Mindy Kaling...

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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

Um, if that was supposed to be funny, it wasn't. Massive fail.

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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.

I'm just like Mindy - I'm her age, with a similar background. Watch Never Have I Ever and you'll have some great insight into her childhood and why she is the way she is. I 100% get it. I relate to her so much.

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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.

I think I might ask Jeff if you are sock pupating because I follow her on instagram and she has friends, and she especially has a handful of good friends that show up over and over again, including childhood friends. I'm not sure what this weird vendetta against her is that you have. How has Mindy hurt you, PP?

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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.

Hm, I know very few Indian people who have given their children white, Christian names. Even the ones married to white men have given their children easy to pronounce Indian names or names that could come from either culture (lots of Mayas and Nicks out there).

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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.

I think I might ask Jeff if you are sock pupating because I follow her on instagram and she has friends, and she especially has a handful of good friends that show up over and over again, including childhood friends. I'm not sure what this weird vendetta against her is that you have. How has Mindy hurt you, PP?

LOL, puppeting.

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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.

Hm, I know very few Indian people who have given their children white, Christian names. Even the ones married to white men have given their children easy to pronounce Indian names or names that could come from either culture (lots of Mayas and Nicks out there).

I’m the PP who corrected my typo above. I meant to write we have “NOT given our children white, Christian names.” Yeah that was quite the typo! So I agree with you. And that’s why I find Mindy’s naming of her kids very odd.

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Not reading all the pages on this giant thread, but I just want to say...

as obnoxious and insincere as Mindy Kaling is, I will always think she's a win for both chubby girl representation and Indian representation.

She's not my cup of tea but I think seeing chubby women of color do well in the entertainment industry - the worst industry for women - is good for humanity.

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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.

From tv?

There is no f'ing hope for women in this world. It's bad enough men need to abuse us but we do it to ourselves. PP you are such a big part of an important problem.

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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.

I think I might ask Jeff if you are sock puppetingbecause I follow her on instagram and she has friends, and she especially has a handful of good friends that show up over and over again, including childhood friends. I'm not sure what this weird vendetta against her is that you have. How has Mindy hurt you, PP?

You sound normal and balanced... lol. Good lord, go get some fresh air and touch grass.

[Anonymous]

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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.

She seems very phony and has dark, conniving energy, which is typical for a ruthless striver. They smile in your face and screw you over for a leg up.

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I like her, but I don’t like what she’s done to her face. I don’t know if it’s make up or plastic surgery but she looks really harsh with the same frozen expression/smile in every photo.

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This thread is bats-t.
I just rewatched the first season of The Mindy Project on Netflix and it is funnier than I remembered. Laugh out loud funny with very clever dialog, and really edgy in a lot of places. (I really don't like the midwife boyfriend though, that whole plotline stinks.) I think the show fell off a bit in the later seasons, but the first season is SO GOOD.
Really, anyone that doesn't think that show is funny, I question their sense of humor. The dialog is better than the Office (although the satire in the Office is better).

Congrats to Mindy on her new baby. I am super curious whether all the kids have the same father -- she may have banked enough sperm, or frozen fertilized embryos so that they would be 100% siblings -- and who the father(s) is/are -- but I also recognize that it's none of my business. If anyone watches Acupulco, it reminds me a little of the Who's Chad's Father? storyline. I'll be watching for the news to eventually come out in 20 years, right when Katie Holmes' tell-all biography about Tom hits the shelves...

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Anonymous wrote:I’m thoroughly impressed that she had a baby 5 months ago and nobody leaked it, nobody had a clue. She’s got the right group surrounding her!

Me too! Love her kids' names, loved Never Have I Ever.

[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.

Hm, I know very few Indian people who have given their children white, Christian names. Even the ones married to white men have given their children easy to pronounce Indian names or names that could come from either culture (lots of Mayas and Nicks out there).

Mindy is American, and her name is Mindy FFS. Why you think she should name her kids typical Indian names simply based on ethnicity is pretty narrow minded.

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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.

You and Kaling are not the same. Her kids are with her every time she travels. She's surviving just fine.

Plus she’s leagues beyond any of the harpies posting harsh criticisms. She has no idea who you are and doesn’t care because you are nothing to anyone…
maybe your kids love you and care about you but that’s about it.

Their kids don’t love or care about them either. That’s why they’re here, angrily posting about Mindy Kaling of all people.