Also best of luck to Hannah's Black baby. These are not mere afterthoughts these are questions at the core of the mixed-race experience. That means something.Īre we really supposed to believe that Hannah - who clearly considers herself tuned in to race issues, in a liberal-arts-school way - would have zero thoughts to share about this?Īlso, will her son have any black role models? Is Hannah prepared to deal with racism? How will she contend with questions about ethnicity when nothing in her own life has prepared her for them? (Fine, the cop is black - bravo.) Specifically, she is raising a black boy, in a society that demonizes and literally kills black boys. Hannah, it seems, will be raising a black kid in what we can assume is a mostly white town. There are larger societal implications of a white woman raising a black kid. If it didn’t happen in our family - a family with actual black people in it - believe me, it didn’t happen for Hannah.Īnd it’s not just about the awkward optics. Meanwhile, my baby son is even lighter thanks to his own genetic mashup. I, for instance, am darker than my white mother and lighter than my black father. But why, then, didn’t the “Girls” team limit their casting call to babies who better fit the profile?ĭubious parenting olympics: Parents who took kids to Trump's White House Easter egg roll vs Parents who casted their black baby on 'Girls'Īnd take it from someone who’s lived it: It’s pretty unlikely that Hannah and Paul-Louis would produce a kid markedly darker than themselves. Sure, casting an infant can be difficult - it’s not all about looks it’s about who behaves best on set. Yet there goes Dunham, tossing racial ambiguity into the mix on “Girls’ ” most important episode ever - and not even bothering to contextualize it. If I wanted Hannah and Marnie’s (Allison Williams) nonwhite equivalents, I could tune in to Issa Rae on “Insecure.”īut given its past failures, you’d think the show would have learned by now to stay far, far away from race issues. “Girls” was what it was and didn’t really need to justify itself. The show presented a world of white affluence and privilege - and I’m OK with that. Remember, this was a show universally criticized for its virtually all-white first season, and it only seemed to embrace inclusiveness reluctantly. Now, it’s true that “Girls” is hardly an identity-politics maverick. Which is why seeing her mother a black kid felt like such a middle finger to my six seasons of fandom. And I particularly loved it this season when Hannah, jolted by an unexpected pregnancy, chose not only to keep her child, but to reject the security of co-parenting with longtime paramour Adam for a far scarier future on her own.Īs a new dad myself - and the son of a single mom - I intuitively felt like Hannah had all the makings of an awesome parent, even amid all her self-loathing and self-doubt. I loved it even as it glorified millennial underachievement. I loved “Girls” despite its refusal to cast almost any minority actors. 'Girl hammers' go viral as women share items they use instead of tools 'Girl measuring' is the viral DIY trend taking over TikTok - except it doesn't really work Girl names like 'Jade' and 'Rose' will be hottest boy names of 2024: experts Teen girls should avoid this food to reduce breast cancer risk: new study
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