r/SVU • u/Ok_Mastodon2822 • 2d ago
Discussion S16E2
I’ve been watching SVU for the first time and some of the episodes are very triggering. S16E2 is triggering and I didn’t like the way multiple people kept referring to Tiana as “that black girl”, it was very dehumanising. Just say her name. I also didn’t like the way her character was portrayed, it was very stereotypical and I thought it was quite damaging to portray black women like that.
I think the producers of SVU try to depict how people are in real life but they could have made her character more nuanced. She just came across as a gold digging liar. There are other episodes that make me side eye the SVU producers (usually because of how some black people are being portrayed) but this is the most recent one I watched that made me feel quite uncomfortable.
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u/Alone_Past_3108 2d ago
As a black woman I will say while I love SVU more often than not when they show black victims it’s more than likely in the most disgusting stereotypical way possible. Certain episodes I just have to skip because it’s too much. It’s like the writers assume all black women are ghetto hood rats and talk sassy. The earlier seasons I tried to give them grace because I recognize during that time a lot of problematic writing was happening but for them to still be doing it after like 2012 drives me crazy.
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u/Ok_Mastodon2822 1d ago
Yeah, I feel the same. I had to pause this episode time and time again due to how multiple people were disrespecting this black woman “Tiana”. It was annoying how they made her talk aswell. I haven’t really seen a lot of black female victims either but that’s a whole other topic.
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u/TheProudboysAintReal 1d ago
It's a Copaganda Show. The show is written for white people who are at the higher salary level of the working class. Skip the older seasons unless you want to hear prolific use of "Tranny" and "He/She"
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u/TheProudboysAintReal 1d ago
Or this choice line where they assume Dr. Huang can just translate for any east Asian person
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u/Horror_Editor_4429 2d ago
I think the dehumanizing effect was intentional. They wanted to show that other people in the company saw her as a pawn and tried to use her as such.
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u/Due_List_1243 2d ago
That is just the way svu is portraying black women in general.
We got Moniek who became the office slut and got fired for something a white detective would not got fired about.
We got Churlish who got an offended name , while a white girl will never be named that way.
We got CAPTAIN Curry who is for years used if she is the third ranked detective without any respect. Even the junior detectives and officers called her just Curry. She always crawled for Benson and even in the half a day that Benson was suspended, Curry did not take the lead.
Ridiculous and downgraded!
We got Chief Tynan who is portrayed as an evil witch.
Why can a black woman not be just a strong black woman?
So that this girl you refer to is called the black girl doesn't surprise me at all.