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The New York Times has a long history of woman bashing.
Damn liberal media!
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Call it Old Gray Lady privilege!
Perhaps someone should ask Stanley if he has a problem with shows that feature “a powerful, intimidating black woman” and if so, why?
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Soooo, someone sticks their finger in your eye, and when you smack their hand, YOU are the angry one???
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Alessandra Stanley is the Maureen Dowd of television critics, and has been, for some time now.
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Yeah, and the Times critic is a woman herself.
I guess this means the use of irony is dead, huh?
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The Times? Don’t read it…
Call her angry, then push her buttons. Someone is messing with someone else.
Hey, why should I have to read an entire column and put a quote in context before I get offended by it?
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Peter principal on display at the NY Times. . .
Much ado about nothing. Stanley’s suggested title did not bash Rimes, but the prevailing belief that an African-American woman cannot stand up and be strong without being angry.
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Stanley is a woman. If you were capable of actual reading comprehension, you would have already known that. But I suspect that you, like many others, were too fooled by this blind “outrage” to even bother reading the piece SHE wrote. Yet another low-information commenter (and sadly, voter)
Prove it. Otherwise, you’re just another senseless lemming spouting off nonsense, fooled by blind “outrage” over a topic you didn’t even bother to read, much less comprehend. If you had, you’d see the point she was making was the opposite of your idea of “bashing”.
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Alessandra Stanley’s piece keeps saying, “the thing that so great about Rimes’ women characters is that they don’t talk about their being black.” IN fact the only person who talks about them being black is Stanley. She just can’t get over the fact that they’re black and strong and tough and all that. It’s very tedious and from another era. But this is a woman who wrote about taking her daughter on an expensive vacation for the NYT and began her piece this way: “One of the good things about divorce is that you get to see less of your children.” http://www.travel.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/travel/a-mother-daughter-spring-break-on-fisher-island-florida.html
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Oh get over yourself because the question still stands: Stanley - whether a woman or a man - needs to answer if he/she has a problem with shows that feature “a powerful, intimidating black woman” and if so, why?
No, what it is, is link-bait and exploitative. And, well, racist. Just because Rhimes is a black woman does not mean that tying her into the low-hanging fruit of a meme of being angry is valid.
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Hey, Tony,
You take umbrage at; you give umbrage to.
Does TPM own a copy of Webster’s or Words into Type?