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For Colored Nerds

We're in Our Black Female Antihero Era

For Colored Nerds

Stitcher

Society & Culture

4.8827 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Tony Soprano. Walter White. Don Draper. Stringer Bell. Throughout the years, viewers have followed the trials, tribulations, and bad behavior from men we love to hate. These protagonists tend to be "relate-able" white (sometimes Black!) men who are chasing power, money, success, or any combination of those things. But in the past few years, we've seen the Black female antihero emerge. This week, Brittany and Eric divulge two of their favorite Black female antiheros of the moment.

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0:00.0

Black women are getting the full complex anti-hero deep dive.

0:04.9

I want to understand their psychology treatment.

0:08.0

And I want to see that continue because it's such a rich landscape.

0:12.6

Some of the stuff rock and how are we doing.

0:15.0

This was really going on in black women's minds.

0:16.8

This was really going on in our minds.

0:18.6

I don't think people understand that enough.

0:20.8

That's going to make a lot of folks straightened up when they see tonight. Hopefully act right, fly right, you know?

0:30.9

Hi, I'm Eric. And I'm Brittany. And this is for colored nerds. The weekly show where we peel back the layers of black culture that we rarely discuss in mixed company.

0:40.6

So today's show is all about the people we love to hate on TV, anti-heroes.

0:46.2

Think Walter White, Stringer Bell, Tony Soprano, the classics.

0:50.1

You know, the usually white men, we're being honest, who do all the things we wish we could do by any means necessary, even if it means ruining everyone else's life in the process.

1:01.1

But guess what? There's a new vanguard in town, the black female anti-hero.

1:06.2

Yes. And if it's one thing I believe in, it's women's rights. But I especially believe in women's wrongs.

1:13.1

And the two women we're spotlighting today have done a lot of wrong on their respective shows.

1:17.8

But somehow it makes me love them even more.

1:21.3

Even when I'm left speechless.

1:23.6

But I won't spoil too much.

1:25.9

Stay tuned after the break to find out who these women are

1:28.8

and why they keep us coming back every week.

1:55.7

Tony Soprano, Walter White, Don Draper, Stringer Bell, Omar, the one and only James St. Patrick.

1:59.3

What would you say all these men have in common?

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