In this video I discuss Mindy Kaling's problematic representation of South Asians/brown women throughout the body of her work.
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On stay at home gf's and why women need to have/make their own money: https://youtu.be/5X8cdreVcfA
On pretty privilege and how Love Is Blind proves it: https://youtu.be/G8oQRdoVOJg
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:33 Mindy's background
03:19 The Office
05:21 The Mindy Project
07:19 The s*x lives of college girls/Velma
11:07 A counter-example: Bridgerton
14:02 Colorism and internalized experiences
16:42 One narrow perspective
20:11 The burden of representation