Well, a lot of it, I think is a lot of unconscious homophobia on the part of writers who know they should be diverse in the GLBT sense, but aren't sure what to do with GLBT characters (because ZOMG! The gays are so different from hetties!) so they sort of kill them off and think that maybe, somehow, they makes them a tragic hero and will get them the Diversity Pass without them having to really write a gay character.
And you're right. IT SUCKS SO MUCH ASS. Frankly, I was disappointed about that in Watchmen. Couldn't they have just had the lesbians go into hiding? I could deal with that. I mean, plus, to have a character who was so radically open at a time (I mean, dude, the 1940's) when that sort of thing could get you beat up, killed, or incarcerated in a mental institute just deserved better treatment.
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Date: 2009-05-03 04:25 pm (UTC)Well, a lot of it, I think is a lot of unconscious homophobia on the part of writers who know they should be diverse in the GLBT sense, but aren't sure what to do with GLBT characters (because ZOMG! The gays are so different from hetties!) so they sort of kill them off and think that maybe, somehow, they makes them a tragic hero and will get them the Diversity Pass without them having to really write a gay character.
And you're right. IT SUCKS SO MUCH ASS. Frankly, I was disappointed about that in Watchmen. Couldn't they have just had the lesbians go into hiding? I could deal with that. I mean, plus, to have a character who was so radically open at a time (I mean, dude, the 1940's) when that sort of thing could get you beat up, killed, or incarcerated in a mental institute just deserved better treatment.
*sigh*.