Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7971816-20160304031551/@comment-16845200-20160306175059

@NikkiNicks and Palantiri777:

Wow.

Wow.

Stop.

I have tried to be as clear as possible about this before, and I tried to be respectful, but I am really, really fed up with these completely ignorant comments about Lexa and her death's impact on the LGBT community.

I have articulated why Lexa means so much to the LGBT community time and time again and I am tired of hearing borderline homophobic comments being thrown out time and time again.

I don't give two shits if Lexa is your least favorite character. I don't. You can crap on her all you want, more than you are already doing. That is fine: that is your opinion totally. Hell, crap on Clexa all you want. You are entitled to ship what you fucking want to ship. I have crapped on many fictional characters. Just look at my blog post on Hakeldama.

Lexa is a fictional character. So crap on her.

Unfortunately for you, the LGBT community IS NOT FICTION.

You hating Lexa does NOT entitle you to goddamn attack THE FANS who loved her and related to her because of her sexuality. You hating Lexa does NOT entitle you to tell people to GET OVER IT.

Because people. Cannot. Just. Get. Over. It.

Lexa. Was.

A lesbian.

Let me repeat that again: Lexa was a lesbian. Do you not like to hear the fucking word lesbian or something? That is as much of a part of her as anything else is. She was a lesbian who was killed by a bullet two seconds after she was shown being happy.

I can already list three 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.

Let me offer you some hard statistics: 4% of all characters in pop culture are LGBT. that means the other 96% are totally straight.

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 nineteen years' worth of movies. Do you know what that means? Do you know how impacting that can be?

Or do you not care about this plight?

Because if you don't care, you SHOULDN'T be commenting about this in the first place.

Anyway, 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 fucking day across the country. So since reality is so inherently discriminatory against us, we turn to the slightly-better alternative: fiction.

Obviously, even that is tainted.

The LGBT community. Practically. Never. Gets. A. Happy. Ending. And the media reinforces that idea. Like MANY PEOPLE have pointed out before, Lexa is HARDLY the first gay character to suffer through the "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 "Thirteen" because this is how much her death affected the LGBT community, because.

Lexa. Was. Gay.

Watching her get shot and then die literally two 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 fucking hurt. On top of the fact that the entire funky scene STANK of Tara Maclay, I won't even try to describe how much it hurt. There are literally no words.

The wrath over Lexa's death spans FAR beyond her. It spans over two decades of systematic, covert discrimination...and in some cases, not so covert. (Look at your own comments.) 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? I...I don't know how to put it more clearly. I don't. I really, really don't.

You. Have. No. Right. To. Be. Telling. People. To. 'Get. Over.' Lexa's. Death.

You have no right.