1:37 pm - 01/09/2013
Lena Dunham Caved to Her Critics on Race, and It Made "Girls" a Better Show
The backlash to season one of HBO's "Girls" erupted as soon as the wunderkind glow around Lena Dunham had dimmed. On The Hairpin, Jenna Wortha lamented unham’s failure “to weave a main black character” into the show. The blog Racialiciou posted piece titled “Dear Lena Dunham: I exist.” And Dunham leapt to apologize. “If we have the opportunity to do a second season, I’ll address that,” sh told he Huffington Post. Soon after season two began shooting, news was leaked that “Girls” had put out casting notices seeking “hipster types” of “all ethnicities.”
( Lena Dunham + Donald Glover... ok here we goCollapse )Edit: oh god comments enabled. sorry y'all i'm new to making actual posts.
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Glad they put this in the show. I think it shows that she does understand the complaints people had, and that she was being being very white in not getting it automatically.
are you seriously just upset that he doesn't sound like someone you'd like irl because that's a really stupid reason to condemn someone's characterization of a fictional POC
But are there any actual recurring characters of color beyond Glover's small arc? Will there be any more? Because the criticism was never that Girls needed to be everything to everybody or to tackle race. The complaint was that a show set in a very racially diverse city could have easily included a recurring main character of color that wasn't a service worker, hobo or nanny and they chose not to, even though POC can also travel in those same social circles and can be just as obliviously spoiled, entitled and self-involved. Because POC can be written into a show and not exist to be a walking lesson on racism.
Edited at 2013-01-10 12:46 am (UTC)
I do think this is a great way to open up discussion on the topic though and perhaps throughout the season we'll see some more POC characters idk idk
To be fair, none of the couples on that show ever really kiss. Phil and Claire and Gloria and Jay hardly ever kiss each other, either
Girl let me set up a nice banquet for you and take you shopping afterwards !
You deserve it!
That person is probably in charge of ONTDHATESWHITES tbh
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Also this entire conversation is going to make Hannah really unlikeable for me. Like, past the point of no return dislike.
that ship sailed for me since episode 1
So, has anyone been in an interracial relationship? How has that gone. My most recent ex-gf is latina and I'm white, and it partially caused a lot of issues for us.
It has gone really well, as far as race goes, because whenever I experience racism he doesn't try to invalidate it, and whenever I'm like "you have no idea what being a minority is like" he's just like "this is true" and doesn't turn into a cock like most whiteys.
Basically, we don't go out of our way to bring race up, but we also don't avoid it, and when it does come up he's really respectful. Which is how the entire world should work tbh