I should really rewatch season one... I sincerely believe that everything, especially ethnicity and culture, are chose pretty specifically on Community. They worked in Danny Pudi being half-Polish and Donald Glover being brought up in the Jehovah's Witness faith so I doubt it was accidental. The specific…

Polyamory for the win!

I'm actually pretty sure they've said he's Korean... But I do know they've made fun of the idea that "all Asian people look alike" before so it could just be that.

I don't know that I could really, definitively pick. A friend forced me to choose between Troy and Jeff and I picked Jeff for, you know, sexual purposes and Troy for cuddling. In real life, I think I lean toward the opposite.

As an aside, Community is my favourite show so I'm always glad to have one of their many positives highlighted.

I can only guess that the first show that you're referring to is 2 Broke Girls and the ignorance and overtly racist stereotypes on that show have been mentioned numerous times - the creator's tantrum when questioned about it as the TCA press tour is also well-documented. Apparently, the racism is okay because he's…

I tend to identify as feminist (as a woman of colour) *because* I don't want people to think it's a bad word or a label. I suppose I think of it as reclaiming it from the patriarchy? Having said that, I've gotten more and more interested in race and class issues that I experience and so-called mainstream feminism…

With regards to haircuts, people might cry for a lot of different reasons, as has been mentioned already. For me, there was a whole history of being forced to get haircuts I didn't want and subsequently being made fun of at home and school because of those haircuts. When I hit 13, I refused to let anyone touch my…