so what do you think about the whole thing where Clexa fans have trended almost every day for a week while JRot has been quiet AND after ellen has supported his silence? what a shit show.
Ah, that’s a very interesting thing to observe now, isn’tit? To see how JRat’s gonna try and get his ass out of this mess (not onlyafter gross under-estimation of the fanbase he deliberately manipulated, butalso after subsequently choosing entirely wrong tactics–silence with head in the sand whileit blows over, but alas–kids are fucking FURIOUS, and rightfully so) while…well, AfterEllen is being a ginormous sellout and ass-kissing support to CWbecause they’re basically part of the same network?
Yes. We assume that you are referring to Trish Bendix’sridiculous effort to cover one issue by raising concern about another one (that she’d neverbothered to cover before, oddly) and deliberately divert topic toBlackLivesMatter, because one type of oppression cancels ALL others, right? Forthe same website that first interviewed Lana Parrilla (after bazillion votesand clicks we gave them in that damn poll, after which we didn’t even deservethem trying to get JMo’s explanation for refusing to ‘speak’ to us?) whereshe used opportunity to promote her ongoing hetero lovestory with theForestBush (tho’ in her defense, at the time she had no idea how much of asnivelling wife-cheating rat he was going to turn out to be) and said weird stuff(the ‘masculine energy’ stereotyping of lesbians that made some of us go‘wtf?’) that showed how fundamentally she misunderstands why we all digthe dynamics between her character and the one formerly known as Emma Swan. Andthen the following year, the very same Trish Bendix (and after similarpoll-type clicky-frenzy their site benefited over) didn’t even bother to contactthese actresses again–but instead reached out and gave a mic to those twosexist, heteroenforcing middle-aged misogynists, giving themopportunity to continue to promote their shit (aka scraps of some randomone-episode-never-to-see-it-again-afterwards ‘queer’ romance, instead ofthe one that organically wrote itself?) by trying to sell it to us as legit effort of“Once Upon a Time to reflect the real world and the diversity within it”, which… isutterly laughable—for their white, straight, heteros-only bcs no-homofairytale.
Instead of you know, being an actual journalist thatcould’ve shown some activist initiative to ask the hard questions, and call out the assholes aboutqueerbaiting in their writing, blatant homophobia they nurture in their(hetero, Tween) fandom, and last but not least–the scandalously shameful treatment of their LBGT+ (straight allies shipping SQ, included)fanbase?
The comments section under that latest article is abeautiful thing to behold, now. Trish asked queer women of colour to speak uptheir mind, and… she should’ve been careful what she was asking for. Becauseapparently ‘kids’ (QPoCs, or not) who got outraged at their treatment by The100showrunner–are much more elaborate and organized than we everwere (because, not that many superimposing egos there?) and are taking things a lot further than we ever did in this fandom–despite overall appalling treatment of not onlyshowrunners but also the entire cast and PR.
So we should really observe and learn here, shouldn’twe?
