Sure. I’m not negating the fact that stories that feature white characters get preference over POC love stories on purpose. I’m taking this comment to mean that you haven’t seen the film since you bring up the trailer/commercial. Before judging its contents I would have to see the film to see how women are treated.…

Thank you!!! I read this and got so mad! So mad! I couldn’t think of the words and you put them perfectly in your comment.

Yes, the complaining has gotten out of control. Nothing is ever good enough. If men show up at women’s marches, then they’re just looking to get laid. If women show up to women’s marches but not BLM marches, then somehow they’re not REAL protesters. If a movie is made with a minority member at the helm, then why…

Not only did it actually happen. The movie was actually conceived of and WRITTEN by the white woman he married. Was she supposed to write herself out of her own autobiographical movie about herself??

This part disturbed me, frankly. For example, a writer for Breitbart or similar site could take that same sentence and slag it against a real-life white woman who chose to marry a black man. The argument would fit.

Emily Gordon clearly has the patience of a saint because I would have been devastated to be treated like that in an interview. She was incredibly graceful.

I totally understand the authors viewpoint about onscreen relationships, but what people are questioning here is the fact that in this particular film, it’s not a cinema trope, it is a reflection on a real relationship. There are better hills upon which to stake your flag. If the author chooses to talk about this very…

Apparently. And it’s odd because when my relationship because many years ago the person of color in the relationship was the enemy.

Hey, fight the good fight, just make sure it’s actually a fight and not terse words on the internet.

I haven’t seen the Big Sick, so I’m not sure if that’s the case, but I don’t think any brown love interest in Master of None is viewed as just a stereotype. The black woman he dates in the first episode is a full, charming character not reduced to a stereotype. In the episode where he goes on dates, he dates that one…

You have reflected my feelings on the subject. And as a white woman in an interracial relationship, this reads dangerously close to me as criticizing inter-racial dating.

It’s yellow fever when it’s Asians. Know your insulting tropes.

Especially considering Kumail is from a Muslim family and a predominantly Muslim country. In the current climate having a Muslim on screen that isn’t some awful stereotype feels good.

That was my first thought. This doesn’t seem like the right hill to die on...

It’s like she wants to be mad at Kumail but she keeps hiding behind the movie.

And it hits home as a critique of those of us that are in interracial relationships as well. That may not be the intent of the authors of these pieces, but it easily comes across as such. My SO and I are sick of people insinuating our relationship is either a fetish or a cultural malady.

But doesn’t art imitate life? I mean, I’m a white guy so I don’t really know for sure, but it would seem like Pakistani women would be more likely to end up with a white person just because, well, white people are everywhere. I’m 40 years old and have dated many women(and even married one but I kinda regret that one)…

I can see where the author (and others who write about interracial relationships) are coming from, but yes...I also agree with you.

Yeah...I sort of hate that this movie is being used as the laundry line that airs these issues. It’s an important point that deserves to be heard, but this is literally the third article I’ve read online about The Big Sick mainly discussing issues with white women/Asian men onscreen. It starts feeling like a…

THANK YOU. As a biracial woman, I am tired of people saying my parents love was invalid. That it was just serving colonialism or serving to oppress black women. If women of color really do not hold men to be the locus of their lives, then do Kumaili and Aziz really need to represent brown women on screen for them? Let…