Both Di Novi's latest and Obsessed pit a crazy white lady — an aggressively white lady, at that — against a woman of color.
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Of course, there's a risk that a whole lot of women will watch and think: I'm a well-intentioned white lady, but I'm not like that well-intentioned white lady.
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"I'm just an old white lady from Illinois," she said.
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The story of White Lady Lane is a tragic one.
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"Yeah: I'm a white lady," she said, an audible shrug.
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Yet another white lady upset over what black people were doing.
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" They warn us to avoid the Sweet White Lady: "She's DEATH.
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If we're wearing White lady hair, isn't that appropriation as well?
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I stop trying by the time I get to the White Lady.
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And I'm not blaming the white lady, she needed a cab too.
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Jones My mom saw it, and my mom is a white lady.
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Emira mostly thinks of Alix as a dorky white lady, a mom.
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Of course, this inevitably led to a protest rap by a white lady.
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VM: I'll ask the annoying white lady "What can I do?" question now.
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I'm simply a middle-aged white lady with a dabber in her hand.
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So, what links the White Lady, the Martini, and all these other delights?
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Last year, our customers felt like it was a white lady on the shirt.
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Then I had this older white lady, and she wanted to teach me notes.
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She can say almost whatever she wants because she's a white lady talking race.
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"White lady calls the cops on a black lady, I get it," Klein said.
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Bringing in a white lady doesn't magically make up for erasing a person of color.
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I went through an agency, and they paired me up with a young [white] lady.
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It does away with the harmless White Lady but retains the awkward Saracen-versus-Crusader element.
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Sightings include a "gray man" and a "white lady" wandering the castle's halls and manicured gardens.
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How Black Oakland responds to a white lady calling the cops on Black folks BBQing... pic.twitter.
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And my grandfather, during the war, was stationed in a English town that had a White Lady.
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The other day, I had a White Lady, followed by a Love Thrill and a Hanky Panky.
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The White Lady was not invented at the Savoy, and a spritz of mystery surrounds its birth.
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Some will cheer at that sequence, enjoying seeing the white lady squirm as her inner "racist" is revealed.
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Is this a traumatized victim, or has Laurie morphed into something else—a hateful, isolated old white lady?
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But before such "heated" bouts of lunar comeuppance, Huppert takes the "clueless white lady" trope to hilarious extremes.
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My kids get endless joy from the fact that my name is middle-aged bossy white lady joke.
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"Where are your turbans and beards?" a white lady asks him at a campground at Lake Capote, Colo.
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" Brian looked back at the white lady, and indeed she looked impressed by his use of the word "monolith.
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He didn't go, and apparently my granddad heard the White Lady scream, and saw her in a medical ward.
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Beneath another sat a plaque for Enid A. Haupt, an elegant white lady in a powder-pink dress coat.
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At one point, Mamie speaks movingly about having been afraid to bathe an old white lady in her care.
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At the same time, if you are an American white lady, that's the only story you have to offer.
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If a white lady in tears can't get justice, then there's no hope for my black [expletive] in Jordans.
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The White Lady remains the original of these mobile restaurants, and although Max has capitalized on the interest by expanding the family empire to include two event carts and a day-time burger joint near the ferry building, he maintains that the style and intention of The White Lady has not changed.
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A woman was walking across the lobby as I was trying to dissuade him, a white lady, an older lady.
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I'm aware that in the court of public opinion on my ethnicity at this point I am the white lady.
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" He asked his filmmakers constantly, "What will make a 70-year-old white lady in Peoria care about this film?
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I'm a liberal Democrat, 65, a white lady living on Social Security and the salary from a part-time job.
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From the safety of my cis-white-lady privilege, it was much safer to focus on the othering of another group.
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My therapist probably scrawls "White lady seems to be momentarily over her first world problems" in her notebook after I leave.
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And here's my family: White dude and white lady with two white kids live in fairly affluent area of Los Angeles.
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When that wealthy white lady put together a petition, gathering signatures at $2 apiece, our project was put to a vote.
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"Aye, there she is — there's the White Lady," Ms. Dunlop said with a laugh, suggesting Ginger had seen the bridge's ghost.
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The White Lady (Ida Nevasayneva) presides graciously over the nuptial celebrations, which, though occurring in Provence, are danced in Hungarian style.
