Talk:Lexa/@comment-27729530-20160305013541/@comment-16845200-20160305193733

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..................are you kidding me 8)))

first of all:


 * Except they made it about her sexuality the moment they killed her in the exact same way as Tara Maclay.

^^^^^^you want a less-than-20-words answer, just read that over and over again until it gets burned into the folds of your brain.

i've refrained from getting into this debate more than i did in the thirteen thread, but. these are really beginning to get on my nerves.

Lexa's character was beyond her sexuality.

'''yes. you are 163% right. lexa's character was more than her sexuality.' lexa was powerful, intelligent, strong, agile, beautiful, commanding, strategic, and that's what makes her so special.'' she can never be replaced - least of all by, i don't goddamn know, ontari or someone. like to me, there will never be another Heda, with a capital h, other than lexa. i doubt that if clarke got into another female relationship it would have even half the impact as clexa did: lexa was so, so special. part of the reason why the outcry has been so LARGE with her death was not just because of her sexuality, but with who she was. for instance, "lexa deserved better" trended worldwide on twitter for 10 hours straight yesterday.

yes, yes, and YES: lexa was more than a lesbian.

.........BUT she was a lesbian.

They didn't kill her off because she was LGBT

of course they didn't. anyone who says that is an idiot.

but you're completely missing the point. '''that. is. not. the. issue.'''

she was.

a lesbian.

let me repeat that again: she was a lesbian. that is as much of a part of her as anything else is. she was a lesbian who was killed by a bullet 2 seconds after she was shown being happy.

i can already list 3 other lesbians off of the top of my goddamn head who have suffered the exact same fate as her. and that's discounting gay characters.

what the hell. does that say to you.

And she has had more relationships with women than men

9_____9

what happened to those women?

niylah got beaten within an inch of her life after having sex with clarke. lexa died. and also: you complain about no one "questioning" clarke? are you watching the same show i am? apparently, no one has brought it up. allow me to: clarke herself has suffered through the death of her father, mount weather, and two of her lovers dying, and she couldn't save either of them even though she was right with them when they died. you can only imagine how much more of that baggage she can go through before her emotional psyche just gets damaged beyond repair. i don't even know how she's going to get past lexa right now. you can say that those are all because of ~circumstances~, but at some point, a pattern begins to emerge.

"The sad thing is that people are seeing Lexa as just another gay character."

"another gay character"??????????? 8))))))))))

let me offer you some cold and hard statistics: 4% of all characters in pop culture are lgbt. that means the other 96% are totally straight. there aren't all that many ~another gay character~ to go around.

listen. i can count on the fingers of one goddamn hand how many ~gay characters~ get some semblance of what the population likes to call a happy ending. guardian mentioned that only four lgbt characters have had happy endings in the last 19 years worth of movies. do you know what that means? do you know how impacting that can be?

to put it in a real-world context, when is the last time you heard of someone killed in real life because they're straight? uh, never. whereas homophobia-related crimes are being committed every f*cking day across the country. so since reality is so discriminatory against us, we turn to the slightly-better alternative: fiction.

but obviously, even that is tainted.

''the lgbt community. practically. never. gets. a. happy. ending. and the media reinforces that idea.'' lexa is HARDLY the first gay character to suffer through this ~bury your gays~ trope. repeat this same old message year after year and you might start to understand how this could even begin to affect the lgbt community. there were literally masterposts circulating around listing lgbt suicide hotlines after the airing of 307 because this is how much her death affected the lgbt community, because she was gay.

watching her get shot and then die literally 2 minutes after she a) she was shown being happy for the first time in like...ever and b) realized she had a chance with clarke (whom i would argue was the love of lexa's life) really f*cking hurt. i won't even try to describe how much it hurt. there are literally no words.

look: the wrath over lexa's death spans FAR beyond her. it spans over 2 decades of systematic, covert discrimination - and in some cases, not so covert. i hate to reduce it down to "straights" and "gays," but here's the hard fact: straight people can literally turn to any other tv show airing and get deeply invested in another straight relationship should something happened like it did to lexa. can you say the same thing about the lgbt community? who, i repeat, is only represented 4% of the time in pop culture?

that's what people are pissed off about. i...i don't know how to put it more clearly. i don't. i really, really don't.

if you can't understand that, then don't even try to talk about it.