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Rewatching #Bridgerton 
and I definitely have feelings about how the IR pairings are treated...
and I definitely have feelings about how the IR pairings are treated...
(Spoilers) First off, seems like it’s a huge stretch for anyone in Shondaland to believe in Black love. The duke’s father was callous toward his wife, leaving her to die in childbed after birthing his heir, who he then neglected bc he wasn’t “perfect”
The Duke of Hastings, a fine-ass Black man, eventually marries Daphne Bridgerton, this...sorry to say, childlike plain-faced white woman. Their love is depicted as one of a kind, passionate, ideal. Tbh it reminds me of how a lot of Black men...
will rank damn near any white woman as better than a Black one. Black men have serious issues with wanting proximity to whiteness and prizing white women is part of that. I’m so tired of seeing Black men on TV passionately pursuing white women. Where is the love for us?
And then Marina Thompson, a gorgeous and mysterious cousin, comes to stay with the Featheringtons. She’s Black (light-skinned, so colorism abounds here), and she has suitors flocking to her but it’s initially treated as a shock by her white relatives. 
And then— she’s got a life-ruining secret that comes out and compromises everyone around her. Big surprise, a Black woman, not even a light-skinned one, can’t be innocent and get a happy ending like Daphne Bridgerton.
Marina’s secret love, who we never meet, is depicted as a villain who compromised her and then neglected her because she never got a response to her letters. And then we find that he died in battle but oh, he really did love her. How CONVENIENT. Come ON, #Shondaland .
And then Marina is forced into accepting her dead lover’s brother as a husband to save her and the family’s reputation. A loveless union. How wonderful.
I did love #Bridgerton , it’s fun and frivolous but some of the messaging is so problematic and is so much of what Black women have seen before. I want happy endings for Black women. I want to see Black women loved and desired and respected—by Black men yes, but also in general.
, it’s fun and frivolous but some of the messaging is so problematic and is so much of what Black women have seen before. I want happy endings for Black women. I want to see Black women loved and desired and respected—by Black men yes, but also in general.
I want to see Black women getting what they want and not having to settle or struggle. It’s TV. Give me something more to see onscreen than what I already deal with in my day to day, damn! #Bridgerton