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The GOP's continued efforts to "snuff out" Obamacare don't just affect me, some random white lady who has an esoteric brain disorder.
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But Orange Is the New Black wanted to use one upper-class white lady as its window into the prison industrial complex.
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He confronted the woman, calling her "an old white lady" (attacks on age and ethnicity are considered hate speech in some quarters).
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Her name was June, and she was a tiny redhead white lady who named herself Magdalena and danced Flamenco in Los Angeles.
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Nicolas Cage eventually comes to the realization that the Crusades might actually be bad, but only after he accidentally stabs a white lady.
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To be as loose and crazy and unstoppable as those white lady performance artists like Karen Finley and Holly Hughes and Marina Abramović.
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The thrower, a winking white lady who shouts, "Have a cola and smile, bitch," becomes a viral internet hero, and Cassius becomes her punchline.
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They're about things that we don't have labels for or some white lady hasn't figured out how to put that into a genre yet.
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Not since the last time The View had an overprivileged, rich, conservative, cute white lady have I enjoyed this stupid, stupid show so much.
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Legend also insists that he buried a White Lady, presumably coffined in its shaker, inside a wall of the Savoy, like a time capsule.
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When she steals a newspaper from Miss Susan, the white lady her mother works for, it ignites a dream that won't fit inside her hometown.
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Unlike the White Lady or the Black Eyed Children, the Hat Man doesn't rapidly appear and disappear — some people describe seeing him all their lives.
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I don't read Goop for the science (I read it because I'm a bougie white lady who wants to daydream about obscenely expensive beige clothes).
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Not five mins later a truck pulls up and a white lady screams at us, she then jumps out of her truck with a Gun.
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An older white lady asked me about the book, and I gave her a summary and mentioned I had a personal connection to the author.
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Sharapova painted a shorthand cultural picture we have come to understand very well, in which a dainty white lady is menaced by a hulking black specter.
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The gang fight both an old drunk white lady and a homophobic (and likely racist) man who was either in the military or wanted to be.
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"I grew up being told it was common knowledge that some crazy white lady cut her husband's penis off in a fit of vengeance," he said.
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" To him, Jenner is just a "powerful white woman who basically did a lateral move," going from "a guy who has money to a powerful, rich white lady.
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Comedian Corey Holcomb says Maria Bamford's restraining order request against President Trump is just a publicity stunt that she can get away with because she's a white lady.
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Other stories of the White Lady suggest she is a grieving mother who was somehow responsible for her own children's deaths and, in turn, took her own life.
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In 1987 at the age of 7, my twin brother, John, was accused of shoplifting from a big box store in Greensboro, N.C., by an older white lady.
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But no one thought to ask whether a rich white lady singing a song written for her daughter was appropriate for remembrance of a black civil rights leader.
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Mr. Owens's theory is popular among some local residents, who grew up hearing stories about the "White Lady of Overtoun," the grieving widow of John White, James's son.
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As a nice white lady explains on the television, the path to equality lies in black people "bettering themselves" and proving their worth, not by "pushing" into white society.
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Their clothes, their houses, their over-the-top rich (mostly) white lady-ness — they all blend together in an effervescent fantasy of wanting to know them and be them.
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It seems like every Aucklander has a story about The White Lady, particularly to Max Washer, the third generation son of the family-owned, late-night street food icon.
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I get that there is no workable TV solution at this point that doesn't involve June becoming the nice white lady equivalent to Harriet Tubman, spiriting children out of Gilead.
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It seems like every town in the U.S. claims some otherworldly entity as its own, from the White Lady of Union Cemetery to the Jersey Devil to Point Pleasant's Mothman.
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Cops searching for Charlie Sheen's ex, Brooke Mueller, in Salt Lake City got a report of a white lady beating 2 kids, along with a rundown of her fashion sense.
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A second-grade-teacher-looking white lady bustles around the room, moving books from a cart to a shelf, stopping to lean over kids and recommend them picture books or whatever.
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Which then puts me in the weird position of being a white lady who should shut up and learn, and also a professional critic who needs to talk about this play.
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"I get that," Brian said, looking back at the white lady, who did not seem especially interested in the conversation, but who responded to Brian's attention by slumping farther into her book.
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The hugely viral tweet spurred a ton of hilarious responses, lampooning the "white lady in Fall" aesthetic and making a ton of rather negative assumptions about the two women in the photo.
