Key term: “impoverished white women”............just to let you know who’s team she’s on at the end of the day.
Mo’Nique calls for boycott of Netflix over gender, color bias
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Less look at the "Low balling" Mo'Nique is complaining about. If other companies have offered or is paying you, lets say $1000 for argument sake...and a company comes and offers you $150. To me that is low balling because you have documented rates for your services.Exactly.... Dykes aint THAT big of a market...
What is suspect about this situation is that Mo'Nique has yet to disclose what other offers she has received that paid over $500 for a comedy special. If she showed other companies playing her 8 to 10 million then I would be on her side.
Exactly, plus if she was such a damn Legend, she would be able to go to another network EASILY and get her bread....
So basically, shes mad because they didnt let her walking in and force them to pay her HER number?!?!?!?
Lil rel? I had to google the bum. Another wack nigga on the mic.. I assume he chicago scum too? You guys must be home of the chitlin circuit comic as well as the junkie drug addict trash rapper. If he got 7 then Monique deserve 23. Take your hurt feelings, stuff em in your marsupial pouch and get the fuck out this thread you fucking midget!
Certainly bw are undervalued and undercompensated for everything, as black people are across the board.
I just don't think she's making the right argument here. You have to ignore so much other shit about Netflix and people of color and women to follow her on this one. Self serving applications of bias claims water down the real shit.
Whoever said that this was not a case of race or gender discrimination, but if Monique discrimination, said that shit best.
I just don't think she's making the right argument here. You have to ignore so much other shit about Netflix and people of color and women to follow her on this one. Self serving applications of bias claims water down the real shit.
Whoever said that this was not a case of race or gender discrimination, but if Monique discrimination, said that shit best.
what's that?
this niggas editing style needs work. Those cuts are horrible.
yall keep trying to make it about funny, when it's about money.
Her way of expressing herself is not the correct way also.
The money is based on funny tho...
That's not true fam
Why would you even say that
If that was the case Schumer wouldn't exist
Funny is wild subjective too
I agree. She has a good point because as you stated, black are always undervalued but her argument is horrible. We all want to get behind the sista but she is not providing us with a good case to prosecute Neflix. You are spot on with it having more self serving applications than anything.
Just because shes not funny to you doesnt mean shes not funny to someone chief... Same thing with Monique however, Schumer sold out MSG, SOMEBODY brought those tickets... Has Monique even in her 'prime' sold out a venue that big....
The money is about funny Bruh, and right now, Monique is irrelevant. Nobody is looking for her chief, no other network has up till now tried to snatch her up... Why?!?!? For the majority she is not funny or marketable...
Yeah Netflix could give a fuck if Amy was "funny". They just looking at the bottom end. Can she generate revenue. No different than a promoter securing a musical artist to come to their event. The promoter could give a damn if the musical artist could sing or dance. They are just looking at home much money this artist can bring them.
Sammyjax was saying that Netflix did not care if she was funny. They cared about how much they could make.
Yeah, funny is relative. It's about the draw. Can they make their money back off of their investment. Can the entertainer bring in numbers.
Most of the people complaining wouldn't even watch 5 minutes worth of her shit.
Don't get swept up in arguing to the point that you're not even processing shit you're responding to.
You're saying the same thing I said.
Your opening sentence says it all.
Black people are undervalued across the board in America, as you pointed out. Netflix’ hands are not clean in that area just like almost all entertainment entities. I do think the amount Netflix offered Mo’Nique was an insult given her resume, talent and longevity.
I think she’s justified in being unhappy. I also think she’s justified in wanting a boycott, but I don’t think she was being realistic.
Her desire for a boycott would have carried more weight if she had been patient and gathered her evidence of discrimination against other Black women comedians- instead of calling for a boycott for how Netflix treated HER. She was reactionary in the moment. No one is perfect. I’m not gonna shit on her for that like a lot of dudes here who resent women who don’t have a smile plastered to their faces 24/7.
I support her and her cause. However, though this story is a racial one, the illustration of the story is not black and white. There is a multiplicity of shades of grey. As we all know, Netflix has produced and featured a staggering amount of quality Black programming, movies, documentaries and shows featuring Black directors, all-Black casts and Black leads - possibly more than any other entertainment entity to date.
