Whitey Ford
05-23-2020, 07:59 PM
Interracial Romance, With Black Women as the Stars
In “Insecure,” “Love Is Blind” and “The Lovebirds,” these leading ladies are pushing back against dating bias in the real world.
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In many ways, these romances push back against racial bias in the real world. In 2014, the online dating site OkCupid updated a study that found that of all the groups on its site, African-American women were considered less desirable than, and received significantly fewer matches than, women of other races. Later, Rae, in a chapter in her book, “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl” took that data head-on. “Black women and Asian men are at the bottom of the dating totem pole in the United States,” she wrote. She added, “If dating were an assortment of Halloween candy, black women and Asian men would be the Tootsie Roll and Candy Corn — the last to be eaten, even if at all.” Now Rae plays Leilani, who works in advertising and is dating a filmmaker (Kumail Nanjiani) in the comedic murder mystery “The Lovebirds,” out on Netflix on May 22.
https://archive.is/0CgUy#selection-655.0-667.26
In “Insecure,” “Love Is Blind” and “The Lovebirds,” these leading ladies are pushing back against dating bias in the real world.
https://i.imgur.com/SPH6bxG.jpg
In many ways, these romances push back against racial bias in the real world. In 2014, the online dating site OkCupid updated a study that found that of all the groups on its site, African-American women were considered less desirable than, and received significantly fewer matches than, women of other races. Later, Rae, in a chapter in her book, “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl” took that data head-on. “Black women and Asian men are at the bottom of the dating totem pole in the United States,” she wrote. She added, “If dating were an assortment of Halloween candy, black women and Asian men would be the Tootsie Roll and Candy Corn — the last to be eaten, even if at all.” Now Rae plays Leilani, who works in advertising and is dating a filmmaker (Kumail Nanjiani) in the comedic murder mystery “The Lovebirds,” out on Netflix on May 22.
https://archive.is/0CgUy#selection-655.0-667.26