Minorities of all sorts do die more often, but that’s because they are more likely to be minor characters. There may also be confirmation bias, because people look for that sort of thing. White people dying you tend to forget about. I don’t even remember how many members of Herschel’s family died on the farm.
As for women, they did at least write the Lori character horribly. Everybody hated her, and not in the way they hate Merle. This is a problem general to tv shows, and maybe to victim as a whole. It stems from the fact that most writers are men, and while they are able to invent good woman characters some of the time, they always let bad eggs through.
But why shouldn’t there be female characters who are bad eggs? They shouldn’t all be written positively just because of their gender.
The bitching I’ve seen from liberal women seems to be because they once showed female characters doing laundry, and occasionally cooking. The idea is that the male characters should be doing that, too. Yeah...let’s take Daryl’s bow away from him and have him whip up dinner. That would benefit the group.
I can’t say I’ve forgotten about white people dying....I don’t quite understand that. I still miss Shane, and then of course there was Dale and Lori. I miss T-Dogg as well. Oscar, I felt, was turning out to be a good member of the group, but we didn’t get to know him.