Of all the pieces written about a show I cannot relate to (HBO's 'Girls'), Jenna Wortham wrote the only piece I have no trouble relating to.

kenyatta:

jennydeluxe:

My chief beef is not simply that the girls in Girls are white. I’m a white girl and not a white girl, identified by other people as black and not black for as long as I can remember – which, in mixed people speak means biracial. But the problem with Girls is that while the show reaches — and succeeds, in many ways — to show female characters that are not caricatures, it feels alienating, a party of four engineered to appeal to a very specific subset of the television viewing audience, when the show has the potential to be so much bigger than that. And that is a huge fucking disappointment.

And of all of the issues people seem to have with this show — race (see above), gender (Up With Women! Story be damned!), privilege (even this got way too fucking meta) — it’s their presentation of ‘entitlement without judgement’ that makes me cringe. That’s probably because, in my own experience, it rings so true.

That’s also, probably, the secret nugget in its soul that’ll make its audience grow over time.

Notes

  1. afractalparticle reblogged this from newsweek and added:
    Seriously, HBO. You can still have a show with white people (which I know is important to you) even if POC are allowed...
  2. mattlehrer reblogged this from kenyatta
  3. kenyatta reblogged this from jennydeluxe and added:
    issues people seem to have with this show — race (see above), gender (Up With Women! Story be damned!), privilege (even...
  4. see-linewoman reblogged this from annuhwintour
  5. annuhwintour reblogged this from bobbyfinger
  6. bobbyfinger reblogged this from jennydeluxe and added:
    Waited until after watching to read this. Now that I’ve done both, it’s all I feel I need to post about Girls.
  7. mycherieamour reblogged this from newsweek and added:
    I haven’t seen an episode of Girls yet, but I have a feeling that if I do watch it, my feelings will be exactly like...
  8. runbyhubble reblogged this from fatmanatee
  9. quietly-courageous reblogged this from newsweek
  10. schompinaromp reblogged this from newsweek
  11. brittneeymariee reblogged this from newsweek
  12. homeownersinsurancemiami reblogged this from newsweek
  13. iliketodrawexplosions reblogged this from thehairpin
  14. thehairpin reblogged this from jennydeluxe and added:
    Word.