• lemmiter@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Not trying to be racist but it’s almost always a man and a woman who are both White - and probably a Black side character if they are feeling generous.

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      11 months ago

      They have ones with black protagonists, the white ones just have a few token black people, often for comic relief. This is TV for Karens essentially.

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      11 months ago

      The channel viewership is 99.999% overweight to obese older white women. This is functionally their porn.

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      11 months ago

      If they do have an interracial couple it’s always a black man with a white woman. Never the other way around.

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        11 months ago

        gotta get that bbc.

        British Broadcast Corporation - they’ll sure give Hallmark a run for their money.

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      11 months ago

      Hollywood’s (meaning movie and TV producers in general) default is white and straight.

      The hetero norm is changing slowly, but the white norm is still very much a thing. Typically for a movie to feature a predominantly POC cast, it’s directed by a POC and listed as a POC movie, rather than just… well, a movie.