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.

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?

Stop letting your feelings block your reading comprehension. Someone advocating for WOC is not an attack on interracial relationship. That leap in judgment reflects more on you really.

Jealous of what? Please enlighten me.

How is advocating for WOC to be romantic leads considered hateful?

I’m in shock that you read the same article I did and your take away was that the author hates interracial relationships. As a product of an interracial relation and married to another person you came from an interracial relationship (we both pass as different races), I must say, you are a fucking idiot and you…

It’s not attacking interracial relationships. It’s the ‘brown man gets a white girl’ trope. And if you’re a South Asian woman, where the men who look like Kumail and Aziz value European-looking South Asian women, i.e. white skin, and popular culture perpetuates that, it’s a fucking problem. It’s not just about race,…

You shouldnt have to bring reciepts to this dumb shit.

No one’s jealous of anyone.

Yeah, it’s super easy to see it as a trope instead of a deeper issue when white women are depicted as a caricature and “the One” in the same movie. They get to be seen in multiple ways.

We need another open thread because what is this?!

Yep. Look at how the top comment instantly changed the narrative and started a whole other something *they* are more comfortable being outraged about. The article is very efffective in articulating that entertainment centering white women as most desirable is problematic for the ‘other’ (read:browner) cultures. Plain…

Like I said in the first part of my comment, I see where the complaints are coming from, but to say people don’t shit on interracial relationships (particularly when the man is non-white) is a bit naive. I’ve read it here at times and also on The Root. It’s an automatic “Well he got with her because he hates…

Exxxxxactly. This has come up a bunch lately with some other mixed friends and im just like you need to be able to separate your hurt feelings from structural inequality and white supremacy.

I don’t think that’s true. I think most people today who are critical of interracial relationships (and mostly the way they are represented) are reacting to the obstinate naivety that characterized attitudes towards interracial romance during the last generation.

Like, what the hell is happening here?

You aren’t lying about that. For every qualm indian folks (including myself) have about our representation in movies it’s about 10x in the black community.

Welcome to the world of Black woman, where we get NOTHING. Rarely the love interest or aspirational woman to be cherished and loved and protected. Pretty much always the sassy best friend who has no life outside of the white folks on screen. And good damn luck if you’re dark-skinned and rock your natural hair/braids.