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She's always making a fool of herself. I get the feeling they were throwing shade at Black women here. Kinda reminds me of that Whoopi Goldberg movie from the 80s that had her thirsting for some white guy that had no interest in her.

[video=youtube;Ghl19lJJ_mA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghl19lJJ_mA[/video]
 

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I'm not gonna lie, the first time I saw this I laughed when she said "you want my number?" because to me it looked sarcastic on her end as if to really say 'whatchu lookin at?' but the second time I saw it I saw something different (basically what you saw) and almost thought I was over analyzing but I see that I didn't
 

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UGH!!!! I'm not even going to click. She's sooooooo annoying. Cannot stand her!!! She's one of the reasons I stopped watching SNL.
 

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This woman is very ugly, especially with that tragic relaxed hair.
 

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Its no surprise why SNL chose her to be on the show. She reinforces stereotypes about black women.

Edit: hey OP! I see you boo! My main man!
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this b!tch couldn't even put a pricy tag on her soul this !!!! was sold for a forty and a jolly rancher.
 

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I was literally just watching a couple clips of Drake's SNL performance and I'm so confused by this lady. She's masculine as hell. She reminds me of Dog the Bounty Hunter. :sidefrown: I know I have issues and your girl be projecting (so don't try to drag me :arrogant:), but I hate seeing unattractive black women in the media, especially when they're making a fool of themselves. I'm not surprised this was the type of black woman they threw on SNL to appease the whiners.
 

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She's always making a fool of herself. I get the feeling they were throwing shade at Black women here. Kinda reminds me of that Whoopi Goldberg movie from the 80s that had her thirsting for some white guy that had no interest in her.

[video=youtube;Ghl19lJJ_mA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghl19lJJ_mA[/video]


Controversy has swirled since Saturday Night Live writer Leslie Jones joked about how her dating life would have been better in the days of slavery. People should stop criticizing her: anything, however uncomfortable, can be subject matter for comedy.


Putting it mildly, it probably hasn’t been the best three days for comic and writer Leslie Jones. On Saturday, she made her Weekend Update debut on Saturday Night Live, delivering an edgy bit about how at 6’0” with non-Hollywood approved looks, she has difficulty dating, but that perhaps she wouldn’t have been single had she been around during slavery. “Back in the slave days, my love life would have better. Master would’ve hooked me up with the best brotha on the plantation,” Jones joked.

And from there, S—t. Got. Rill. Not real, but rill. She continued by saying that not only would she have never been single, but she would be knocked up every nine months and giving birth to super babies like Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. In short, she would’ve been the “#1 slave draft pick.”

Whether we want to accept it out not, this joke is rooted in a truth, her truth as evidenced by this tweet from her Twitter account: “I’m a comic, it is my job to take things and make them funny to make you think. Especially the painful things. Why are y’all so mad. This joke was written from the pain that one night I realized that black men don’t really f—k with me and why am I single. And that in slave days I would have always had a man cause of breeding.”


This complex issue surely could’ve benefited from her having more than the two minutes and fifty seconds she was allotted on Saturday. Still, I think it was clear what she was doing. Via satire, she’s dealing with the pain that permeates her dating life, the pain from society and its projection of the white standards of beauty, and the reality of how her body would have been viewed and used during slavery. The satire, in this case, being why does it take slavery for her to be seen as desirable or useful. Yes, the desirability lies in the ugly truth of her being used for breeding, but isn’t that what satire is about? Ugly truths?


Satire is defined as “the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues,” and I believe with Jones, she used it to shine a light on what it means to be a black woman and beautiful in America. From my personal experience, figuring that out can be a difficult road paved with colorism, the concept of “good hair,” and various other factors and I think it’s worth investigating and sometimes that investigation needs to happen in “mixed company” aka in front of black and white people.



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-why-leslie-jones-can-say-what-she-likes.html
 

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She's such a minstrel show it's not even funny. Wypipo love putting her on a pedestal to portray negative stereotypes of black women.
 

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I saw the commercial where she asked the guy if he wanted her number. It was kinda funny but overall, I honestly think she makes a fool of herself. I know people go in on her looks but I honestly don't even care about that, it's the roles she takes and how she lets herself be represented.
 

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She needs to come out already adn stop playing with her masculine ass. I cringe whenever they have her big butch behind lusting after any uninterested man...black, white, asian, alien.
 

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I took it more as because she has Allstate she feels very confident and can do anything. What was she doing before SNL?
 

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"she’s dealing with the pain that permeates her dating life, the pain from society and its projection of the white standards of beauty,"


White standards? L M A O. Any sane man's standard of beauty, more like it.
 

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Meh , I don't think it's that serious. Anyhow , has anyone else noticed a lot the SNL players popping up in commercials all of a sudden ? I was reading that the producers have inked a deal with a few corporations to start doing in show product placements next season to get the eyes of viewers (like me :highly_amused: !) who dvr the broadcast and skip through all of the commercials and that this is a way to get the audience used to seeing them trying to sell us sh!t.
 

