This writer has a right to their opinion, but there are certain measures and tropes that define bury your gays. The point of pushing back against byg isn’t that queer characters can never die. It’s that their lives (and deaths) should have real meaning. Spoiler: https://twitter.com/indiewire/status/1321499468680683521
Dani’s death isn’t to further someone else’s plot, or punishment for her queerness, or something used to manipulate the audience. She IS the story.
That in itself is the ultimate pushback against Bury Your Gays
There's good number of scary tweets directed at this writer, some that misgender them & some that say they don't have a right to have an opinion on a lesbian topic. None of that is ok. Every writer has written something that has upset folks at some point. They are also human.
Someone threatened to murder me over something I once wrote about a ship, I've been told to kill myself numerous times over a Glee recap. Just breathe and remember there's someone on the other end of your tweet.
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