Mindy Kaling Responds to Backlash Over South Asian 'Velma,' Jokes About Misremembering Representation in 'Monsters Inc.'The writer and actress said that the incident forced her to look inward and think about the way other people were responding to her and her body. “I had a reckoning where I’m like, ‘People are scrutinizing [me], and not only are they scrutinizing [me], they’re verbalizing their displeasure with how I look because I don’t look a certain way.
“That kind of dissonance has really affected so much of what I write about [and] the kind of characters I play,” she added. “Almost all of those kinds of things [in my work] come from something really real.”New York Times best-selling author says, is a real and normal character that young viewers can “look to and feel seen.”
“I was obsessed with TV as a kid and it informed my worldview and it informed who I was attracted to. It informed so much, right? And it makes me so happy that this show can be on Netflix, 40 million people can watch it, it’s No. 1 around the world and it stars a girl who is a young, dark-skinned Indian girl,” she said.star says she experienced when she was growing up and looking for representation of different body types on-screen.
“On TV, if you were really thin, then you could be the lead. Otherwise, you had to be like 250 pounds, and you had to be the slapstick comic relief. But what was crazy, what was left out, is just like this range of people which is a majority of American women over the age of 24,” she said. “What if you’re like a [size] 12 and you want to just live your life and look cute and date? At that time, when I wrote Is[in 2011] it was like a no man’s land. That has really changed, I think.
'body positivity' - pathogen.
People dying of hunger is devastating. What is happening in Afghanistan is devastating. Mindy is just being a crybaby bitching about trivial things.
How can a comment be devastating? Being hit with a baseball bat in the head is devastating, not being called fat. Jesus fuck, people are so pussy these days. Ok, it's bad being called that, but devastating? Have a sense of reality.
Devastating? really? I see devastating things happening round the world right now. I dont think a comment about your weight is up there. I also think the first person to know they are a bit fat is the person who is a bit fat. Its no big revelation.
And as the brilliant woman she is, she took that comment and turned it into a successful career and $35 million net worth
Damn a millionaire got called fat..devastating
She’s DEVASTATED that someone told her the truth about her weight
I imagine this affects many actors. You get an audition for an ugly character, fat character, etc. and have to be like, 'Yep, that's me!'
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