Not sure why you brought casting into this when the author and myself are discussing narratives. No one said Emily V Gordon’s character should be recast, just that the movie reiterates a dearth in POC on POC relationships in American cinema. Kumail being brown doesn’t make this any less true.

Seriously? I’m in one as well, and I totally know what this article is actually saying. I think anyone who is feeling a way about this is bringing in some unresolved issues and taking it out on this piece. Your relationship is fine. Many interracial relationships are. But that doesn’t stop the fact that white women…

Yes and no. On the one hand, I like the movie and liked learning about the writers’ experiences. On the other hand I don’t agree that we can’t or shouldn’t critique lived experience.

My thought is that if you think an otherwise identical script would get traction with a WOC as the love interest, if Kumail IRL happened to marry a black woman or a secular middle easterner or south asian he would have just as easily found funding, you’re in denial.

I am upset with Kumail, but not because he loves a white woman (in real life or in the film). I’m upset because he chose to represent Pakistanis and Indians as one-dimensional stereotypes. He absolutely has control over how he represents in the characters in his own film.

Sure, but he USED brown women to be easy laughs - the butts of the joke, caricatures. Kind of shitty if you ask me. Love whoever you want. But don’t make your jokes at the expense of someone else (in this case South Asian women), completely belittling and trivializing them. Poking fun at their accent and/or culture.…

This type of interracial true story is told over and over again, though. Black and white, Asian and white, etc. The message is always the same: The women who look like you are not as big of a prize as the white women.

Screw convention. Eat what you want, when you feel like eating it. I had a chicken burrito for breakfast yesterday.

The only change I can think of is they changed from Amex to Visa

My philosophy is this: If I have a choice between denying myself the food items I want and living to a ripe old age but feeling like I missed out on things I like, or eating what I want and dying sooner but happy, I know what one I’m going with.

I had a meeting with a senior VP from Costco last year, and at one point remarked that my favorite lunch at age 40 is the exact same thing as my favorite lunch at age 15: a Costco hot dog (with mustard and onions) and soda for $1.50. He told me “That’s my favorite, too, and that price is going to stay the same as long…

Some bright spark at 7-Eleven got the idea to package and sell their Big Bite hot dogs in the refrigerator case.

Now I just need to find a good home version of the roller grill and I’ll be playing with house money until it’s time to meet the gods, my life on earth fulfilled.

I completely disagree. One look at my comment history will prove that coddling racist fucks is never in my “to do” list.

Alex was my absolute favorite. You may have missed it, but he had the most batshit insane clothing I’ve ever seen on the show. All the other guys would be wearing dark jeans and a blazer and Alex would show up in fluorescent purple zebra print sweatpants and a hoodie. Bless that giant Russian and his goofiness and his…

I’m of two minds with the Kenny going back to talk to Lee situation I am a petty bitch and I get why he would want to rub it all up in Lee’s racist face and it did feel very vindicating to watch him do it. But I also get Rachel being over it she’s probably wanted to get rid of Lee for the longest and the producers…

I get Kenny wanting to have the last word, but Lee’s whole game was to bait Kenny because getting a rise out of Kenny is satisfying to Lee. Kenny wasn’t ‘wrong’ to do it, but it was exactly what Lee wanted. Just don’t give people like Lee the satisfaction of knowing they got to you — then they lose their power.

As noted earlier, I’m not white (I’m admittedly not black either, I’m a mixture of non-white races) and have at several points in my life been called a racial slur or two. It definitely gets you right to you core. I can completely understand WHY Kenny wanted to yell at Lee, the debate is whether he SHOULD have.

I was very annoyed that Kenny left her in the helicopter to have yet another round with racist Lee.

My advice is: do not start drinking before the guests arrive or the food prep is completed. One drink and my priorities shift from “let’s have a nice dinner” to “let’s have another drink and potato chips”

Then don’t get one, and don’t assume everyone is physically capable of lifting a heavy stand mixer out of storage to out on a countertop. When my mom is over, she can now easily use my mixer now without asking for anyone’s help.