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nicoleanell:

hazellazer:

So I’m sure by now most people have seen the Vox graphics about how many characters were killed on the TV this season. But I wanted an even bigger picture so I broke out the data myself so I could compare it with GLAAD’s Where We Are on TV report.

So on Broadcast TV we had 36 deaths of Regulars and 99 deaths of Recurring characters.

On Cable (including premium cable) we had 43 deaths of Regulars and 51 deaths of recurring characters.

On streaming 10 total deaths were noted, which seems low to me considering Jessica Jones was at least half of them.

Unfortunately GLAADs only solid number on total characters is Broadcast Regulars so that’s the only one I can do overall percentages on.

So out of 881 Broadcast Regulars:
35 were LGBT
36 characters died

So approximately 4% in each case.

But of the 35 LGBT characters, 5 died which makes the death rate of LGBT Broadcast Regulars 14%.

So LGBT characters are dying at a rate of 3x straight characters.

In addition 100% of those deaths were women.

And 80% were women of color. (Consider that 33% of all LGBT regulars and recurring characters are POC.)

Food for thought.

Happy pride month

So LGBT characters are dying at a rate of 3x straight characters.

Here’s the Vox article if the link isn’t showing up, it has an interactive graph! Now with some extra math from my friend.

This is why @lgbtviewersdeservebetter movement is important.