^^^This. We absolutely have white privilege. I think there's a taboo against being angry while being female in general (shoot, women in my family were punished for feeling anger, much less expressing it), but WOC bear the double yoke of racism and sexism. And from my perspective growing up in economic and white…

Can I just say how much I appreciate this? I originally replied that I loved those characters and didn't see them as 'ABW' then deleted it for good reason.

I was STARING at Viola Davis's picture up there wondering in what way she is not beautiful. Light skinned is pretty much the only metric here.

As a side note, Dr. Bailey was and IS the best character on tv. Compassionate, with her own demons, expecting the best from others and herself, an incredible surgeon and doctor while still being a single mother!

I just want to draw some quick attention to this line from Stanley's NYT piece (emphasis mine):

What? Characters on a show can have more than one aspect that defines them? But how can I understand a show with complex characters? It is almost like you are trying to get me to think POC are PEOPLE.

I'm a Shonda Rhimes expert, a Shondaco PhD, if you will. And I can tell you with full confidence that these claims are a fantasy and a projection of Mrs. Stanley's pitiable mind.

Lord. Does this woman even watch these shows?

The best thing about Shonda is that her characters, all of them, are so deeply human. Shonda isn't reinventing the black woman, she's showing them as they actually are, for the first time. Black women are complex and vulnerable. All women are. Shonda has done so much for…

Can we start a Kickstarter for chairs? Thousands and thousands of chairs so that Stanley can have all the seats she needs to have.

Kara, you have been fucking killing it. Thank you and don't stop. It's absolutely appreciated.

I just can't with this shit anymore. I know the writers here tried to stop it before, but these fucking trolls are the worst. Good-bye.

Thanks for breaking this down since I was kind of too angry about it to think this critically. I think she also called Nicole Beharie, who is the lead on Sleepy Hollow, a sidekick. Seriously, fuck that noise.

This is ridiculous considering the character most like her by her own words is Christina Yang.

Excellent article, Kara.

When Alessandra Stanley writes her autobiography, it should be called "How to Make a Black Woman Angry."

Gawker isn't Jezebel. The two groups are pretty separate. There. Defended.

Hope Solo is a pretty big deal in women's soccer. And among soccer fans I know, the USA women's soccer team is a pretty big deal because we always do well.

She absolutely should be suspended. She's proven to be an abusive, loose cannon several times over. I'd venture to say that she should be kicked off the national team as well—I don't want her representing my country.

But I didn't even know she was playing professionally—I had no idea this league existed, nor anything…

I had completely forgotten about this. Possibly due to all the horrifying things that have been in the news since then. But yeah, she shouldn't be allowed to play just because she could possibly win a championship or whatever.

Even America's Next Top Model has a zero tolerance policy for violence. Somebody was just kicked out last week for drunkenly threatening and head butting another contestant. When ANTM holds any amount of moral superiority over another organization, you know there are problems.