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Gilmore Girls, Sex And The City, And The Cringeworthy Class Representation Of Television

The Financial Confessions

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Is Marriage Maisel a Man?

I think with any like Gilmore Girls, it plays so much with the signifiers and signs of class. It doesn't want to engage too far even though it's right there on the tin. But I think at large, we really don't know how to deal with class because the people making these films nowadays are overall so diverse. They ignore the fact that young kids are not living in a sexless world. You know, young kids need to be aware about certain degree of sexuality for their own well-being. And if you turn to bring race into it -- black poverty can so easily be weaponized either way. The French movie Moonlight got a lot of backlash years ago but it

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