After reading the article, I found it very interesting when Projansky and Ono discussed strategic whiteness and pointed out how white centered shows were always on major networks with the most money. Before reading this part, I thought it was unfair to compare The Bachelor and Flavor of Love to begin with because of the fact that the shows were on different networks and the goal of The Bachelor is to find love vs the goal of The Flavor of Love being to find a "wifey". And then I realized that The Flavor of Love is the only version of love about black people so it makes the racism easier to pin down.
However, I feel that we should compare a show like Flavor of Love to that with similar context and simply just change the race of the subject, such as the show Rock of Love. The article talks about how aggressive and angry many of the black women are on Flavor of Love but if you have ever watched the show Rock of Love, you can see that same aggression from the white women, but without the consistent racial comments about being not being "ghetto enough". The Rock of Love shows how not all white people are well-off middle-class like The Bachelor presumes. Many of the women seem to either be struggling musicians or strippers.
That being said, what really needs to change in the media is not trying to assume the background of someone based on what race they are and there is also a need to stop focusing on a person's claim to their identity through the racial stereotypes that are set forth.
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Very interesting point. You're speaking to the way the media frames both racial minorities and working-class bodies as "deviant." We'll talk more about this, possibly today, but definitely the week we discuss "class." Good comment.