...And this is the reason I won’t boycott Netflix on Mo’Nique’s behalf. There are a lot of options she could have taken to express her displeasure. I don’t happen to think this route was the right one. I would not presume to say what exactly the right one would be. It’s Mo’Nique’s career, reputation and livelihood on the line, not mine, and I nor anyone here can do much more than give our two cents. I wish her well. If her speaking out leads to the discovery of a pattern of lowballing Black women comedians and/or non a-list Black comedians, then her speaking out won’t have been in vain. Time will tell.
Reapect
All that is bullshit bruh. She TOLD you what she wants you to do.
She's very clear. Shit or get off the pot.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste, Bro. Trolling isn’t a good fit for you.
All them words to talk about your fake ass support for her was a waste. She's very clear. You don't support her cuz you know she's full of shit. Just admit it.
Monique had a talk show....
I wonder why she wasn't calling for a boycott then since she wasn't making anything close to what Ellen makes, Colbert or Kimmel .
Wasnt her making less racist and sexist ?
Wasn't she the most decorated talk show host alive ?
I wonder why she wasn't calling for a boycott then since she wasn't making anything close to what Ellen makes, Colbert or Kimmel .
Wasnt her making less racist and sexist ?
Wasn't she the most decorated talk show host alive ?
In that post I stated my exact position. No more, no less, Brother.
Yup. I just shortened it for ya.
"There's such a thing as discrimination but this is clearly not it. Fuck Monique, I'm gonna keep watching and paying for Netflix."
This year you will pay Netflix 120 bucks and Monique ZERO. But you on her side lol.
Nope I said what I said. I can and have articulated my viewpoint, myself. All one has to do is read. Do you see me trying to reduce your viewpoints on this Mo’Nique story to a sound byte of my own interpretation? I have more respect for you and for myself than to do that, Black man.
Lol oh don't try to play that game now bruh
You came into this accusing anyone who didn't "support" Monique like you did, of not supporting the Black woman and siding with the white man's corporation. You did that over and over. Then when you get confronted about how you actually EXPRESS your support, all of a sudden it gets nuanced and "requires thought"
So I guess any of us who thought it through and could see that Monique is using a trope based on some truisms for her own personal gain just didn't think it through like you did huh? Monique isn't being nuanced at all. She's very clear. You claim to support her, yet now you wanna be nuanced. And on top of that, you're still paying the company and not paying her a dime. You support the white man and not her.
Lol right. No one's ever seen Monique out anywhere protesting for anyone but herself. EVER. Zero history of fighting for social justice anywhere. Oh but we're supposed to care about her comedy special salary. Half a million dollars just ain't enough lol. People out her fighting to raise minimum LIVING wage and she wants us to help her comedy wage.
And for what? What jobs program is she finna bring to the community? Lmao this broad
The title of that video is misleading. He didn't blasted her, he just simply gave his opinion, and he just so happen to be Chris Rocks brother. So of course there would be some bias thrown into his opinion.
The thing that everyone keeps over looking but criticizing Monique for is using the names of Chris and Dave. Yet that is exactly how Amy was able to renegotiate her contract but using their names and their gender to gain 2 million more dollars.
Amy using their names was exactly why everyone blasted her too. And her special flopped after talking all that shit so guess what? Next time she'll get even less.
And what's worse is that people blasted Amy as if she came out in public about the salaries of the others when really she didn't. She just came back for renegotiation.
If someone ask you a question and then throw in your sibling's name. Of course how you answer a question will be a little different with added in offense.
"Amy Schumer couldn't have been hotter as a personality when she set a deal last year to star in a comedy special for Netflix, 'The Leather Special,' which premiered in March," the story said. "But when Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle made headlines for commanding eye-popping deals for $20 million per special, Schumer's team went back to Netflix and flatly asked for more money."
Citing an unnamed source, writer Daniel Holloway wrote that Schumer initially was paid about $11 million but "received significantly more compensation after she raised the question of fairness relative to the Rock and Chappelle deals."
"Schumer admitted she did ask for more than Netflix initially offered but denied she went for equal pay."
Keep in mind that both Rock and Chappelle signed a contract for multiple shows.
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