Wait, I don't get it. She's divorced from her children's father, and is expounding how this is better because now she can date without her biological clock ticking. Is she advocating having kids first with whoever is your best option at the time, then deciding who you want to marry, cause, you know, now you're free to…

UPN is defunct (merged with WB to become CW), but was network.

I mean, I'm in that boat. I'm a minority male and I've dated mostly white women in my life. Theoretically, that should be even more difficult. There's sort of an internal struggle where I ask myself why do I find myself dating white women over and over. I have zero aversion to women of my own race.

Good catch, I'm an asshole for not remembering that. Very funny guy, either way.

Also, I'd say it's a little unreasonable increase diversity on Friends or Seinfeld, AKA The Whitest Shows In The Universe

You have a point, I don't have any examples to prove my theory. I just feel that the focus is always on her dating white dudes, as opposed to the casting on the show.

It's hard to say. I get annoyed when people say some shit like "KIDZ THESE DAYS" like young people were different or better back in the day. But the truth is, most people just wanna get theirs and not go beyond armchair activism. I'm certainly guilty of it, too.

Look dude, if you care, that's great. We need white people to care, because they are heard the most.

Yeah seriously. Minority men aren't meant to be romantic leads on TV; we're just comic relief. The only time that's not true is when the story is explicitly about overcoming racism, e.g. Harold and Kumar (take that with a grain of salt, and yes, that shit opens a whole new can of worms).

I think people in general should not watch Tyler Perry movies. Not even because they have shitty stereotypes and terrible messages about women, but because they are unfunny.

Oh not at all. I was thinking more along the lines of Asian men. I think the old trope is that black MEN don't date black women.

While you are correct about those shows, they are part of my point. They were highly successful because they had white audiences. Shows with black casts that were successful with black audiences but not white ones were/are relegated to UPN and BET.

The thing is, every time I see someone asking her these questions, I think of that scene with Craig Robinson in Knocked Up where he talks about how he's only allowed to let in a certain amount of black people to maintain a low ratio. If she ups the minority factor too much, white people stop watching, she gets…

Nah we're definitely on the same page homie.

I think part of the reason Lena Dunham caught such hell is because of the setting of the show. You're gonna have a lot of backlash from the NYC anti gentrification crowd, because she does a show in Brooklyn without black people, BUT, to be fair, a lot of the neighborhoods Hannah and her friends frequent actually do…

But that's what I'm saying, the critique is internal. It, like, "doesn't matter" to the rest of the world because his movies are pigeonholed as black movies, so it doesn't matter if he does shitty things in them because mainstream (white) audiences don't watch them.

Here's the thing: when POC complain about shows with white casts, e.g. Seinfeld of Friends, no one cares. Sure, some people complained. It was barely reported on, and Seinfeld and Friends gave zero shits about it.

Woah, hold up. That is an unfair comparison.

Every time I see one of these videos, I wonder how this dude still has all his fingers.

My friend works in the blood bank at a hospital. He's told me that it's fairly common to see really serious late stage alcoholics come in and say they've drank antifreeze so they can get an ethanol IV. I guess the receptors prefer ethanol to ethylene glycol, and so the treatment is basically to keep a ethanol in your…