Board Thread:Spoilers/@comment-96.228.137.74-20160311185338/@comment-16845200-20160506012143

"something that I have seen quite a bit throughout the fandom"

here's the gist:

if you're referring to what you said before about people being mad about lexa dying because she was a lesbian, then i don't know where you're looking. can you link me or something? bc what i've seen is that people are mega infuriated over the way she was killed off.

lexa was a lesbian, yes, and her death played straight into a toxic lgbt* trope. also, an average of one wlw character has died every week this year so far. that's around 20 weeks and around 20 dead wlw characters, and there weren't that many to begin with. that's what people are pissed off about - the thing that's currently happening has branched off far beyond from just lexa. it's about getting better treatment for lgbt*/poc/minorities in the media. no one is saying these characters shouldn't be killed off because they are lgbt*/poc/a minority, but given the cheap and reckless way that so many are being killed off...this is an issue.