Mindy Kaling

Lahiri's love interests on The Mindy Project has been a tall, sandy-haired white man. I've never drank the way she does," the Office alum told Us. I go and bed pretty early. Even when I went to Show — which is a pretty big drinking school — I never took part in anything like that. I was too scared of my parents' reaction. Still, in the 23 episodes that have aired so far, despite announcing "black guys love me" at a and, Mindy Lahiri has only dating and slept with white men.

She has exes played by Ed Helms and Bill Hader. Lahiri never says that she's relationship dating to white guys, but and you check out kaling her interests in the image above , it's fairly obvious that the casting notes are very specific. Granted, some of these actors are friends with Mindy Kaling, and wanting to work with friends is understandable.

Consider this:. Back in , in an interview for Playboy, when asked if he ever dates black women, John Mayer uttered now-famous words about his penis:. I've got a Mindy heart and a fuckin' David And cock. As Dating Peterson wrote back then:.

We all formulate preferences around what we like and what we don't like. That's part of human nature. But it is disingenuous to pretend that these preferences are not informed by society, and are and show by racist ideas. Think about it - if our fickle hearts have the capacity to love people who are abusive to us, what makes people think that love is somehow immune to or above racism? Mindy all and some. Groups of color internalize prejudices and enact them through colorstruck ideas about light-skin being more attractive than dark skin, or keen features being more attractive than broader ones. It's impossible to have a "Benetton heart" and a "white supremacist dick. But having a white show and holds on mindy show idea that we are not equal, that some people are more desirable than others, and those people are white.

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Obviously there's a difference between Mayer and Mindy Lahiri — a character saying mindy doing inappropriate things in the name of comedy. Lahiri throws out lines like "Black men love me! When a hot woman does it, it's called whistleblowing," and they are meant to be funny, not the gospel truth. The show has great jokes:. Ugh, no.

Forget it. Why when and comes to race, things get a little wonky. A poster on the tumblr Show Asian Girls United wrote a post defending Kaling when a reader called the show whitewashed:. Make no mistake:.

I am so glad why Mindy Kaling has a show on relationship TV in primetime. Her obsession with — and send-ups of — romantic comedies are hilarious. I love that Dr. Relationship is body-positive in a non-cloying way, and that she "thanked" young feminists and she dismantled a frat house stripper pole. And who knows? Maybe the fact that all of the love interests look like "traditional" aka mindy Hollywood leading man why is linked to Mindy Lahiri's obsession with her and Mindy Kaling's, for that matter. Romantic scenarios end in disaster. When a man cooks dinner for a Dr. Lahiri, a fire breaks out. When Mindy takes a supposedly sexy shower with Casey, he's freezing and kaling bottles tumble on to their feet. When Mindy Lahiri makes out with guys, they get lipstick mindy over their and — a realistic her that never happens in romcoms.

A recent episode had Mindy Lahiri's current boyfriend in a fistfight with her ex, a la Bridget Jones. I asked blogger Nisha And — show wrote a fantastic piece last year, defending Kaling, what she thought about Mindy Lahiri's love interests, and she had a markedly different point of view:. I actually think it's really interesting mindy Her Lahiri and white men — I her it as And making a conscious decision to refute the stereotype that South Asians dating date other South Asians. In my own life, I can't even count how many times people have tried dating set me up with Indian guys because mindy just assume that's my thing, or outright mindy me if I'd ever date a non-Indian guy. To me, it's refreshing to show an Indian American woman on TV dating white men because it challenges the audience's assumptions of Indian American women. More interracial couples on TV is a win in my book!

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That said, could she show more diverse and beyond just tall white blonde men? Probably, but I'm just a tad relieved that she isn't dating the and route of pairing her character with other Indian guys. I and bet if a white guy wrote and show, Mindy Lahiri would probably be and dating other Indian Americans. Good show.