Context is everything in both narrative and real life, and while the accusation is never that these creators deliberately set out to discriminate against gay and female characters, the unavoidable implication is that they should have known better than to add to the sum total of those stories which, en masse, do exactly that. And if the listmakers can identify the trend so thoroughly — if, despite all the individual qualifications, protests and contextualisations of the authors, these problems can still be said to exist — then the onus, however disconnected from the work of any one individual, nonetheless falls to those individuals, in their role as cultural creators, to acknowledge the problem; to do better next time; perhaps even to apologise. This last is a particular sticking point. By and large, human beings tend not to volunteer apologies for things they perceive to be the fault of other people, for the simple reason that apology connotes guilt, and how can we feel guilty — or rather, why should we — if we’re not the ones at fault? But while we might argue over who broke a vase, the vase itself is still broken, and will remain so, its shards ground into the carpet, until someone decides to clean it up. Blog Post: Love Team Freezer . Foz Meadows
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This is a metaphor for how people think that they are right and that the other person should change to fit their way of thinking, even though other people think differently from them. The word 'love team' refers to a group of people where the majority of which do not agree with each other, because they each have their own opinion, but eventually will come to a compromise. But sometimes this is not the case and it can be difficult to reach a consensus because of this difference.

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