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"I'd be saying my super raps, and this 250-year-old white lady would be looking like, 'I can't wait till the Rolling Stones come on,'" he said to MTV in 22.
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"How Black Oakland responds to a white lady calling the cops on Black folks BBQing," a Twitter user wrote, with a video showing a group people dancing and eating along the water.
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One friend told me her most memorable White Lady night ended on a stripper pole, and another simply said he had no good stories because he only visited when his memory was faded.
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Her behavior doesn't endear her to either side; in fact, it makes her a target of tragic sexism (unfair but inevitable) and valid criticism over her white lady weeping willow routine (extremely fair).
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Beauty tourists often pick up Obagi Vitamin C Serum in Japan, but you can get gentle (and gently priced) Melano CC ($13) and the hilariously named Haba Special Care White Lady Serum ($35) online.
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After Nomi threatens to broadcast Zoey's hellscape of pizza boxes and "sad-ass white lady movies" to the world, she agrees to drag herself out of bed and go to a party with her friends.
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"Black couple faced gun" shows a photo of an old white lady; "Lose custody of kids" would read as a bizarre command if not for its proximity to two people (celebrities?) I do not recognize.
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We get to cheer on the Nice White Lady — the eater of every slice of the film's "life propulsion pie," aka juggling a career with a love life, vacillating between unsuitable men, finding herself, etc.
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Lawrence has found her ultimate fate as the season three equivalent of season two's Eve, the blameless nice white lady who is destroyed by Gilead through no fault of her own, thus illustrating its fundamental corrosiveness.
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But many locals have more supernatural explanations, from a ghost called the "White Lady of Overtoun" to speculation that the bridge is what the pagan Celts called a "thin place," a spot where heaven and earth overlap.
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It was also unnerving watching her do rap cosplay with the same hand that became famous for doing the white lady "I wanna talk to the manager" pointing gesture while calling Black Lives Matter the new KKK.
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I acknowledge that there is tremendous inequity in the industry, about who gets attention for writing what books… I'm aware that in the court of public opinion on my ethnicity at this point I am the white lady.
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This is probably a good place to point out that I'm a straight, cisgender white lady, so when writing about these issues with Friends for my book, I made a point of speaking to people who were not.
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Easily, Cora's character could've fallen into the trappings of Unassuming White Lady Prisoner ala Piper in Orange in the New Black, where our empathy for her relies on the intrigue of not usually seeing women like her behind bars.
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Most vicious and precise of all is the portrait of Alix, who trades off with Emira in narrating alternate chapters, and whose entitled, aggrieved voice serves as a biting indictment of banal, corporate-friendly white lady feminism circa 2016.
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A fast-thinking protester in a wheelchair decided to call the company hired to do the power washing, River City Environmental, and in their "best polite white lady voice," told the business why the cleaners had been hired and by whom.
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The suave and bearded Federico is one of the high priests who, clad in white jackets, serve behind the bar, and I watched in reverence as he aerated the egg white that would soften the blow of my White Lady.
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Brittney Cooper has written a lot about white-lady tears and how our culture is more willing to accept the idea of white-women victimization and white-women suffering without allowing for the possibility that women of color are vulnerable and suffer, too.
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Most of these songs emerge from perceptive readings of outsized feelings generated by ordinary events, like a comic tune about your grandmother getting a new boyfriend or a sweetly romantic one about seeing a white lady crying on the streets of New York.
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Kameron tossed about wildly, serving "that older white lady in your office, who's content with her entry-level job as a career choice because she parties with local rock musicians on the weekends, drunk at karaoke on a Thursday" realness, while Monét served … realness.
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"In one lifetime Spike Lee has lost the Best Picture #Oscars to a movie about a Black guy driving a white lady, Driving Miss Daisy, and to a film about a Black guy being driven by a white guy Green Book...," one person tweeted.
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A fair number of clever one-liners and character beats, such as an African-American prisoner referring to Lifetime as "the white-lady channel," a TV interview with a parolee that naturally goes off the rails and Uzo Aduba's crazier-than-usual antics as Crazy Eyes.
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It's hard to ignore that if Piper hadn't been a nice white lady, she might have been sent right back to prison; it's also hard to ignore that if Maritza had been white, she wouldn't have been detained, even if she was still an undocumented immigrant.
