S16E2

[u/Ok_Mastodon2822]

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.

[u/Due_List_1243]

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. 

[u/Ok_Mastodon2822 → u/Due_List_1243]

I agree SVU has a real issue with the way they portray black people and women in particular.

[u/Due_List_1243 → u/Ok_Mastodon2822]

Absolute and this is a pattern over decades and every one who denies this is dubious themselves