Hey, I still like the 100 a lot! I’m not really upset in particular about the 100 and Lexa, just sad that it’s just another addition to the list of X trope. I agree that minorities on TV shouldn’t be too protected, and if there were more characters from underrepresented groups, likely no one would be upset if they…

I’m with you as a (probably) asexual. I knew she was going to die because of her contract, but I wanted Lexa to die in an epic GOT-style way, like by a Red Wedding style assassination or maybe in the middle of an amazing battle. NOT die right after Tragic Lesbian Sex for Tragic Lesbian Death (TM).

I’ll make a tombstone for “Well OF COURSE the Token _____ In The Cast Dies!”

No, Person of Interest put their queer ship front and center and then mysteriously CBS can’t find a place for its half-season anywhere on the schedule. Meanwhile, stay tuned for yet another Criminal Minds spinoff (starring the guy from CSI Spinoff 3), probably another NCIS, CSI: Cyber, and more TV shows based on…

God bless Person of Interest, who was tasked with taking their “kind-of-maybe-subtext-gay” lady out of the show for either a handful of episodes if not permanently. They not only took the opportunity to establish that the subtext was real, they went out of their way post-shootout (and maybe post-Sarah Shahi telling…

Thank you for making this comparison. It is infuriating to me that they couldn’t even bother writing Lexa her own death scene- hit by a bullet meant for someone else in the same room she just had reconciliation sex in? If I wanted to watch Tara Maclay’s death scene again, I could’ve pulled it up on Netflix.

Agreed - the article already had several examples, don’t see a reason for it to be solely attributed to Whedon. And from the season, Willow was the one who had to lose it, so guy or girl, the SO was gonna die.

FINALLY a reviewer who doesn’t just skirt around this like “welp it happened too bad so sad it was inevitable.” This show blatantly manipulated its publicity and audience into believing it was progressive and ground-breaking and then fell back on the most cheap and regressive trope possible.

As soon as it started looking like Lexa and Clarke will reconcile I knew this was where it was heading (also because Alycia was on another show). You should never be a love interest on this show - Maya, Bellamy’s girlfriend (who was there just to die - we hardly knew her name), Raven’s engineer guy. I’m afraid Lincoln…

“Pulls a Whedon” is a terrible thing to call “Dead Lesbian Syndrome”.

hey now, this article was a little off kilter. I will have you know, Whedon has nothing against gays, he’s an equal opportunity betrayer.

Yeah, that trope needs to die before 2020, so we can put some strong decade boundaries around when it was a thing.

100% endorsed. I’m a Sanders supporter, but this is the correct answer. Electing Obama didn’t End Racism or anything like that, but it is proof that getting involved in the system can work. You can get elected and you can make a difference once you do.

Please do elaborate on my interests? Because Income inequality isn’t fixing racism and the supposition that it will is ignorant as all hell. Like it’s literally infuriating. As is the fact that Sanders voted for the same crime bill that they like to throw in HRC’s face. I’m old enough to remember the crack epidemic…

I’m black and voting for Hillary. #SorrynotSorry. I don’t find this condescending at all. Why don’t you get in government IS the right answer. I’m so tired of all these whiny people running around complaining all the politicians are in someone’s pocket or are “UNAUTHENTIC” . GO BE A POLITICIAN Then. That’s an…

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This makes me sad... And as is the with all “fad” pets I’m sure a great many of them are purchased by idiots who couldn’t care properly for a paper bag.

Well, that’s the most depressing thing I’ve read today. I feel even worse for these little guys than for their larger, captive cousins, because tiny mammals don’t do well when they annoy people.