Oh the Angry Black Woman (I Blame Pop Culture)

Okay before you read this, go check out this ARTICLE, if you have not already.

It is already bad enough with reality television constantly playing up the image of the Angry & Sassy ("Coming for you again, soon" warning) Black Woman. Here come Ny Times writer,

Alessandra Stanley and her very hurt butt article about her disapproval of the the image of black women Shonda Rhimes uses in her shows. Alessandra Stanley called

Shonda Rhimes, an Angry Black woman for creating non docile black female characters as leads. Stanley does not view Miranda Bailey, Olivia Pope and the newest character added, Annalise Keating as heard working heroines. She gives that compliment to Esther Rolle when she played Florida the maid on Maude & benign mother also lawyer, Clair Huxtable. I want Stanley to watch the beginning video of Clair Huxtable and wonder will she still call her benign. Lord, I just got Clair Huxtable put on Stanley's "Angry Black Woman Lead" list.

When I read this article I immediately thought of this meme.

Even Stanley's beloved Florida Evans on Maude probably wanted to tell her,

 when it came to Stanley's green eyed feeling of  Shonda Rhimes. So unless, Black women are help the women succeed in the background, she should not be seen on scripted television. Or if she not helping the white person be the best they can, she can only be a gentle mother aiding her family through life. Alessandra Stanley lives in a trivial past filled with stereotypes on her television only. Stanley need to turn the past off and go step into the real world. She must have never heard the real Crisis Management, "Fixer", Judy Smith.

I doubt Ms Smith is docile in her job. Stanley clearly has never truly seen a medical or law professor "terrorize" their student into being the best they can. I was a nursing & nutrition student. I have had some terrorizing instructors. I'll take her to Lamar University and let her meet my Basic Foods instructor who took ten points off every time a student said cooking term wrong. When she get's a 30 for the day, I bet she'll understand some instructors are like that. Then she wants to talk about the morals of the characters of Pope & Keating. Where was her morality finger waving when Rhimes introduced up to Addison Montgomery (formerly Shepherd)

on Grey's Anatomy later on the now cancelled Private Practice. Derick Shepherd would've never came to Seattle Grace and met Meredith Grey had Addison never cheated on him. Oh and she complained about the rantings and long speeches of the Angry Black Women leads. Umm remember Meredith Grey's "Choose Me" speech. Am I "nitpicking"?

Those are even the most egregious parts of the article.

"As Annalise, Ms. Davis, 49, is sexual and even sexy, in a slightly menacing way, but the actress doesn't look at all like the typical star of a network drama. Ignoring the narrow beauty standards some African-American women are held to, Ms. Rhimes chose a performer who is older, darker-skinned and less classically beautiful than Ms. Washington, or for that matter Halle Berry, who played an astronaut on the summer mini-series “Extant.”

My mind exploded at  less classically beautiful. So, now Alessandra Stanley is an expert on Black Beauty.

Halle Berry is somewhere, wishing Stanley had not brought her name into this typecast based article. It is Shonda Rhimes' show. She can show the off the wonderful beauty of the Black skin tone rainbow if she wants. Dark-skinned woman, heck any-skinned don't only play servants & sidekicks to white people. Don't let racism and pop culture fool you. There is not one single written down rule about that. If it was, it would still get broken because Hollywood breaks the rules all the time. Then we wonder why a "Dark-Skin Girls" documentary had to be made. Stanley needs to know that is not the Black standard of beauty. That is the White standard of beauty that was fed to all of us. The problem is those that keep eating it and won't feast on another dish.

Now if you think Shonda Rhimes didn't respond to Alessandra Stanley. Huffington post covered it very well  HERE. My Twitter timeline was full of Ms. Rhimes rebuttal tweets and us fans agreeing with her. I loved how she informed the writer & creator of the article. In my opinion, all Alessandra Stanley had to say is, "I don't like Shonda Rhimes work. I prefer the black women characters of the past" when asked to review the new show "How to Get Away With Murder". I did my research on Ms Stanley. This is not her first time not doing her job correctly. She misspelled the name of Everybody Loves Raymond. She accused Geraldo of a nudge that never happened and much more. Maybe that is why she is so hard hitting Shonda Rhimes. She can't do her job correctly so, she'll make somebody else look bad. Alessandra Stanley, you failed, majorly.

Oh Well, this time next week we'll be talking about the Shondaland shows that fill our Thursday primetime lives. Alessandra Stanley's critical piece will fade away. No, I'm not Angry at her. I pray for her and others that continue to ingest the images the Pop Culture that tells are the only proper definitions of people.

I'm sorry, we are All more than that definition, even the definitions.

Always, Talking to You in Adult Terms