If you go around Tumblr and gather up every single user with an MLP avatar, more than half of them are bound to be “euphoric” meninist trash. Try it, it’s a fun new internet game, like typing “Your Name the Hedgehog” into DeviantART.

Blerg.

For those not in the know: Matthew Shepard was a gay teen who was murdered in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998. Shepard met Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson outside of a bar and the two offered him a ride. The men then tortured Shepard–including, yes, pistol whipping him–and left him for dead, tied to a fence by the side of the road.

The defense argued that McKinney and Henderson just wanted to rob him and only murdered him because Shepard made a pass at them, otherwise known as the “gay panic defense.” This defense is still used today, but mostly in relation to the murders of trans women. Both men were given two life sentences, because fuck them. Effort was made to turn gay bashing into a hate crime, but it was for naught for a very long time. Clinton put effort into it but failed, Bush actively fought against it, and Obama finally put it into law.

Matthew Shepard’s story is the reason I have trust issues and fear holding my boyfriend’s hand in public.

Regarding TVTropes: This is another reason why Real Life Examples should not be a thing. Burying real tragedies on the bottom of a page where fictional characters are given more tears than real people is crap, crap, crap and should not happen. If there is one thing that TVTropes does not have, it’s the tact it requires to tackle the real world.

Tail end. Lol.

Bogleech was specifically talking about lolicon, but you’re right on that front. A lot of times, TVTropes will talk about erotic content in such a way that it sounds completely non-sexual. I mean, I’m a sex-positive person and I’ve done some freaky shit in my day, but if I’m looking up something to watch or read, I expect it to say somewhere that there’s niche fetishes (or worse) involved.

You cracked the code, this entire blog was made because I hate this page specifically.

bogleech:

It’s a really useful resource and a good way to learn about stuff you might want to check out, but it also breeds a kind of unfortunate mindset. It’s not as bad as it used to be, but there’s some people who basically see all entertainment through trope-o-vision and think all you gotta do to write a story or come up with a character is throw a bunch of tropes and references together and you’ll have something good.

Not to mention, after the site banned all discussion of certain adult content, you can no longer tell if a series you read about on it is actually going to gross you the fuck out.

It’s not hideous, but it’s not pretty either. It could use a lot of work. I appreciate how it has a more Wikia-format, but it’s got a very narrow window for actual content. The drivel at the right takes up way too much screen space. Is You Know That Show... really important enough to justify its placement there?

The trope pages themselves seem largely unaffected. When I frequented TVTropes (about two formats ago, I believe), the “hub” was at the left and the content was at the right. It’s just flipped, so, you know, big whoop. Still, like I said, I feel like the sidebars could be significantly smaller.

The previous format had a similar problem, but it was less noticeable since it was more pleasing to the eye.

Awwww, thanks. I just try to be myself and give honest answers to people. And, PS, #TeamBobTheDragQueen.

Someone should add me.