Is ‘Modern Love’ Only for White Women?

[hewontgo]

Not one woman of color was a love interest 🙄https://t.co/AYIZtTJYHf
- Zora (@zoramag) October 24, 2019
The show had a total exclusion of Black, brown, and Indigenous women as love interests

Comments

[foxtree]

Is it any surprise though? Look at the rise of women centered projects the past few years that get hype and/or acclaim, it's mostly all starring white women. Big Little Lies, that Megyn Kelly movie, and the upcoming Elizabeth Holmes movie, etc. I feel like every list of new book releases that I see features a novel about a well off white woman who's deeply upset about some shit that's her own damn fault, with a shallow nod to her being "woke" somewhere in the book.

And of course content created by white women would feature men of color while ignoring WOC, lbr.

[sandstorm]

MTE

[2cutelena]

Is that my Azula in your icon? I have hopes that AtLA Netflix live action will not be white washed like the movie.

[devourlove]

oop

[vulcan_rhapsody]

I looked forward to this show, but was disappointed. It often felt contrived and lacked subtlety.

[sashwizzled]

The fact that it's called modern love and it's entirely cishet is fucking hilarious, honestly

[sparklytootsie]

there's very little media about/featuring specifically lesbian characters these days. it's all been subsumed into the larger "wlw" umbrella. whilst i realise bisexual women and lesbians aren't in competition with each other, share experiences, etc it really grates.

[queenhinata]

these shows are always so unrealistic: taking place in NYC or another metropolitan city yet the only women are white. okayyy.

[frankthesheep]

The boss stops her life to be a professional black best friend? They weren't even trying to hide their hatred of black women.