That's all cherry picki evidence to support a bizzaro-world thesis. It's like me saying we as a society have a problem with straight white people because we killed a billion Stormtroopers in Star Wars. It's not a real thing. It's fiction.

You need to hop off the conspiracy train because you're finding things that aren't there. You're looking too deep into it and getting wrapped around the axle about meaningless shit. That's really it. Nothing deeper.

Just like how I'm not mad that there's an underrepresentation of Armenians in the media because I know there's a grand total of like five of us.

And they are all Kardashians. That and the fat guy from Borat.

It's like me saying we as a society have a problem with straight white people because we killed a billion Stormtroopers in Star Wars

Wouldn't the stormtroopers be gay? We never saw any women or prostitutes on the death star, so unless they had a sexy holodeck, those guys had do be doing it navy style. And since they were genetically altered soldiers, and considering their service record, it would seem cruel to not alter them into gayety. So that's my theory, that I just made up just now.

There's a reason queer people are more likely to die and least likely to have a happy ending.

The reason is tokenism I'd imagine. Most minorities have the same issue. Of course like Evan pointed out, background characters get killed regardless, but when it comes to writing there are a couple of reasons why this happens.

1: Most writers are straight dudes. Which means that most writers only intuitively understand the issues of straight dudes, and their understanding of women, minorities, and LGBTQIA characters is strictly intellectual. That means those characters end up as supporting characters.

2: Most things are written for their main audience, which is usually going to be straight white men or straight white women. That makes is more expedient to make a straight white man and/or straight white woman the main character, because it'll be easier for the audience to directly empathize with them. This isn't to say that the audience hates minorities or gays, but rather they have less in common with them. That means that minority characters end up as supporting characters.

3: Traditionally you kill the supporting characters, not the main characters. Some writers know how to circumvent this, but most still follow that style where you have a few main characters who live and any emotional deaths you write are pulled from the supporting characters.

Of course this doesn't happen all the time, and there are things written with minorities in mind. And I do suspect that this rule is held up by Hollywood more than it probably needs to be and just for bland marketing reasons. But I don't think it is sinister so much as it is just plain profit-motives.

This is not to take away from the tragedy that happened yesterday. And though there are fuck-loads if reasons swirling around, and we'll be arguing about what to blame for a long time going forward, I don't think fiction is necessarily on the list of culprits.

The only immortal class of people are the Poles.

@Vilageidiotx I'm not blaming that exclusively. I'm a queer woman. I know all too well the various factors in all this crap.

That said I'm also not going to pretend how media treats non-straight white cisgendered male characters doesn't say a lot about how society thinks of those people. And it in turn has a influence on how we as a society think of these people. It's a beast that feeds itself.

I only used it as a example because of the recent outcry due to the constant killing of queer women on television. Not just side characters either. Main characters who happened to be lesbian or bisexual.

That's not even considering the amount of abuse the (mostly queer) fandoms get if they 'ship' a queer pairing. See: Once Upon a Time's Swan Queen fandom treatment by the Captain Swan fandom. It's not just a ship war, there are genuine malicious attacks that are homophobic in nature and often specifically attempting to harm the other person because they, for once, want to see a happy ending queer story.

There are a lot of factors but the recent systematic killing off of queer women on television, followed closely by a intentional massacre of this same demographic are related.

Even if it's just proof saying that this was a specific LGBTQIA targeted attack on my people.

>tfw there will never be a general in the US military as forever angry looking as William T. Sherman



y live

On that topic though, if one were to ever make a movie about him then I wouldn't hesitate to suggest our favorite King of the Friendzone.



He may need to learn to drop the pussy look though.

Well maybe he shouldn't have such a GARBAGE TIER WAIFU if he wants the respect of his peers.

Well maybe he shouldn't have such a GARBAGE TIER WAIFU if he wants the respect of his peers.

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The only real waifu.

It's the socks with sandals that really gets me swooning

Channel 9 in Australia.... Oh, Channel 9....

A TV station filled with the most disgusting and vile people I can think of. Why?

Well... They are starting a show that will air next Monday where a family that has suffered hardship is offered money but if they take it, than this other family won't get money. Still not following well...

"The Jones family lost their home, their possessions and their lively hood in the Victorian bush fires and they have been offered 100,000 dollars. Will they take the money or give it to the Smith family where Mrs Smith suffered a life threatening illness and has had 4 limbs amputated."

That is SERIOUSLY how they phrased it. Now what kind of fucked up person do you have to be to turn personal suffering into a gambling fucken game show.

Channel 9 in Australia.... Oh, Channel 9....

A TV station filled with the most disgusting and vile people I can think of. Why?

Well... They are starting a show that will air next Monday where a family that has suffered hardship is offered money but if they take it, than this other family won't get money. Still not following well...

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That is SERIOUSLY how they phrased it. Now what kind of fucked up person do you have to be to turn personal suffering into a gambling fucken game show.

I would take the money for myself if I was in the situation the Jones Family is in.

It's the socks with sandals that really gets me swooning

If the Army has taught me one thing it's that you will be mercilessly ridiculed for your choice in civilian clothes until you dress the same as everyone else. I dig the 1950s middle class look though, so it's okay.

Channel 9 in Australia.... Oh, Channel 9....

A TV station filled with the most disgusting and vile people I can think of. Why?

Well... They are starting a show that will air next Monday where a family that has suffered hardship is offered money but if they take it, than this other family won't get money. Still not following well...

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That is SERIOUSLY how they phrased it. Now what kind of fucked up person do you have to be to turn personal suffering into a gambling fucken game show.

You take the money, then you give half of it to the other family.

When the co-GM says somethin and you know they must be on something,
so you're like:



so ya waiting for the GM to come back and straighten things out

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If the Army has taught me one thing it's that you will be mercilessly ridiculed for your choice in civilian clothes until you dress the same as everyone else.

Shit, that was all I learned in all my years in school.

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Shit, that was all I learned in all my years in school.

Well to be fair you absolutely cannot let your buddy tuck his t shirt into jeans while wearing his dog tags and combat boots.

That right there requires a drunken expedition to the thrift shops of Philadelphia.

I hate Rooster Teeth

I liked Rooster Teeth when they were this little indie group of people and now they're corporate and are making crappy versions of an already crappy card game and Lazer Team was a shit movie and it's like calm the fuck down everyone knows people are just watching RWBY anyway

If 'everyone' means the moderately sized weeb/waifu community who over-hype the shit out of it.

They also pander to the teenage gamerbase like mad, "Hey guys me and this other average looking 28 year old snarky woman host are bisexuals! we love boobs as much as you do!" It reeks of gamergate sympathy and try-hard cringe.

Well why wouldn't they pander to the teenage gamer demo that is literally their target market.

Them trying to be a source for information with their The Know or whatever is the worst. And so is them inserting awkward ad breaks in their podcast which ruins the flow of conversation.

Also I'm a member of the weeb/waifu community and even I think RWBY is shit so