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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Watched the fourth episode last night. Meh.

Charlotte's arc felt a little white savior-y. She has no black friends but she's able to pull her new black friend's chestnuts out of the fire with her mother-in-law and suddenly she's "in" with the sisters? Uhhh...

And if Carrie is devastated by the loss of Big, it's hard to tell.

Miranda's prof opening up to her about IVF and maybe not wanting a child at all? They've known each other what? Weeks?

I happen to be simultaneously binging Insecure and while it's not perfect, holy cow, the quality differences are so dang stark. [/quote]

I don’t think this episode was white savior-y for Charlotte.  Part of being a “white savior” is inserting yourself into a situation that isn’t about you and where your help is not needed because you believe on a certain level that, as a white person, you can “save” a black person from some situation.  Miranda was a classic white savior in the first or second episode where she inserts herself into the situation with her professor and the security guard - her professor has the situation under control and didn’t want Miranda’s help in the moment, but Miranda decided to just in anyway to be the white hero calling out what she perceived as racist.

In this episode, Charlotte was responded to a comment made to her, and therefore was not gratuitously inserting herself into the situation.  The situation also was not at all race-based (which doesn’t wholly negate “white savior” but strongly cuts against it).  Lisa’s MIL was attempting to use Charlotte as a weapon against Lisa.  Instead of sitting back and let it happen, Charlotte responded to defend her friend in a situation that Charlotte had already been dragged into.

[b]I think the message of that scene was something entirely different.  When Charlotte was trying to put on a show of knowing Black authors, etc., it was transparent and made everyone uncomfortable.  It was when Charlotte stopped performing and was authentic in her love and knowledge of art that she really made connections with other people.  This was in part because when talking about something she’s passionate about, she demonstrated an obvious familiarity with Black artists, not because they are Black but because they are great artists.  She may have a lot of learning/work to do on issues of racism, but she knocked down a big wall (for herself and in how others saw her) by not “othering” Black artists and their work in that moment.[/b][/quote]

Well said.[/quote]

I can see that. Though I think it might be a kinder interpretation than the show (thus far) deserves. You could also argue that the writers could have given C a similar opportunity to knock down a wall in a one-to-one way (directly with Lisa) that would have advanced the friendship without complicating the moment with performance notes. Why was it necessary to bring the MIL into it? Why did it have to be in front of a room full of Lisa's people?[/quote]

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