Everyone's mad that she's going to be East Asian in Mindy Kaling's spin-off—but why?
, an adult animated comedy for HBO Max focused on the origin story of, uh, Velma, the gal in the orange turtleneck and the big glasses who is arguably the brains of the entire Scooby-Doo operation. The press release stated that Kaling would be voicing the lead character, Velma, and provided little to no other information.that Velma will be portrayed as an Asian woman, some people are pressed.
Fine, standard, and great: a standard retool of a classic that, in 2021, should not cause one single eyelash to flutter. But becausemake Velma—a cartoon character and work of fiction—East Asian was instead met with lots of opinions, thoughts, and concerns.of people whose existence I was previously unaware of, were quite upset with this revelation.
are vehement that whatever race this cartoon gal is, she better be queer, because the character has been coded as such since time immemorial.
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