I hope HBO’s Girls stays white and upper middle class and cosseted. PLEASE Jeebus (if you actually exist) let the producers keep portraying New York as a homogenized playground and source of irritation, jealousy & really horrendous sex for the characters. I mean The Wire and Treme are enough diversity to last a lifetime on HBO, amirite?
I watched the show and shit, it’s their world. Overeducated, privileged and cluelessly living in a world of carefully selected group affirmation. BRING IT ON!
Let’s be honest…is it fair to expect Dunham & her writers to attempt to represent a multi-ethnic world populated with people from different classes & races when they may not even know how to articulate that life in an entertaining, honest way? No. There are limits to the world being yours. Might as well embrace it.
Besides why should they take on that onerous burden?
Success can mean a lot of things but it doesn’t have to mean acknowledging you may live in a world that doesn’t affirm your hopes & dreams every fucking minute of the day. It’s the American Dream, right?
Again: The producers can stay true to their vision and also provide taped evidence of why Think Like A Man is the #1 movie this weekend. As for Girls writer Lesley Arfin’s very fucked up tweet* about how the movie Precious didn’t have any representations of her….she knows damn well she was all up in Precious — Mo’Nique‘s cruel, abusive, mean-spirited character of Mary Jones was based on her!
*She deleted the tweet which is very funny. I hope she finds a way to incorporate this into the show.
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Strong point on how unlikely it is that the writers of this show could honestly portray cultures they (probably) know very little about. I wrote a bit about this, too – http://frustratedhypocrite.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/the-truer-truth-about-girls-and-race/ As for Arfin, here she is: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lMs9w-EpPiM/S4opQMx5o1I/AAAAAAAACuI/4faYEDs5dA8/S220-h/Photo+17.jpg … I’ll leave it to you to decide what stereotype she resembles.