REAL!!!!! Why are we still making room for colourism in this day and age.
Also justice for samira mohan
i-pity-da-fool on
“Kamwali” means maid or servant. In a highly classist and castist society this is is insulting.
beatlebee21 on
translation in case u miss the gravity of this crass statement, “kaam wali bai” is (derogatively) being referred to househelp/maids who are usually from underprivileged and socioeconomically poor backgrounds
groovygyal on
Let’s see you Indic
chi_sweetness25 on
What is the original tweet even saying?
TwoFartTooFurious on
Each of them coming in hot with more magnetic screen presence and beauty than the other.
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CustardApple- on
They all look so different though?
Also I looked up ‘kamwali bai’.. what an extremely fucked up thing to continue to put up into the world.
DiMpLe_dolL003 on
Kamwali bai means house maid in Hindi. All the actors here are of Tamil ethnicity. ( Geraldine is half but I doubt they know that ). So they are being both racist and classist.
RollNo1666 on
The brown skinned girls here are finally finally finally getting representation after being pushed away for generations and these ppl are now again calling us “maids” and ugly so that we don’t rise up against the rampant colorism and classism against us… and these women are not even the darkest… indians are so un empathetic and cruel towards their own skintone and I say this as an Indian.. i grew up abroad so I did not know much of this but whenever I went back home to visit or watched my language films I could see how we were pushed aside and never given space in films or worse done brownface to represent us. For example , here is a poster of a Tamil princess, the princess irl was brown but the casting was a paper white princess and worse, brown girls around her to uplift her
And now finally we get representation in media and these accounts run amok calling us ugly/mid
Jerome_larva69 on
In case anyone doesn’t know, “Kam wali bai” is essentially a maid. Such a horrible and sad and shitty take all around. Good for them for calling it out.
Sensitive-Warning956 on
Is the original tweet claiming the castings are colourist and show only a narrow section of Indians?
What actually is this discussion? Can any actual Indian people speak on their perspective
domredditorX on
Since what needs to be said has already been said in this thread so I won’t repeat those points.
“phenotype” — what a crass weaponisation of scientific term used to study genetics in biology. These colorists think borrowing multi-syllable words from science makes their arguments hold more water. Leave science out of your bigotry.
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REAL!!!!! Why are we still making room for colourism in this day and age.
Also justice for samira mohan
“Kamwali” means maid or servant. In a highly classist and castist society this is is insulting.
translation in case u miss the gravity of this crass statement, “kaam wali bai” is (derogatively) being referred to househelp/maids who are usually from underprivileged and socioeconomically poor backgrounds
Let’s see you Indic
What is the original tweet even saying?
Each of them coming in hot with more magnetic screen presence and beauty than the other.
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They all look so different though?
Also I looked up ‘kamwali bai’.. what an extremely fucked up thing to continue to put up into the world.
Kamwali bai means house maid in Hindi. All the actors here are of Tamil ethnicity. ( Geraldine is half but I doubt they know that ). So they are being both racist and classist.
The brown skinned girls here are finally finally finally getting representation after being pushed away for generations and these ppl are now again calling us “maids” and ugly so that we don’t rise up against the rampant colorism and classism against us… and these women are not even the darkest… indians are so un empathetic and cruel towards their own skintone and I say this as an Indian.. i grew up abroad so I did not know much of this but whenever I went back home to visit or watched my language films I could see how we were pushed aside and never given space in films or worse done brownface to represent us. For example , here is a poster of a Tamil princess, the princess irl was brown but the casting was a paper white princess and worse, brown girls around her to uplift her
https://preview.redd.it/547x1n6nxwug1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c749bb49b6fa82d6f8d85bc101317b31483dfd3c
And now finally we get representation in media and these accounts run amok calling us ugly/mid
In case anyone doesn’t know, “Kam wali bai” is essentially a maid. Such a horrible and sad and shitty take all around. Good for them for calling it out.
Is the original tweet claiming the castings are colourist and show only a narrow section of Indians?
What actually is this discussion? Can any actual Indian people speak on their perspective
Since what needs to be said has already been said in this thread so I won’t repeat those points.
“phenotype” — what a crass weaponisation of scientific term used to study genetics in biology. These colorists think borrowing multi-syllable words from science makes their arguments hold more water. Leave science out of your bigotry.