Ah, it’s fine. That person was quite beyond, your ask had nothing to do with that.
And another anon:
Kana are getting married and flying away to Thailand for their honeymoon to never come back, that’s my take. But really, when are they gonna understand that representation really fucking matters? And it sucks you have to deal with some rude as fuck anons lately =/
That’s the perfect end for them. Just go around adventuring and then settle down somewhere when they’re ready.
I don’t really know when people will understand. One of the more hurtful things about this was that Bhavna did do her research with the Naz and Matt Foundation and she and Faye seem to understand that this is important, just not how or why?
They probably just see some pieces of the whole thing, that it’s valuable for people to see themselves and for others to see them, but they don’t understand how for many this is the only way see that reflection. Not just in media, not just in soaps or British TV, but in any part of their lives. From their parents to books used to learn how to read to commercials to their teachers and friends’ families and Disney movies and cartoons and YA litierature and so on. Bhavna and Faye and more importantly, the writers, can’t even comprehend the magnitude of that lack. To them this is the one story ending, but they don’t know that we have so little else to replace it.
And another anon:
I think in regards to killing Rana, it is a symptom of a larger problem. Yes, people get killed off soaps all the time but when a straight white character dies there are countless other characters to fill that void. When a queer character or a character of color is killed there is not usually another character to fill that void. Until the number of lgbtq characters come close to the number hetero characters (or at least close to the real world ratio) this will continue to be an issue.
Yeah, I kind of sighed at seeing this, not because you sent it, anon, but because I was hoping we could leave these discussions in 2016, when we had them again and again and again. We have the list of reasons why fine tuned now, first media deliberately killed us off, once it was allowed it was comedy relief or male gazey stuff, we have so few examples in real life to look to, good rep normalizes while bad rep actively harms, as you said, rep is so rare that once it goes bad nothing is there to replace it, etc.
Most professional media not written by apathetic morons has learned some kind of lesson from 2016. Those who haven’t, well, what can say about apathetic morons?