[ SECRET POST #2967 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2967 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I get being unhappy at gay characters getting fridged or being killed off because they're deemed expendable, but making them sacred and untouchable isn't really the answer if equality is what you're aiming for. In a well written plot, character deaths can serve an actual purpose.

Putting any group on a pedestal will feel just as artificial as using a group of people as literary cannon fodder.

[(Anonymous)]

In an awful lot of media, there's like one token gay character. It's pretty easy to just not kill that one character in the course of the story. Plenty of people don't die every day!

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. But the secret isn't talking about that specific instance, they're talking about gay characters getting killed, period.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree, but unfortunately there's rarely a "group" of queer characters in any given canon. When there is (e.g. Torchwood) I will keep watching after they kill some. Otherwise, nope. I have the same response to characters of color and female characters, too. Person of Interest killed Carter, but by then she wasn't the only female character or the only main character of color. I still hated that storyline, but I could hate it on its merits (or lack of) rather than it being personally hurtful.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you. I hate it when characters of my minority groups die but I won't hate something for it, especially if that character was well developed and the death wasn't cheap.

[(Anonymous)]

Except that OP hasn't said a single word about wanting narratives to flat-out stop killing queer characters. OP just said that OP personally refuses to watch it. Refusal to give something your own eyeballs--whether it's a trope or a genre or a medium or whatever--isn't in itself a rallying cry for its dissolution. I mean, I personally don't read doorstopper epic fantasy series; that doesn't mean I want other people to stop reading/writing/publishing it.