By now all of the smart people have written the smart takes on the New York Times’ television review crediting Shonda Rhimes’ with creatively manipulating the “angry black woman” stereotype. They’ve rightfully pointed out that critic Alessandra Stanley misattributes the creator of the forthcoming show How To Get Away with Murder. Rhimes herself pointed outRead More “What Rhimes With Bad Cultural Analysis?”
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Debbie Downerism: John Oliver and For-Profit Colleges
One of the better things about social media is that if you manage to curate social feeds with just the right balance of entertaining spirits and brilliant intellects, it delivers unto you amazing content you would have otherwise missed. I woke up one of these days — Sunday? Monday? I’m dissertating — to find dozensRead More “Debbie Downerism: John Oliver and For-Profit Colleges”
The Twitter Facts of Life
“You take the good/You take the bad/You take them both/And there you have/The Facts of Life” Usual disclaimer: this may meander. I was born short and never really grew out of it. I also spent all my years as an only child in a relatively stable, quiet little household. We didn’t always have a televisionRead More “The Twitter Facts of Life”