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So I'm just inhaling some dinner and watching from the middle of this show, 2 Broke Girls, which I've never seen but keep hearing is the #1 show in America during NFL football games.
Apparently four guys sit down at a booth at the diner where these two women work as waitresses. Both are white. The four guys are a black guy, an Asian guy, and two white guys. All four men are dressed well, are young and normal looking.
The blonde waitress freaks out when she sees the guys and runs into the pantry where the brunette follows to help her. Apparently, one of the guys is the blonde's ex and it was a bad breakup. The brunette agrees to go outside and get rid of the guys.
So, the brunette says to the blonde, "Which guy was it? The black guy or the Asian guy? Oooh, just joking."
WTF. Is that racist or what? Like a white woman dating a black or Asian guy in the year 2011 (in NYC no less, where the show takes place) is so abnormal in America it's the butt of a joke on the #1 show in America?
Ok. First of all - we hate that show but we just leave the TV on that channel after the previous shows we end up seeing it sometimes. The joke wasn't that a white girl won't date a black or Asian guy - the joke was that this particular white girl wouldn't because she was a trust fund baby, totally sheltered, and a major snob. The joke was that SHE wouldn't date outside her race - not that all white people won't.
I don't like the show at all (I think it's crude and disgusting), but my husband watches it and the theme is that blondie is this sheltered little former-rich girl who has never experienced anything outside of her blonde prada gucci tiffany world. The idea that the character has dated anyone outside of her race is a long shot.
Not saying that makes it funny or appropriate or whatever, but with that background the "joke" makes slightly more sense.
Ok. First of all - we hate that show but we just leave the TV on that channel after the previous shows we end up seeing it sometimes. The joke wasn't that a white girl won't date a black or Asian guy - the joke was that this particular white girl wouldn't because she was a trust fund baby, totally sheltered, and a major snob. The joke was that SHE wouldn't date outside her race - not that all white people won't.
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I don't like the show at all (I think it's crude and disgusting), but my husband watches it and the theme is that blondie is this sheltered little former-rich girl who has never experienced anything outside of her blonde prada gucci tiffany world. The idea that the character has dated anyone outside of her race is a long shot.
Not saying that makes it funny or appropriate or whatever, but with that background the "joke" makes slightly more sense.
Ohhhh. OK. In that context, the joke is actually OK. Thanks.
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I don't like the show at all (I think it's crude and disgusting), but my husband watches it and the theme is that blondie is this sheltered little former-rich girl who has never experienced anything outside of her blonde prada gucci tiffany world. The idea that the character has dated anyone outside of her race is a long shot.
Not saying that makes it funny or appropriate or whatever, but with that background the "joke" makes slightly more sense.
Yeah that's probably it. You see plenty of black guys with white women on TV.
Yeah that's probably it. You see plenty of black guys with white women on TV.
Actually, there's a new show called "I Hate my Teenage Daughter" (or something like that) which features a white woman with a black ex-husband & biracial daughter... show isn't the best, but I was pleased to see an inter-racial family featured on a prime-time sitcom. As a woman who's mostly dated outside her race, I like to see ALL types of families represented on television.
That being said, I think the joke was explained above - and it was definitely not "racist" in that context. I kinda like that show, but apparently I'm alone in my opinion?
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