This storyline was so so good, not too much the actor is gorgeous, so why is he so underused? Just like Gary Dourdan? Why are they teasing us with these fine men just to drop them so fast?
Mary Jane Paul had a good opportunity to explore the interracial concept in depth and bring a new voice to the situation but she dropped the ball on this one.
Because sometimes that's how relationships go! Short and sweet or maybe not so sweet! That's life!
shareI actually feel they did explore it. She decided that its not for her. I actually think its growth for her to not fall into a relationship with either of those men (or David or Mr married man) just because she doesn't want to be alone. She's growing up!
shareI agree with the other poster, they did explore it as fare an MJ's world would allow. They were true to the character, I thought. MJ, picks the wrong kind of men for her. But when a "good guy" comes along, she dismisses him for one reason or another because rather than just a good man/relationship, she wants some idealized version of "black love". This is why she ends up alone.
I don't trust people who don't like pets and I don't trust people who pets don't like.
Thank you I agree. So far all of her idealized version of black love were either married thus unavailable, childish and stringing her along or they didn't want a relationship that would lead to marriage.
She is getting on my last nerves and making it hard for me to feel empathy for her because SHE is her own worst enemy.
MJ should end up alone with her ego to warm her through the long lonely nights.
I agree with all of you. Though she used him, she pretty much made it clear that the relationship was purely physical from the beginning, it was he who wanted more from someone who was emotionally unavailable. I understand why she made the decision she did, but I do agree that they left the relationship pretty much unexplored, and reduced him down to cliches. Then again, she has a tendency to discard people. Look what she did to cutty buddy because of his seizure! This chick is cold-blooded, inherently selfish, and is quite unlikeable tbh. Still a great show though!
shareEveryone's entitled to their own opinions. As a black woman I totally understand where she's coming from although I do feel she did come off rude to him, it wasn't her intensions. The way we grow up like every race we grow up different. She doesn't know how to express where she's coming from so it comes across very nasty. And although she is far from racist, she still wants to feel love from a black man being that she is a black woman that's what she prefers like a lot of races, your preference is to be with your own kind. Doesn't mean she need to be alone. It just says she has a lot of learning about herself that needs to be done. I too used to be that exact way but it took me to learn who I am and what I want for a long time. Now that I did I am happily married to a Hispanic man who loves the hell out of me and I too wouldn't trade him for the world. She will learn love has no color on it just like a lot of people. Sad to say but slavery is over and yet you still have
sharePeople who are still racist so not just black people but people in general are not wanting to explore other options..... they chose to date only their race. Others will not admit it but people in general
can definately relate.... my opinion hate it or love it we all are entitled to it.
One more thing it is crazy how this became a race thing when you can totally see after her heart was broken she clearly treated any man that crossed her path the same way....... it is only herself that she dislikes and now she has to figure out how to address her problems head on...... and in the mist of it she's hurting others.... doesn't mean she has to allow that to dictate who she is today as a person....it's all a lesson learned.
shareAfter MJ makes the Aussie her "bitch" (on his knees, chomping at the box") she dumps him for being kind enough to ask for insight and seeking her opinion! Unbelievable! It might just be TV but it strikes a chord!
shareHe's actually from Essex in the UK. But I agree with you. She was so disrespectful to him and the storyline was so cliched to an extent - calling his willy pink! Huh!
shareI felt bad for him, Mary Jane treated him poorly. She used him like a toy and threw him away. Imagine if the roles were reversed.
shareIt might be because the actress Gabrielle Union is not comfortable with interracial sex/relationships.
shareI don't think Gabrielle Union has problems with interracial romance, she's starred in a few movies where her character was with a white man. I think it's more so Mara Brock Akil. Even on Girlfriends she couldn't let Toni and Todd live happily ever after. I don't really think she enjoys writing interracial love stories, to be honest.
shareI completely agree with you. I was very dismayed that the writers, and she, kept him extremely one-dimensional. She literally just had sex with a white man, but she can never say that she had a RELATIONSHIP with one, so I really don't feel that her opinion of the experience has much merit. She got "that look" from a black couple while she was out with him, and instead of exploring that and finding out if she can grow from it and learn to experience life from a different and shared learning curve, she wimps the hell out.
I have loved being with black men and not feeling like I have to explain "black" to them. It is nice to not have to be "on" all the time. However, you still have to educate them about your perspective as a woman, and learn from their perspective as a man. I have enjoyed relationships with white men too, though. And if they are open and perceptive, it can be exhilarating to roll with that give and take, and learning and growth for each of you. Yes, there were awkward moments in public, but I reminded myself that they too were willingly dealing with their own backlash (public, family, friends), and still choosing to be with me.
What a wasted opportunity, and what a shallow end to what could have been an amazing arc. No, we don't need another Scandal; but what we also don't need is an oversexed black woman using and dismissing a football player with issues, and white man who apparently was only there to check off of her bucket list of "things" she'd never done.
I'll tell you this, MJ's love life is the thing that turns me off of this show. I actually only watch for Margaret Avery, Richard Roundtree, Richard Brooks, and Lisa Vidal. Loretta Divine was a nice addition for a while too. And seeing Meredith Baxter for a hot minute was nice as well. But MJ? She's gotten on my nerves, and I'll probably start forwarding through anything to do with her love life (aka sex life), because it looks like they're heading back to David, and that's just too played out for me.
im SO over mary jane and her love life and how she shuts out everyone with potential and insteads go for the men who are for whatever reason unavailable to her and screw up her mental state.. or should i say, who she allows to screw up her mental state. she was so insensitive with the football player when she found out about his seizures and so that kinda died down. then the white guy she started dating, i agree the way she wouldn't engage in conversation with him and perhaps open his eyes in the process was unbelievable. granted, it is not her job to educate white men or people in general on a black woman's struggle existing still in current days. but he wasn't the "i have black friends so i understand" type. he openly asked to be enlightened on what she meant and basically what was bothering her and she kicked him to the curb... for "black love" whatever that is. love is love. that really pissed me off.
i think a reason a lot of people are saying this is their favorite season is because there was not as much focus on her love life than in other seasons, and when there was it was light.. until she wound up dumping a seemingly nice guy because he is white and would never experience first hand the plight of being black in america. sometimes i love mary jane but sometimes i just think she needs a huge reality check on her attitude and actions. somehow they always allow her to talk her way out of it and justify her rudeness.. and then she's going to talk about neicy? i guess it runs in the family but to different degrees.
I thought it was very poorly written. I was glad they finally did it but they messed it up. I hope he comes back.
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