Issa Rae is pissed off about something

[Ol’Otis]

Didn’t really read it



Issa Rae has a number of projects coming down the pipeline for HBO, including Season 3 of Insecure, a project with author Angela Flournoycalled Sweet Life, and Him or Her, which centers around the dating life of a Black man who identifies as bisexual.

The latter project received quite a bit of blowback from Black men on Twitter, with Rae being called a traitor to her race, an Illuminati member, among other negative things for choosing to tell such a story. She responded with sarcasm to the criticisms:

But in an interview with Deadlinewhere she was asked about the initial response to the series, Rae said that the negativity, coming well before anyone has seen Him or Her, really pissed her off.

“I remember just being pissed all day,” she said. “Sometimes you live in a bubble, you live in a liberal bubble where you think that everyone is open, and in my eyes progressive in a way where there are so many human experiences, black experiences, gender experiences. There are so many stories to tell. The fear that a story like that would be told when it’s the story of so many other people is just absolutely ridiculous. The censorship and the idea that black men can’t be all things and still be black men is just absurd, it is. Telling all types of stories, straight, gay, trans, whatever it is. It’s not an experience that I have. But, I want to see all kinds of stories. We’re just scratching the surface, and there’s plenty of voices beyond me that are going to do that anyway.”

And the person who will be helping Rae tell this particularly complex story about sexual fluidity, is writer Travon Free, who is bisexual. Interesting enough, the Season 1 episode of Insecure where Molly’s boo of the moment, Jared, revealed to her that he had a same-sex experience in the past, inspired Free to come to her with the idea for Him or Her.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

yea fukk that bytch

 

[606onit]

She's been thoroughly dissected before. Nothing she can spew means anything anymore.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

fukk that, bytch.

Make the story about her precious asian men.​

 

[number21]

An agent is doing agent things.

 

[Exlurkernegro]

Ib4someonesaysshelookslikethanos

 

[YamakaSmacker]

Good ol brolic jaw at it again

She could probably crimp a steel pipe with her bicuspids

 

[Dad]

 

[Wiles]

Shorty is a pandering agenda spewing lame


I really wanted her to prove me wrong

 

[ORDER_66]

Guess someone or some people in the black community called her out on that bullshyt and she took it to heart...

Good....

 

[Blankthawtz]

if her teeth come out any further...

 

[ProfessionallyTrill]

How you have perfect teeth but still need braces?

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Any man, don’t care what you are, that supports that shyt is no ally of mine.

c00n ass really wrote that book and wants to act like it doesn’t exist. That’s detrimental to my people.

 

[LezJepzin]

fukk this bytch . I hope all of this shyt blows up in her face.

 

[satam55]

Issa Rae has a number of projects coming down the pipeline for HBO, including Season 3 of Insecure, a project with author Angela Flournoycalled Sweet Life, and Him or Her, which centers around the dating life of a Black man who identifies as bisexual.

The latter project received quite a bit of blowback from Black men on Twitter, with Rae being called a traitor to her race, an Illuminati member, among other negative things for choosing to tell such a story. She responded with sarcasm to the criticisms:

But in an interview with Deadlinewhere she was asked about the initial response to the series, Rae said that the negativity, coming well before anyone has seen Him or Her, really pissed her off.

“I remember just being pissed all day,” she said. “Sometimes you live in a bubble, you live in a liberal bubble where you think that everyone is open, and in my eyes progressive in a way where there are so many human experiences, black experiences, gender experiences. There are so many stories to tell. The fear that a story like that would be told when it’s the story of so many other people is just absolutely ridiculous. The censorship and the idea that black men can’t be all things and still be black men is just absurd, it is. Telling all types of stories, straight, gay, trans, whatever it is. It’s not an experience that I have. But, I want to see all kinds of stories. We’re just scratching the surface, and there’s plenty of voices beyond me that are going to do that anyway.”

And the person who will be helping Rae tell this particularly complex story about sexual fluidity, is writer Travon Free, who is bisexual. Interesting enough, the Season 1 episode of Insecure where Molly’s boo of the moment, Jared, revealed to her that he had a same-sex experience in the past, inspired Free to come to her with the idea for Him or Her.

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