You Need To Start Fucking Killing Off The White Dicks

[redbrunja]

Stop killing the ladies, writers.

If my tumblr dash can be trusted, it looks like Beverly over on Hannibal just died.

I just can not.

Back when Abigail Hobbs died, someone commented that killing teenage girls was, basically, the cheapest, laziest storytelling move a writer can make, and you know what? It is.

I am just so fucking tired of ladies being expendable and vehicles for man-pain and treated as replaceable.

It especially grates with Beverly because I was reading an article with Brian Fuller, who basically said that Abigail Hobbes had been killed off because if they'd killed who they originally intended, there wouldn't have been enough audience investment in the character. And then Fuller refused to say more, because he "might still kill them off."

And I knew, I fucking knew, he was talking about Beverly. And I think her increased role this season has been almost solely so her death hurts more.

FYI Teen Wolf Spoilers in the comments.

Comments

[scorpiod1.livejournal.com]

I feel like quitting tv, I can't deal with losing Allison and Beverly IN THE SAME WEEK.

I'm just so done.

Agree with this whole post, it's like, WOMEN ARE EXPENDABLE AND JUST THERE TO DIE TO CAUSE OTHER PAIN, BUT WHITE DUDES ARE JUST SO IMPORTANT WE CAN'T KILL THEM OFF.

I need better shows.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

It is just the biggest fuck-you that I think Fuller could have wrote. It retroactively makes Abigail's death EVEN MORE AWFUL and I hadn't thought that was possible.

Agree with this whole post, it's like, WOMEN ARE EXPENDABLE AND JUST THERE TO DIE TO CAUSE OTHER PAIN, BUT WHITE DUDES ARE JUST SO IMPORTANT WE CAN'T KILL THEM OFF.

Pretty much.

BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY SMART, MINORITY WOMEN IN STEM FIELDS.

I feel so vindicated that I officially quit Hannibal a couple weeks ago.