LGBTQ+ Fans Deserve Better

LGBTQ+ Fans Deserve Better

Hi everybody, Mary here.

So, here's something that I realised recently, when it comes to LGBTQ+ representation in the media, the trope « Bury Your Gays » is way more present than I ever thought. But you know who gets killed the most often ?

Queer girls.

Basically, here's an article that I found about queer girls dying : https://www.autostraddle.com/all-65-dead-lesbian-and-bisexual-characters-on-tv-and-how-they-died-312315/

Compared to the list of queer girls who had a happy ending : https://www.autostraddle.com/all-26-lesbian-and-bisexual-tv-characters-who-got-happy-endings-331601/

The chances of having a happy ending when you're a queer girl on TV is pretty slim.

Now, let's review all the nasty clichés and interpretations of the deaths of these queer girls to understand something that could be related to it : PATRIARCHY.

So, first of all, we can see there are three ways that a queer girl generally dies :

1. Killed by a man that she rejected, by sword, by bullet, by arrow, by any basic mortal injury ever. (Which is basically the patriarchal way of getting rid of a woman who doesn't need men at the moment and who wants to reject unwanted sexual harassment). Oh, and you can count car « accidents » caused by men, too.
2. Suicide. Because obviously, every queer girl ever is suicidal, wants to brutally harm themselves, believes they are the only one on planet Earth, and so on. (Man, the only thing I thought about today was how gay the sky looked. Whatever.)
3. Something selfless. Or cancer. Because obiously, we can't have selfish and long lives. It's either « dies in the explosion of a bomb to save thousands of people » or « sacrifices herself to save people on a spaceship », or cancer. Whatever.

Oh, and you want some MORE tropes to add to this ? Here are some !!!

1. The « dies horribly in the girlfriend's arms while muttering confessions of love » trope !!!
2. The « I can't live without my girlfriend because she died in a car accident, was murdered or died of cancer, therefore I'll kill myself and die too !!! » trope !!!
3. The « why kill only one when you can kill TWO » trope !!!
4. The « but it was an accident » trope !!!
5. The « but it shows that nobody's safe » trope !!! *proceeds to never kill a straight character EVER*

Have you noticed something ? Well, the list of dead queer girls is rising WAAAAAY faster than the one with the happy endings. And it's NOT okay. But I believe there's a reason for all of that !!!

It's called the PATRIARCHY !!!

Or basically, cishet men are so fragile that the very bare concept of women living together and not needing them anymore is threatening to their over-power and masculinity and deity complex, and therefore, they kill all of them in the media because they just happen to hate women who can have meaningful, healthy relationships that don't include them !

(Oh, and have you seen the « stupid » ways of getting someone out ? Like « heart attack during plastic surgery » or « licks poisoned letter paper ». Wow. Isn't there a better way to die to be honest ? *heavy sarcasm*)

Anyways, I really hope you enjoyed this video, and I'll see you very soon with a new one.

And as usual, our last word : KIDNEYS !!!