surprise. stop pitting minorities against each other.)