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Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


meara - Jun 09, 2011 1:17:42 pm PDT #12122 of 30001

So does he. That's not it. He's just not white.

Oh, I'm not saying that means he's white! Just that I was neither startled to see a white guy playing his grandfather, nor would I be startled to see a black woman play his mother. (or for that matter, his father, depending on how his grandma was!)


brenda m - Jun 09, 2011 1:18:25 pm PDT #12123 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Mostly I reheat them and eat the guts. The tortillas rarely survive in edible form.

Unwrap, heat the guts, and then toss the tortilla in (or rewrap) for the last 15 seconds or so.


tommyrot - Jun 09, 2011 1:22:35 pm PDT #12124 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

If someone asks you, "What should I get for the person who has everything?" here's an answer: Giant Ground Sloth For Sale, $450K OBO


§ ita § - Jun 09, 2011 1:40:25 pm PDT #12125 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't get what his green eyes had to do with anything then.

she generally plays characters who date white guys, and her race is not commented upon. I think that means people think of her as white.

Is Eva Mendes white?


Jesse - Jun 09, 2011 1:43:23 pm PDT #12126 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Is Eva Mendes white?

She's not anglo, but she's pretty much white, no? Separating race from ethnicity. (Which I was already talking about at work today, so it's in my head....)


meara - Jun 09, 2011 1:47:41 pm PDT #12127 of 30001

I don't get what his green eyes had to do with anything then.

Makes it less surprising when they have a white guy play his grandfather.


Burrell - Jun 09, 2011 1:57:05 pm PDT #12128 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I don't think it's that we're post racial so much as renegotiating race and racial identity. What would be your prefered way to describe race? (Not directing this comment at anyone in particular.)


Lee - Jun 09, 2011 1:59:19 pm PDT #12129 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

What would be your prefered way to describe race?

Speaking just for myself, the way the person in question wants to describe it.


Jesse - Jun 09, 2011 1:59:31 pm PDT #12130 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OMG, Anthony Weiner's sexts just made me laugh out loud (via the Daily Show).


meara - Jun 09, 2011 2:01:48 pm PDT #12131 of 30001

Your query and ita's mention of Morena Baccarin remind me of a drama a few years ago--I was at a conference and they wanted to do some work around race, and asked all the "people of color" to stay in one room and the people who identified as white to go to another room. And a friend of mine who is Brazilian (but if you didn't know that, would assume is just white, and her accent is American) stayed in the PoC room and some people flipped out. It was interesting (not helped by the fact that that friend had at various times been not the most racially aware/sensitive).