From the beginning this whole thing has been a bizarre and disgusting display of people fetishizing a guy they’d just as soon call the cops on.

Reign it in cowboy. I’m biracial and I agree with the author. You’ve missed the point of her article completely, which I won’t repeat to you bc she already laid it out pretty well.

Reading slightly too far into this. The writer is saying she seeing herself reflected in the stories and that it’s a trend that she’d like to see changed.

I know this is a true story and all, but this movie coming out weeks after the 2nd season of Master of None is pretty deflating. I’ll eventually watch it, but yeah...

You are super into jumping into things, full of hyperbole and unresolved issues. Actually, I think you are completely literate because I said to stop your feelings from blocking your ability to do that which I know you can do.

As a biracial woman who appreciated this article and its critique of WoC erasure in Hollywood, I wish I could love your comment.

I am biracial and I really appreciated this piece. She is not attacking biracial people, she is (gently) critiquing the idea of white womanhood as aspirational across brown cultures.

When did you become racist and not tell me?

lol girl i see you in my notifications. And yes welcome to the twilight zone

I recognize your feelings, and understand how you got there, but I think that is a giant leap. I think POCs who are critique interracial dating, are mores critiquing the reasons behind it. And to think interracial dating is SOLELY about two horny hearts coming together is naive. People have dating preferences for a…

I CANNOT believe the amount of people here who collectively think this article is an attack on interracial relationships!!!! Am I in the Twilight Zone?

Yeah, also since this article briefly mentioned two other stories of brown men ending up with white women that were fictional, maybe it would have been better to focus on those? I know they may not be as timely since The Big Sick was just released, but considering that those shows aren’t based heavily on a true life…

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.

Let’s not kid ourselves that, for some POC, a White partner is the pinnacle of success. There exists a deep-seated and darkly twisted relationship between POC and White people, spanning all the way back to colonization and subjugation of Black and Brown peoples. So yes, while it might be based on his real life…

As a Pakistani woman myself, I can give this movie a pass for that reason. But either way, I’m tired of seeing brown love interests in American media being passed up for white love interests, mostly because they are portrayed as one-sided caricatures. It’s the same problem I have with Mindy Kaling’s show.

Yeah, the author might look foolish for not knowing this movie is based on a true story. But, what if a black woman said,

I agree but isn’t this particular movie a true story? I don’t think it belongs quite in the same category because it was Kumail’s real life experience with his current partner and not a fictional creation. Thoughts?