I was a nanny, and the people in these novels sound gross - and NOTHING like the nannies I have known. If you want to promote this sickness as "assimilation" then I would ask: "Assimilation to what? Depravity? Vapidity?" If so, congratulations, women "of color" can be just as hateful, harmful and depraved as "white" women. Whoopee! Good for you. And you wonder why so much of the country has contempt for these shallow, classist, racialized narratives.
Nannies need and deserve living wages. Regardless of "race".
And the vast majority are decent human beings who would loathe the creepy protagonists of the novels you described.
Cheer up, Chris. Whenever one of these 'Gonna Move On Up To A White Man' narratives get you down, just remember the next Sally Rooney release is going beat their ass in sales. Marxist, Irish, dresses like a librarian, moved back to her small town, married a math teacher, hates fame, plans to send her children to a state school Sally Rooney is the the literary giant of the Millennial generation, whether she or anyone else likes it for not. (Hark, I think I hear God laughing his ass off.) It's shocking. It appears that no one can write about modern White lives (including White privilege, ignorance, insecurity) better than a talented, honest, emotionally objective White writer. I guess the rest will have to find something else to write about. What could that be? :]
Do you think we should to create a sort of Bechdel test for non-White characters in the media (I.e. two or more Non-White people meet and talk about something other than White people or a Non-White character has a story arc that does not involve a White person). What should we call it?
BTW: I do not like calling myself a person/woman of colour. I prefer Asian/Chinese/Non-White. Referring to most of the world's population as people of colour makes me feel as though we are a variety of stains on a hotel bed sheet.
I was a nanny, and the people in these novels sound gross - and NOTHING like the nannies I have known. If you want to promote this sickness as "assimilation" then I would ask: "Assimilation to what? Depravity? Vapidity?" If so, congratulations, women "of color" can be just as hateful, harmful and depraved as "white" women. Whoopee! Good for you. And you wonder why so much of the country has contempt for these shallow, classist, racialized narratives.
Nannies need and deserve living wages. Regardless of "race".
And the vast majority are decent human beings who would loathe the creepy protagonists of the novels you described.
Cheer up, Chris. Whenever one of these 'Gonna Move On Up To A White Man' narratives get you down, just remember the next Sally Rooney release is going beat their ass in sales. Marxist, Irish, dresses like a librarian, moved back to her small town, married a math teacher, hates fame, plans to send her children to a state school Sally Rooney is the the literary giant of the Millennial generation, whether she or anyone else likes it for not. (Hark, I think I hear God laughing his ass off.) It's shocking. It appears that no one can write about modern White lives (including White privilege, ignorance, insecurity) better than a talented, honest, emotionally objective White writer. I guess the rest will have to find something else to write about. What could that be? :]
Do you think we should to create a sort of Bechdel test for non-White characters in the media (I.e. two or more Non-White people meet and talk about something other than White people or a Non-White character has a story arc that does not involve a White person). What should we call it?
BTW: I do not like calling myself a person/woman of colour. I prefer Asian/Chinese/Non-White. Referring to most of the world's population as people of colour makes me feel as though we are a variety of stains on a hotel bed sheet.
I complained about this in my Metropolitan Review piece too! I’m glad I’m not the only one seeing it.
Oh, Lord... Bring it down. Bring it all down! I'm so sickened by it all.