[ SECRET POST #3923 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3923 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Close Your Eyes]


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03.
[Brooklyn 99]


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04.
[Daredevil, Vanessa Marianna/Wilson Fisk]


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05.
[Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman]


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06.
[A Wrinkle In Time, the forthcoming film]


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07.
[FullMetal Alchemist]













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Comments

[tabaqui]

Sadly, a black man with a white woman is still pretty verboten on tv. But a white man with a black women is a-okay and doesn't threaten anyone, doncherknow.

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't say verboten. Controversial, yes. Certainly more so than any combination of white man/POC woman.

[tabaqui]

Well, let's say 'verboten' to those of the conservative mindset. I mean - do you remember the pearl-clutching hysteria when that Cheerio commercial came out?

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. But I'd say that "verboten on tv" is different than "verboten to the conservative mindset". IA that many socially conservative people feel threatened by interracial couples in general and this one in particular. But it's not so controversial that you never see it. It's just rare.

[tabaqui]

I'm trying to think of a black man/white woman couple on regular TV. Mind, i don't *watch* a lot of regular TV. Luke Cage/Jessica Jones is the only one that comes to mind recently...there was a half-season of that dynamic on Sex in the City years ago....

What couple like that do you know on tv/in the movies?

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I think I see where both of you are coming from... You're right that black man / white woman doesn't show up in tv like ever but I think the other Anon is right in that it's not "forbidden" but more like a controversy companies avoid. Marketing video games to girls "isn't much done" either but it's not quite verboten. Just companies worried about reaction and profits

[(Anonymous)]

Luke Cage/Jessica Jones was the first example that sprang to my mind, too. But there are other examples:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhereDaWhiteWomenAt

[tabaqui]

There are. Not a lot of recent ones, though, which is lame. It's like we just keep sliding backwards.....

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed.

Interracial couples on TV

[(Anonymous)]

The short lived CW series Containment featured two black man/white woman couples, they were supporting characters but they appeared in several episodes and got some character development? Leverage had Hardison and Parker who were awesome! Blanking out on movie examples but there have to be a few.

Re: Interracial couples on TV

[tabaqui]

OMG, how did i forget Leverage?

Probably because Parker/Hardison/Eliot is my ot3 on that show. :)

[(Anonymous)]

And yet, the opposite is what I see more IRL (and, when I see them, white man/black woman couples skew younger).

[tabaqui]

Hee, I've never really noticed. We have a lot of 'mixed' couples here, mostly because of the military base, where so many people from so many states (and countries) mix and mingle. Makes for one of the most diverse communities in the area, and very diverse schools, too, which i *really* liked for the Monstrous Bebe.