Because honestly how different is she from anyone else in Hollywood aside from her skin color? Or Wall Street? Or DC? Or anywhere else that has highly attractive, powerful professions?

I can understand the criticism towards Mindy, but show me the equivalent number of interviews about race with Chuck Lorre. Also, I fail to understand how having an architect and a gynecologist (both of them 1st gen immigrants) even compares to any of the other people in your list.

Yeah, I'm with Mindy. It's not enough that a woman or a person of color gets their own show and isn't some bullshit Uncle Tom-style stereotype, which is already hard — she has to have a diverse cast, and answer a thousand interview questions about her diverse cast, and heaven help her if her sense of humor is at all…

So...what I said, then? Privilege but not connections. Literally every single person you named has a famous parent (or two).

Certainly Lupita too.

Private school in Boston. Wealthy family. Dartmouth.

Yes. The really odd thing is that she's almost asking to be given a pass because she's an Indian woman. Even if you take her point on ethnic diversity, there's no explaining the lack of other women in substantial roles on the show. I am running out of like for Mindy.

Mindy's parents were never famous or connected like all of those people you listed. I mean don't get me wrong, "privilege," absolutely, but I don't see how she had "good connections" in the way that all of those others did.

I'm not sure what your point is, Lupita came from a very privileged background too, most people in Hollywood do.

Ok, I am the heartless monster who loathes Mindy Kaling. I loved Kelly Kapoor, and expected Kaling to be infinitely delightful. So I read her book, in which she repeatedly describes herself as a woman with a "normal" body; thus, at a size 8, she implied that anyone below or above that arbitrary number was abnormal.…

I'm a fucking Indian woman also, but it doesn't mean I don't think about ways to challenge people's notions of diversity. While I agree that a double-standard exists and no one person should be responsible for breaking all the barriers, I don't think it hurts to challenge onesself to keep pushing boundaries.

She's a minority which means she has to be the voice for her entire race. /s

There is NOTHING in the reports about Adam Lanza that would in any way indicate that he had borderline personality disorder. FFS, could we (meaning people like you) stop using "borderline personality" as a catch all for negative behavior we don't understand? Talk about stigma. A mom beats her kids — "she must be a…

sounded more like anti social personality disorder than schizo anyway. everyone (including me) is an armchair psychiatrist these days.

It seems more likely that he had some form of an antisocial personality disorder. Perhaps paired with a borderline personality. It's possible he had multiple disorders. There don't seem to be any references to delusions or psychotic features so maybe he was rational, just lacked empathy and was detached from other…

It is not true actually. Paranoid schizophrenics are usually a danger to themselves, not others. The incidence of violence amongst people with any type of schizophrenia is actually lower than it is in the "normal" population. The problem is that when schizophrenics do get violent, they are a big danger because they…

I am not, nor have I ever been, in favor of shutting down discussion and I 100% agree that he likely had more going on than Asperger's. What I object to is, again, throwing out a specific condition, without any kind of professional diagnostic process. Because people hear that and think "schizophrenics are, to a man,…

As a social worker and a mental health worker, I applaud the "efforts" of the government trying to solve this problem with more research. The fact of the matter is, social services, including funding for mental health, is the first to get cut in any aspect of government, nationally and locally. This is a population…

Oh dear, I'm being accused of being emotional and irrational by the guy who insists there's nothing wrong with untrained professionals trying to diagnose people because schizophrenics are scary.

This is a really good point.