WOWOWOW.com, where are the WOC?
May 28, 2008
Looking for another great place to connect to smart women besides TMT? Well, my friends I recently discovered wowOwow.com, where women talk frankly with each other and you.
The site boasts a veritable who’s who of notable women from a variety of areas of interest, including Peggy Noonan, Lesley Stahl, Lily Tomlin, Joan Ganz Cooney (she created Sesame Street), Julia Reed (Newsweek), Marlo Thomas and others. I’m looking forward to spending time on what seems like a well-designed, content-rich site. There are some cool political discussions you may not read elsewhere like why some women won’t vote for a woman president.
My only problem: Whoopi Goldberg is the only woman-of-color (WOC) featured. This lack of color resonates for me because the Sex in the City: The Movie opened on May 30th.
Lord, I loved that show. It was ‘must see TV’ and I planned my schedule around it. Sex debuted at a time in my life when I could relate to being single and older than 20, but I was always bothered by the fact that there wasn’t a WOC in the cast. How could they include New York as the fifth character and not have a Sistah or Latina to add our special flavor to the mix?
Darren Star, the producer, said in a recent interview he included a WOC character in the movie because women across the country demanded it. But, did he make the sister an equal? Oh, no, Jenifer Hudson’s character, Louise, is Carrie’s assistant. That speaks volumes to me about what Hollywood thinks about my life. Guess that’s why I rarely go to the movies anymore. Seems like TV might be the only place you can see positive portrayals of different ethnicities - see Grey’s Anatomy and the George Lopez Show
Enough rant. Who would you suggest Wowowow.com add to their roster?
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