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I guess if you took the most privileged white lady ever and gave her a whole bottle of wine and then asked her to write a Yelp review of a restaurant that made her wait 40 minutes for a table and then got her order wrong twice.
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A favorite of Ed and Lorraine Warren (of the New England Society for Psychic Research), Union Cemetery is home to a spirit named "Red Eyes," purportedly a pair of red eyes glowing in the darkness, as well as the White Lady, who was captured on video and stills.
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" The comedian and the Sack Lunch Bunch, a group of children ages 8 to 13, share their biggest fears and tell odd stories in talking head interviews, variety sketches and elaborate musical numbers, including "I Saw a White Lady Standing on the Street Sobbing" and "Grandma's Boyfriend Paul.
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Piper's status as an upper-class, privileged white lady meant that going to prison was precisely the sort of thing she likely wouldn't have predicted would happen to her, if not for a brief spate of drug-running earlier in her life that had finally caught up to her as the series began.
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She has also consistently used her own image in inventive, distanced, self-mocking ways, as in two well-known self-likenesses done several years apart: one, a pencil drawing titled "Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features" (1981); the other, a crayon-enhanced photograph called "Self-Portrait as a Nice White Lady" (1995).
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" The show will feature regular segments mocking the typical cable news lineup, including "Inside the Hill," described as "where America turns to hear rich people agree with each other," as well as "Virtue Signal," which mocks "liberal cable news anchors" and comes with the tagline "There's no cause this white lady can't make about herself.
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While Tidying Up with Marie Kondo demonstrates simple ways to keep your home in order and Queer Eye reminds us that getting a haircut regularly is good, The Goop Lab, based on Gwyneth Paltrow's rich white lady lifestyle brand, Goop, appears to be about as helpful as Goop's crystal-infused water bottles are affordable.
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The aristocratic heroine Raymonda and her house are protected from harm by a spectral White Lady: just as well, since the Saracen chief Abderakhman tries, first, to seduce Raymonda courteously (Glazunov gives him the ballet's most dangerously sensuous tunes of all) and then (he has a large retinue of Arab and Spanish dancers) to abduct her.
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Goop and the sticker's manufacturers both deleted their claims after getting fact-checked by current and former NASA employees, one of whom called it "a load of BS."After years of marketing its insufferable brand of "rich-white-lady-booking-a-trip-to-Bali-to-find-herself" quackery toward women, Goop could come under fire legally.
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So much of the rhetoric involves the superiority of white women (in the episode, Dre literally curtsies to a white lady at his job), and the inferiority of Black women (after he and Dre's boss, a Black woman, reprimands them for being unproductive, Charlie admits that Black women's attitudes are the reason he keeps some "snow" around).
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Like Madeline's Madeline, it plays around with an attentive-bordering-on-predatory relationship between an ominously well-meaning white lady (who Gyllenhaal doesn't soften one bit) and the young person of color whose bones she seems to want to suck the talent out of — in this case, a kid in her class (Parker Sevak) who she becomes convinced is a poetry prodigy.
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"I'll tell you one thing: If the 'randomly selected' passenger had been a blonde white lady, and she refused to give her seat, there's no way in seven hells that these cops would have dragged her ass out kicking, screaming and bloody," wrote blogger Phil Yu on his website Angry Asian Man, where he deals with issues of race and discrimination in culture.
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The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) From Doctor Strange The actor reprised her controversial role of The Ancient One (who in the comics is an Asian character, not a white lady) from Doctor Strange for Endgame, resulting in two full scenes including one in which she gives Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) an all-important heads up that they need to return the Infinity Stones back in time or else.
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Creator Jenji Kohan described Piper Chapman, the white woman who began the show as Orange Is the New Black's main character, as her "Trojan horse" — a way to get a show on the air (because "white lady goes to prison" was an arc that was easier to sell to mostly white TV executives), so Kohan and her writers could immediately start telling stories that weren't about white, straight, cis people.
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When Max's grandfather, 'Pop' Washer opened the cart in 1948, he catered to the 'six 'o' clock swill' crowd, members of a legendary moment in New Zealand's binge-drinking history when men clocking-off work at 5 PM spent the next hour in the nearest public bar drinking as much as they could before the mandatory closing time at 6 PM. The White Lady was there for them when they spilled onto the darkening streets, beer-addled and starving.
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