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Stephen Colbert is winning so hard
in the game of my affections right now. I wanted to blog about these ads last week, but didn’t know how to type STEREOTYPICAL, RACIST, and CULTURALLY INSENSITIVE in large enough letters. Or how to...
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HOLD THE MOTHAFUCKIN PHONE
So in recent weeks I’d heard a lot of buzz about this miniseries called “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl“. Occasionally some of the blogs I read would post about it, and I would wonder whether...
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SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME WHY
Tyler Perry is getting his own television station. WHO THINKS THIS IS A GOOD IDEA?! WHO?!?! I would like to know so I can go personally slap them, on behalf of advocates of social change everywhere....
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Smh
So when I was checking FOX’s website to see when Bones comes back (NOT TIL NOVEMBER WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!), I noticed that they have a new show coming out called I Hate My Teenage Daughter. And then I...
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THIS.
“The thing that sucks about Girls and Seinfeld and Sex and the City and every other TV show like them isn’t that they don’t include strong characters focusing on the problems facing blacks and Latinos...
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19% of prime ti…
19% of prime time television characters are non-human while only 17% are women. –A Profile of Americans’ Media Use and Political Socialization Effects: television and the Internet’s relationship to...
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You can say ‘bi…
You can say ‘bitch’ on national television but you can’t say ‘shit,’ because in our society it’s more acceptable to degrade women than poop. –Paul Wesselman (via Lavender Labia)
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Until now. Slee…
Until now. Sleepy Hollow (along with the dear departed Ugly Betty) has ushered in a new era in which POC TV protagonists are allowed to head the most ridiculous, campy shows out there. Sleepy Hollow’s...
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First, lessons …
First, lessons about women’s untrustworthiness are in our words, pictures, art, and memory. It’s simple enough to see how we are overwhelmingly portrayed as flawed, supplemental, ornamental, or...
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Spilt Milk, on the advertising of heterosexuality
I can’t really be suggesting that heterosexuality is somehow taught, can I? That it is somehow part of the curriculum? I would argue that it is very much part of what schools aim to teach. Why else...
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