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2 Broke Girls : 2 Racist/Sexist ?

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I had a bunch of friends over thanksgiving weekend and we happened on a marathon rerun of 2 broke girls season 1...the first few episodes and kinda uneasy jabs were borderline funny but towards the mid-season, it at least sounded to be, pretty deliberate and targeted on specific races and groups.

The idea was reinforced when most of my friends ( a pretty diverse group of races, groups, professions, political and religious beliefs ) collectively complained mid-season to move on to another show.

i read a new yorker review call it so sexist and racist, it is baffling. While i know others out there are groaning with a "lighten up - its just a joke" or "get a sense of humor and lose the political correctness" - its just that at least to me, the punch lines lacked wit, like more lazy cruelty than sparkling humor.

my friends threw popcorn at me when i insisted on continuing with the first season...
 

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2 Broke Girls

I actually like this show...Because it's a breathe of fresh air...I know the rape jokes are wrong...BUT at the end of the day its a comedy and should be taken lightly. How is it different from watching half the other TV shows out there!? :p
 

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I actually like this show...Because it's a breathe of fresh air...I know the rape jokes are wrong...BUT at the end of the day its a comedy and should be taken lightly. How is it different from watching half the other TV shows out there!? :p

Other shows like Family Guy or South Park do have unsavory elements but they do sometimes throw in "positive" stereo-types (if ever there is one) and they are actually funny. But 2 Broke Girls is just horrible racism all the time. The show is badly written and acted, it's surprising it got to season two.
 

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I think saying an Asian guy is small isn't racist or saying he has no penis isn't racist. Or a joke about everyone thinking Asians are good at math (Max: ''He needs Han to solve a complex math problem.'') Is that a racist joke or is it a racial stereotype?
 

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I love the show! Think its hilarious and yes, some of the jokes are racist/sexist/stereotyped but I think its not meant maliciously. I think the writers are seeing how far they can cross the line.

And at least every single group is a target - Asians, Poles, Gays, Latinos, Ukranians, Trailer park trash...the list goes on, lol.

Plus the show gave me this amazing quote :D

 

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I think saying an Asian guy is small isn't racist or saying he has no penis isn't racist. Or a joke about everyone thinking Asians are good at math (Max: ''He needs Han to solve a complex math problem.'') Is that a racist joke or is it a racial stereotype?

Is this perhaps you're not actually Asian? Then what do you actually know about it?

Or perhaps "one of your friends is Asian", so you feel entitled to say such thing?
 

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Is this perhaps you're not actually Asian? Then what do you actually know about it?

Or perhaps "one of your friends is Asian", so you feel entitled to say such thing?

I think people are a bit too hyper-sensitive these days. Stereotypes are a part of life...
 

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I think people are a bit too hyper-sensitive these days. Stereotypes are a part of life...

They've always been...Some people are just too ignorant to notice. I could only hope you're not one of them.
 

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Racial stereotypes are fundamentally racists because it depicts certain race in a narrow and often unflattering manner that tends to dissuade an outsider from learning beyond the pre-digested ignorantly conceived notions.
 

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I think the greatest danger of such "funny" racial stereotypes it that subtly inculcates indifference and insensitivity.
 
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