Wonder how comfortable Hollywood is today with pointing a gun at a gay character. Tasteless now?

It was tasteless before, too.

Straights don’t seem to understand oppression very well. But they understand the concept of meanness. They know what is simply mean, and the loving ones hate that stuff when they recognize it. So here is my flawed but I hope useful analogy for OB regarding Delphine. The point here is not to make oppression more transparent. The point is to highlight the meanness here.

Let’s say I was born into a world where bunnies were raised for food by almost everyone. Most people had a few warm feelings about bunnies here and there, but that obvious, stark divide between bunnies and people always enabled them to feel fine about the fact that bunnies were really just food for people. Even when bunnies got a little love, that was more than their right. And when they died for people’s consumption, that was fine, just the way it is.

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Very well put here.

Sadly, I think those entitled persons who have no trouble making fun of us and what we love would just tell us (as some were saying yesterday), to just get over it. It’s their artistic right to have their fun, their way.

We’ve developed different values and since their values dominate, we’re the interlopers into their ‘culture.’ It’s kind of horrific.

Dear Show Runners:

If all you think lesbian/bi/trans women audiences want to see is a quick wlw sex scene or a few kisses and we’ll be happy and not care what else you do with our representation – please don’t write us into your stories. Don’t write us at all.

We’re not here to provide a little thrill then be discarded.

And that’s pretty much all you’ve ever done with us.

The next time one of you has an idea to use a lesbian/bi/trans character, you’d better make her the lead and you’d better do your due diligence over the portrayal of queer characters in media.

Don’t mess with the heads of at-risk kids and don’t waste the time of those of us who are older and more cynical and will never trust you anyway. Don’t pretend you’re creating something for us when you’re not.

Adding us into a narrative but not allowing us to be anything but tragic tokens and cannon fodder is your fantasy, not ours. Don’t involve us.

Thanks.

possibilistfanfiction:

idk in general im just rly fucking tired of this whole ‘we didn’t watch other shows’ n ‘we wrote a story to subvert this trope bc feelings were real & not subtextual’ weird rhetoric goin on like

if u r gonna write groups of ppl who irl are subjected to horrific violence & have historiographically been subjected to absence of narrative OR if there is a present narrative it has a terrible ending like

ya gotta be aware of the larger narratives bein told & mostly like

I don’t CARE if ur narrative made sense I don’t give a flying fuck if lexas death made sense narratively (lmao) or if roots death made sense narratively or even if it was written “well” u can write whatever story u want so like

stop writing narratives that make sense when a queer woman dies it’s not complex just,,,,,, wRITE A DIFFERENT NARRATIVE TELL A DIFFERENT STORY HOLY S H I T

Dear Entitled Straight Show Runners

Your fantasies about us are not our fantasies about us. Our reality is not reflected in yours. You get to see fantasies about yourselves everywhere you go. We don’t trust your take on us, we usually don’t even like your take on us. Stop using us if you’re not going to give us the same respect and representation you give yourselves.

And no, just because you sometimes kill yourselves off and make yourselves the villains doesn’t equal anything.

Your fantasies are not the same as ours.