The Sound of the Crowd

Sometimes I wonder

This is an FBI report on the 7,489 hate crimes, including 14 murders, in the US last year.

“Six of the 14 murders were committed as a result of a sexual-orientation bias, five involved racial prejudice, two were committed because of a bias against an ethnicity and one was the result of a hostility toward a disability, the bureau said.”

Those of you who aren’t now, or never have been Joss Whedon fans can skip to the next item. The rest of you can click below to see what I sometimes wonder.

I wonder if information like this causes any Joss Whedon zombies to have just a lick more compassion towards those who thought Tara & Willow were more important than Joss’ “genius.”

Do they see the world lesbian fans are living in? Do they understand what Willow & Tara meant to them? Do they get what Whedon took away to serve his tragically limp storyline?


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