Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7971816-20160304031551/@comment-16845200-20160304045959

i'm probably going to sound incoherent but...

@TT i totally get that. i think i'm still going to continue watching the show - bc quite frankly the city of light stuff is rly interesting - but i'm still devastated. upset. and quite disgusted. i'm not even going to get into the indra/octavia thing and the controversy over ricky whittle, which quite frankly has made me uncomfortable from the moment he started tweeting those things.

but back to the point. the fact remains that lexa was a queer character and she was killed off. jroth made a comment about how lexa's sexuality factored into the choice to kill her off as much as finn's sexuality did, but.

that. is. not. the. point. does he understand that?

i'm sorry, but that is not the point. quite frankly, i'd be disgusted if someone explicitly said that jroth killed lexa off BECAUSE she's a lesbian. that's just a-rate bullshit. but this is about representation. the FACT REMAINS that the "dead lesbian" trope runs RAMPANT all throughout pop culture. look at tara fucking maclay. seeing red aired in 2002. it's 14 years later and wlw are still dying after they've gotten their ~moment of happiness~. that's not right. they shouldn't have done that. jroth and crew have been playing up on lexa for the ENTIRE SEASON so far. they literally gave all of us false hope. and that is just emotionally devastating. emotionally devastating for an entire community because bigots can't accept their sexuality. emotionally devastating for people who get kicked out of their homes because they're a boy who kisses boys or a girl who kisses girls. emotionally devastating for those who suffer from depression and anxiety because of their sexuality. emotionally devastating for people who want to see themselves represented and represented well in popular culture, in media that is exposed to millions of people every week.

and then their representation is killed. in. a. freak. accident.

so no, lexa dying because she's a lesbian is not the point. it was never about that.

it was about representation.

i'm not even going to get into the clexa aspect of lexa. lexa can stand on herself just fine. i would rather lexa have lived than clexa not have happened at all. the point is that lexa was a strong, wlw character who was literally the commander of an entire people. she had power and influence and she was strong. she was an inspiration, and sure, you've got amazing characters like raven reyes and clarke griffin, but lexa was inspirational in a different kind of way. i know that not everyone agrees with me but she was inspiring. from a purely objective standpoint, she was a lgbt character in a leadership position and she was, quite frankly, one of the more complex characters on the show as well.

and now...

it's just...

i don't know how to explain this.

and now i'm scared that the writers will get death threats. i'm scared that jroth will get death threats. which is something that should NEVER be happening. i'm exhausted. but lexa's death - the way lexa died - might be triggering enough for something like that to happen. there will be death threats, mark my words. and that makes me just as upset as the fact that lexa died.

i really hate people sometimes.