Does Mindy Kaling Undermine Indian/South Asian Women?

Mindy Kaling has become really disappointing to me. I used to sympathize with her, especially since it felt like the brown community was overly critical of her. However, after watching her latest show Running Point with Kate Hudson, I understand the backlash she's receiving. As the creator and executive producer of the show, she's made some truly questionable choices.

There isn't a single brown girl in the main cast. Instead, she casts a Latina actress as the "hot dancer," while all the other "hot girl" roles are played by white or Latina actresses. The only two brown women characters are an older Indian auntie who helps one of the players with his game and an overweight Indian woman who runs Sephora or something similar.

Mindy completely missed an opportunity to break stereotypes about brown women. Instead of casting a Latina actress as the dancer, she could have chosen someone like Avantika, Megan Suri, Aparna Brielle, Banita Sandhu, Simone Ashley, Charithra Chandran or another talented and attractive brown actress to shatter these outdated perceptions. But she didn’t. It feels like Mindy genuinely doesn’t see brown women as attractive—not even herself—and it’s honestly sad. I can’t support her anymore.

I truly believe Mindy Kaling sees Indian/South Asian women as inferior to others and genuinely cannot imagine the concept of a hot and sexy Indian woman.

We keep complaining about the poor representation of Indian women, but when most brown people do get a huge platform in Hollywood- they do nothing in their power to change the narrative.

Im honestly so over her at this point......she deserves all the criticism she gets