Comments on: Q&A: Represent! http://www.malindalo.com/2009/02/qa-represent/ Author Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Malinda http://www.malindalo.com/2009/02/qa-represent/comment-page-1/#comment-1289 Malinda Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:44:36 +0000 http://malindalo.com/blog/2009/02/16/qa-represent/#comment-1289 KT, I don't find many of the women on TLW attractive either, but actually TLW does deserve some props for casting women of color in lead roles. They haven't always done well with their casting choices (Janina Gavankar as Papi, for example, but mostly because Papi was so poorly written), but some decisions were great (Jennifer Beals, Rose Rollins). Pugs, I agree. I really recoil in horror from how thin some of these actresses are on TV! It's disturbing because most TV caters to people's fantasies as escapist viewing, and if mainstream America's fantasies are skinny white women with their ribs showing, well, it's sad. KT, I don’t find many of the women on TLW attractive either, but actually TLW does deserve some props for casting women of color in lead roles. They haven’t always done well with their casting choices (Janina Gavankar as Papi, for example, but mostly because Papi was so poorly written), but some decisions were great (Jennifer Beals, Rose Rollins).

Pugs, I agree. I really recoil in horror from how thin some of these actresses are on TV! It’s disturbing because most TV caters to people’s fantasies as escapist viewing, and if mainstream America’s fantasies are skinny white women with their ribs showing, well, it’s sad.

]]> By: Pugs http://www.malindalo.com/2009/02/qa-represent/comment-page-1/#comment-1288 Pugs Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:10:16 +0000 http://malindalo.com/blog/2009/02/16/qa-represent/#comment-1288 Personally, I think it would be nice to have more actresses that are a "real size" on TV. Period. If they're gay and a minority, that's good. I am a woman "of size" who happens to be white. But I have friends of many different ethnic backgrounds. Wouldn't it be nice to see a TV show that reflected my life? Real people having real friendships regardless of what you look like or where you came from? Personally, I think it would be nice to have more actresses that are a “real size” on TV. Period. If they’re gay and a minority, that’s good. I am a woman “of size” who happens to be white. But I have friends of many different ethnic backgrounds. Wouldn’t it be nice to see a TV show that reflected my life? Real people having real friendships regardless of what you look like or where you came from?

]]> By: KT Horning http://www.malindalo.com/2009/02/qa-represent/comment-page-1/#comment-1287 KT Horning Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:02:45 +0000 http://malindalo.com/blog/2009/02/16/qa-represent/#comment-1287 I remember Margaret Cho saying that when she had her short-lived T.V. series "All American Girl" the producers asked her to lose weight -- to play herself! LOL. And "The L Word" -- puh-leese! As a lesbian, I don't find any of the women on that show attractive except for Pam Grier, who is both a woman of color and a woman of size (which in Hollywood means non-anorexic), but she unfortunately was not cast as one of the lesbians. I stopped watching after Season 2, but didn't they cast one of the rare women-of-color roles on the show with a white actress? I remember Margaret Cho saying that when she had her short-lived T.V. series “All American Girl” the producers asked her to lose weight — to play herself! LOL.

And “The L Word” — puh-leese! As a lesbian, I don’t find any of the women on that show attractive except for Pam Grier, who is both a woman of color and a woman of size (which in Hollywood means non-anorexic), but she unfortunately was not cast as one of the lesbians. I stopped watching after Season 2, but didn’t they cast one of the rare women-of-color roles on the show with a white actress?

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