You're a young man and today you're going to explain to us,
in great detail, through an article published in an online magazine, why Orange
is the New Black is problematic.
You'll do so with full disclosure of your position as a
young white man who has been afforded a number of educational, professional and
financial opportunities. You'll do so
with candor and love of the things the show does right. But you won't gloss over Genji Kohan's
problematic relationship with notions of privilege, her oftentimes cartoonish
capacity for character development, and the arbitrary formative realities that
occupy the narrative framework of the program.
You'll skillfully deconstruct the manner in which women of color are
stereotyped and, even as they're constructed as a existent threat within the
framework of a system that they are, in society, by and large victimized by,
infantilized and drawn with broad, stereotypical strokes. You'll even dedicate a nice paragraph to the
reduced prominence of the superlative Laverne Cox, both in terms of her plot
significance, and her visibility on the show.
You'll issue a love-letter to a flawed creation that presents something
worthwhile while receiving a bevy of problematic, counterproductive abject
praise, a thoughtful, thoroughly considered piece of writing that you'll have
written alone, in your apartment, largely through the windows of your own
perception, mitigated by the frameworks of the internet.
Within minutes of posting it to the internet, you will be
uncovered by the capital I Internet. You
will be roundly declared a faggot, a racist, a bigot, a homo, a queerfuck, an
ableist, and a trans-phobe. You'll be
told to kill yourself.
We'd recommend you not do so.
Congratulations Strange Little Man!
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