On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]>wrote:
> Thewrap.com's Jethro Nededog seems to be concerned that Mindy Kaling has > decided that her Dr. Mindy Lahiri character on "The Mindy Project" only > goes out with white men--should he be, or is he sounding like her mother?: > > http://www.thewrap.com/fox-mindy-project-season-2-premiere > I am somewhat bothered that we still live in a nation in which it is unlikely that a TV show would get high ratings if it was centered in a non-white world. I think that is the main reason that even shows based on non-white starts depict them as interacting mostly with white people. You are probably more likely to see a White character dating a Black or Indian character than a Black or Indian character doing so. But I am more bothered by Nededog's tired racial and ethnic essentialist (e.g.: "What’s the message being sent when minority female characters on television exclusively date and regularly lose themselves with white men?"). If he is going to raise a question like this, he should at least spend three sentences trying to defend the hoary argument that our "real" selves are fundamentally defined by our racial or ethnic identity. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