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Yeah I can't stand her. Never saw this commercial until now. She looks a damn mess. But I don't like how they made that white guy look away in disgust. I mean what was even the point of that. They could've had him looked shocked or something, but not turn away with a disgusted face.
 

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Wow she's got an insurance commercial now? I'm sure she got paid handsomely. She's been doing her thing. I wish we saw more of Sasheer though.
 

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I was literally just watching a couple clips of Drake's SNL performance and I'm so confused by this lady. She's masculine as hell. She reminds me of Dog the Bounty Hunter. :sidefrown: I know I have issues and your girl be projecting (so don't try to drag me :arrogant:), but I hate seeing unattractive black women in the media, especially when they're making a fool of themselves. I'm not surprised this was the type of black woman they threw on SNL to appease the whiners.

AHAHAHAHAKIKKIKIKIKIKIKII :triumphant: :triumphant:

But forreals though, I dont give a sh!t what the world sees her as, I dont care how many commercials or TV shows she does, all I know is that I dont even see her as a black woman, black or a woman. She's just this pesky gnat that refuses to go away. #UNBOTHERED fµck her and the people that made it all possible and I'm moving on.
 

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Considering the 1st I've seen her was on Empire (1st season, haven't watched in a while) and I also saw her doing some skits with Drake from SNL were she was doing the same type of flirting. Shrug.

It seems to me that's how her comedic character is supposed to come off as. Flirty, yet domineering. Leslie doesn't represent all BW so I don't see the shade. Leslie is doing Leslie.
 

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I would say that she looks like Gary Coleman and Mr.T had a baby, but i'mma not do that.
 

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Just watched and I'm actually surprised at the analyses. I thought it was going to be something thorough to interpret. It was 2 seconds and seemed to go with the 'air of confidence/pure power with having Allstate' theme they were going for.

The only foul in this commercial is Leslie's hair. I hate it.
 

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The only problem I have with her is that she doesn't get to do the "Melissa McCarthy"--aka, get famous for being a "real woman," and then lose that "realness" to become a glamorpuss.

Leslie's image as this OTT, Glozell-like black woman--who's darker-skinned to boot--will be stuck on her forever.
 
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I can’t stand this woman. She’s always cast in roles like this to reinforce the stereotype that BW are loud, tap dancing & manly-looking always thirsting for unrequited attention from WM. :e4_25:
 

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You know imma fuk you up for this one OP..lol Umm yeah i saw this and why does she look so horrible. She looks like a man.
 

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I like LesDoggg. She gets ridiculed by everyone.

What was she doing before SNL? Comedy for Damn near 30 years.
 

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Definitely stereotypical, but covered up so well you couldn't tell the first time watching it. SMH! :33:
 

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Maybe its me but, nobody on SNL is that funny.
 

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She's always making a fool of herself. I get the feeling they were throwing shade at Black women here. Kinda reminds me of that Whoopi Goldberg movie from the 80s that had her thirsting for some white guy that had no interest in her.

[video=youtube;Ghl19lJJ_mA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghl19lJJ_mA[/video]


You're a dumbass. Coming on to uninterested, intimidated men is part of her shtick. Dont' you watch SNL? Even if she was thirsting over white men, what's it to you? You wouldn't want her if you saw her walking down the street so why you in yo' feelings?
 

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This post is ridiculous and a reach and here come all the other lame ass social media injustice crusaders spilling in, some of whom didn't even watch the damn thing . The commercials was funny. Sit yall moist asses down. I'm rooting for Leslie , she's been in comedy for years, I'm glad she's making it now. Black folks are so wishy washy some time.
 

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She's always making a fool of herself. I get the feeling they were throwing shade at Black women here. Kinda reminds me of that Whoopi Goldberg movie from the 80s that had her thirsting for some white guy that had no interest in her.

[video=youtube;Ghl19lJJ_mA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghl19lJJ_mA[/video]

I'm sorry but I simply don't take the commercial is serious as you're making it out to be. All I see is that All State deciced to give a dark skinned woman with features that arent always promoted & short hair a starring role in a commercial where she jokes around. I'm sure she was paid a good salary to do this ad, and it gives her great exposure. If she was on her knees begging some white man for a date, that would be one thing---but she made a quick joke and kept it moving.

Flirting with a white man doesn't mean a black woman is "thirsting"

Also I think she's a comedian so her job is to be attention seeking & funny, and I think its unfair she's being called "loud".

[MENTION=2373]BasicBlkGirl[/MENTION] I think this was subject you touched on
 

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are we really even having this debate over 2 secs in a 1 min commercial lol?
I didn't get any shade at all and i'm all for a black female comic getting advertising money
 

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She's always making a fool of herself. I get the feeling they were throwing shade at Black women here. Kinda reminds me of that Whoopi Goldberg movie from the 80s that had her thirsting for some white guy that had no interest in her.

[video=youtube;Ghl19lJJ_mA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghl19lJJ_mA[/video]

I mean....isn't that what comedians usually do? lol

I saw it as holding up a looking glass to show brothas how they looked to everyone else when they fall over themselves for latinas and WW from the reject bin. so i was good. :33:
 

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