Mindy Kaling...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is selfish sorry. It's not like she's adopting. I have three kids, my husband does 50% and we're barely surviving. And I have a lot of money to throw at childcare. Your kid wants you not a nanny.

What does adopting or not adopting have to do with anything? You mean adopted kids should get the selfish moms, the crumbs?

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Anonymous wrote:Why all the hate? She is an impressive Ivy graduate with an incredible career who made the choice to be a single mother. She has the brains and the resources to raise wonderful children. Good for her!!

I do wonder why she never got married though. She is pretty and smart!

She is literally not funny. She got lucky being on The office. She is annoying. Her and her brother are obnoxious and ruthless strivers.

She wasn’t just “on” The Office, she was a head writer. She wrote 26 episodes more than any other writer. So give credit where it is due, at least. She got her start writing/performing her own work, and that led to The Office. You don’t have to like her but to say she was lucky to be “on” a show she helped to write and shape and guide is absurd.

Sure she did. We all know ruthless strivers would never exaggerate their role in anything or weaponize being an underrepresented person in a white male dominated space. It's just pure coincidence she's never made anyone laugh or showcased any talent what so ever after The Office. Must have wasted 100% of her genius on that show. lol

Ummmm…
So are you one of the four people who DIDNT watch her wildly successful sitcom AFTER the Office (The Mindy Project) that ran for SIX seasons—in which she starred, executive produced, and wrote basically the entire show????

Seriously this has to be a troll post to suggest she hasn’t showcased any talent whatsoever post The Office. SMH

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She’s good at what she does, has broken barriers, and has made stars of fellow South Asians like Maitreyi Ramakrishnan. I just do not understand her apparent desire to suppress her own identity though - can’t get much whiter than the names Katherine, Spencer, and Anne (not to mention shortening her name to Kaling).

Don’t you though?
She isn’t Gen Z or Gen Alpha.

She’s Gen X.

I sort of don’t get this. How involved was her family in the Indian community? To me she is just living the life of a successful rich girl from a rich Boston suburb who made a shit ton of money and who likes nice things and has good taste. Mindy grew up the child of doctors in Weston MA, which in the 80s/90s was the richest suburb in Boston. She went to NCDS for middle school, a super expensive catholic school, and BBN for high school, a super academically elite super expensive private school. Both were VASTLY white in the 1980s and 90s. Then she went to Dartmouth, which is super elitist and also mostly white in the 1990s. Mindy projects rich white lady because that is what she grew up with! I don’t think it’s anti south asian. She is in fact very pro south Asian on the shows she developed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She’s good at what she does, has broken barriers, and has made stars of fellow South Asians like Maitreyi Ramakrishnan. I just do not understand her apparent desire to suppress her own identity though - can’t get much whiter than the names Katherine, Spencer, and Anne (not to mention shortening her name to Kaling).

Don’t you though?
She isn’t Gen Z or Gen Alpha.

She’s Gen X.

What does this mean?

[Anonymous]

There’s something about her I don’t like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s something about her I don’t like.

I want to like her and I think she is talented, but I can't truly like her either. If I had to armchair analyze, she comes off as being pretty immature and with a VERY fragile sense of sense. Ragingly insecure and desperate to be loved and admired and be something she is not. She doesn't seem like she has many friends and it everything is about her all the time. She seems like she puts on a sweet persona but would also be the first one to get a bit of attention from a popular person and turn around and call you a fat, ugly whore. Her vibe is...not right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s something about her I don’t like.

She’s repulsive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why all the hate? She is an impressive Ivy graduate with an incredible career who made the choice to be a single mother. She has the brains and the resources to raise wonderful children. Good for her!!

I do wonder why she never got married though. She is pretty and smart!

She is literally not funny. She got lucky being on The office. She is annoying. Her and her brother are obnoxious and ruthless strivers.

She wasn’t just “on” The Office, she was a head writer. She wrote 26 episodes more than any other writer. So give credit where it is due, at least. She got her start writing/performing her own work, and that led to The Office. You don’t have to like her but to say she was lucky to be “on” a show she helped to write and shape and guide is absurd.

Sure she did. We all know ruthless strivers would never exaggerate their role in anything or weaponize being an underrepresented person in a white male dominated space. It's just pure coincidence she's never made anyone laugh or showcased any talent what so ever after The Office. Must have wasted 100% of her genius on that show. lol

Ummmm…
So are you one of the four people who DIDNT watch her wildly successful sitcom AFTER the Office (The Mindy Project) that ran for SIX seasons—in which she starred, executive produced, and wrote basically the entire show????

Seriously this has to be a troll post to suggest she hasn’t showcased any talent whatsoever post The Office. SMH

The terrible ratings of her astroturfed show were the only thing funny about it.

[Anonymous]

Look at the shallow status obsessed strivers defending her… IVY LEAGUE… THE OFFICE… she was an EXECUTIVE PRODUCER… who the f*** cares. Resume of padded accomplishments and status symbols and failing up. She is annoying, creepy and unfunny.

[Anonymous]

Wow this thread is weird. Totally random sample of one but I loved The Mindy Project, loved SLOCG, loved NHIV, basically everything she's done!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s something about her I don’t like.

Same.

Maybe bc she’s always playing the same sarcastic, eyes rolling character so I assume that’s her actual self too.

[Anonymous]

I loved the show The Sex Lives of College Girls, created by Kaling. It’s on HBO Max. Terrible title, but I thought the show was hilarious and great and made me a Kaling fan.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She’s good at what she does, has broken barriers, and has made stars of fellow South Asians like Maitreyi Ramakrishnan. I just do not understand her apparent desire to suppress her own identity though - can’t get much whiter than the names Katherine, Spencer, and Anne (not to mention shortening her name to Kaling).

Don’t you though?
She isn’t Gen Z or Gen Alpha.

She’s Gen X.

I sort of don’t get this. How involved was her family in the Indian community? To me she is just living the life of a successful rich girl from a rich Boston suburb who made a shit ton of money and who likes nice things and has good taste. Mindy grew up the child of doctors in Weston MA, which in the 80s/90s was the richest suburb in Boston. She went to NCDS for middle school, a super expensive catholic school, and BBN for high school, a super academically elite super expensive private school. Both were VASTLY white in the 1980s and 90s. Then she went to Dartmouth, which is super elitist and also mostly white in the 1990s. Mindy projects rich white lady because that is what she grew up with! I don’t think it’s anti south asian. She is in fact very pro south Asian on the shows she developed.

Most of us South Asian Gen Xers grew up in similarly (or more) white environments. But most of us - at least the ones I know - have given our children European, Christian names. I agree about her shows, though, so I find the contrast puzzling.

[Anonymous]

^ That was supposed to say “have NOT given our children European, Christian names.” Does DCUM not have an edit function?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ That was supposed to say “have NOT given our children European, Christian names.” Does DCUM not have an edit function?

No edit function, it's annoying.

I like Mindy's shows, but in her real life and in her shows she kind of throws out some representation but then it all comes back to her and her characters appealing to white men. Mindy seems to really revere white men. She chose only white men as the father of her kids and they have very European, Christian names. It's a little off putting she's almost sycophantic towards them and kills a bit of the "girl boss" feminist thing at least as it pertains to her directly. I think her relationship to white women is also pretty fraught with issues and had little to do with her being a target of their racism and more them being a more common object of her ultimate coup, the white man's desire. She's got a lot going on I think. There are a lot of articles about this.