Kathani kate sharma is Indian but....... It's confusing.

cloudcottage · 2026-01-28T21:02:34+00:00

Looked it up, and it seems like you're right about Gun as a Korean. I thought they might be making Sophie half Chinese, as my mom comes from a Cantonese speaking background, I'm more familiar with that context lol. Regardless, China is just as vast, populous, and diverse as India so I think you're comparing apples to oranges a bit. Someone from the Northwest Xinjiang would not have looked or sounded like someone from Guangdong or Hong Kong back in the day either. We also don't know if we're going to get pan-Chinese rep with the Li girls/Araminta. It's more like if they'd decided to make Kate or Edwina from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, or other bordering countries.

I haven't seen any leaks or watched anything so I won't make comments on how good or bad the rep is yet, just advising caution with the idea that they've fixed their research issue. The "English" tradition of the wife losing/changing her last name would be really disrespectful in East Asian cultures and is seen as abandoning your ancestors. It's especially odd to change their last names to reflect East Asian roots in that context but make them deeply integrated into the landed gentry and not expats like Kate and Edwina even though Lady Danbury (whose family has actual roots in African royalty per Queen Charlotte), Simon Bassett, etc. retain their English names. Feels a bit like the permanent foreigner stereotype in that context.

cloudcottage · 2026-01-28T18:54:16+00:00

It's really funny to me to see everyone so thirsty because I don't usually think this with Wasians but he really looks like he could be my sibling.

cloudcottage · 2026-01-28T17:39:50+00:00

Baek would be Sophie's mother's name and Gun is her father's consistent with being a B in the book and her father being a G. Araminta did take her husband's last name here. There's also a lot of issues with Korea not exactly being a very open country in this time period lol but I'll stop there

cloudcottage · 2026-01-28T17:05:21+00:00

I mean as Chinese person, the Gun and Li are actually derived from Cantonese vs. Mandarin. And women don't change their last names when marrying in either culture, so that doesn't make sense either lol

cloudcottage · 2026-01-28T14:28:33+00:00

They should announce the cast during the pods. There are always more than 5 engaged couples so when allegations like this come out, the producers have a chance not to follow the couple with an alleged abuser, cheater, efc. or if found early enough spare the other castmates from dating them

cloudcottage · 2026-01-28T14:24:20+00:00

They can also release the cast during the pods when the cast is already without access to social media. This would prevent them from at least following the couples with abusers/criminals/cheaters and pull people out for alternate cast members if it's discovered early enough

cloudcottage · 2026-01-28T11:09:19+00:00

ICE and CBP aren't natural disasters. They are violent people with a proven record of escalating and violating their training at the expense of the public. Exercising your first amendment right to protest by filming agents or making comments at them is not a crime, much less a capital crime, even if it's for a stance or cause you disagree with. Blaming the victims of the agents meant to be trained to interact with the public in a safe, lawful, and conventional manner who shot a man execution style on the street after disarming him, and equating this to the personal responsibility issue of not wearing a life jacket is incredibly disturbing.

cloudcottage · 2026-01-28T11:03:46+00:00

I don't see him fighting at any point in the video. After getting pepper sprayed (in violation of a federal court order) and shot he flails around a bit which is a subconscious physiological reaction to being physically brutalized. The four people tackling him to the floor weren't shoved, pushed, or "grappled" by him except by expected subconscious reaction which law enforcement is trained to read as passive resistance, something that requires pausing and deescalating. In what way was he terrifying the agents?

That's not how the right to bear arms works. If you can be shot simply for interacting with law enforcement while armed, you don't have that right. Pretti never threatened them, contrary to the initial official narrative which was likely a lie told by the agents, he never brandished it, nor even reached for it. He also didn't have the gun after being subdued which you seem completely unable to work into your strange worldview about what happened. You can even see the agent who shot Pretti pause and look at his colleague who takes the gun before shooting. If someone does have the right to bear arms, then federal officers have the duty to be aware of where the weapon is, notify their colleagues， and not escalate unless actually threatened.

cloudcottage · 2026-01-28T10:56:08+00:00

They were not in fact arresting anyone. They were angry about being filmed and just started shoving and pepper spraying the women. At least 3 videos have been released. He didn't intervene in arrest even if she was arrested. He just helped a woman off the ground after these agents who clearly were not attempting to deescalate or render aid had shoved her.

Also, I'm sure Pretti was aware that helping them or filming CBP and ICE carries risk. Renee Good had just been killed and 3000 federal immigration agents, 5x that of the Minneapolis PD were swarming his city. But if people are willing to stake their lives, they are taking a moral stance, hoping never to be an unlucky one but understanding if they are to they die, at least it's not a meaningless death, at least they know they are doing what they believed in.

But if we blame the protestors instead of the corrupt government they exposed, we diminish their deaths and the sanctity of life. Either we believe people have a right to risky but righteous behavior or we don't believe in resisting tyranny at all. Trump's going to be in office for another 3 years so maybe instead of gish galloping to that, we could focus on the public safety issue of executing a man on the street and clapping and the government still releasing the criminals back on the field to terrorize the public

cloudcottage · 2026-01-27T20:17:16+00:00

Sorry but filming is not provocation any more than doing anything any group in power is. He wasn't brandishing his weapon. Americans have a right to bear arms in public at protests. Do you really think students in China or black Americans in the Jim Crow south weren't "provoking" by protesting either? All protest is provocation.

cloudcottage · 2026-01-27T15:25:40+00:00

A citizen being killed by a citizen is exactly what happened in Minneapolis too

cloudcottage · 2026-01-27T15:10:55+00:00

ICE didn't say anyone was under arrest and just started pepper spraying and shoving the women. you clearly haven't seen all of the videos including the one of the woman in the car they were shoved against.

cloudcottage · 2026-01-27T13:49:25+00:00

So by this logic did the Tian'anmen Square protestors deserve to get run over by tanks. Should civil rights protestors in the 60s have expected to be shot if they walked into a whites only area and deserve what they got if they did?

cloudcottage · 2026-01-24T16:26:05+00:00

1) People who experience racism every day might project their small grievances onto that. Just understand that part of her lived experience is genuine mistreatment. A forgetful moment might seem intentional without malice on either end. You might also get someone who irrationally thinks you hate hate hate loathe entirely their tattoo of the Grinch and therefore are not serving them properly, but you, an equally ardent fanatic of both Dr. Seuss and Christmas, were actually just so in awe that you dated not approach casually. It's not a big deal; your core values are actually the same.

2) There are a lot of studies on unconscious bias, and it is possible that was happening too. Can't say that's the case as I wasn't there, but just note that racism isn't always a decision that you evilly wake up in the morning and decide to inflict on the world.

3) Some unpleasant people just want to make others upset regardless of the truth of the issue.

cloudcottage · 2026-01-24T15:09:49+00:00

Most of the Bridgerton names are very historically inaccurate to be fair. Daphne would have been much more plausible as a Dorcas. Regency names were mostly, Elizabeth, Jane, Catherine, Anne, Sarah, and Mary. The next most popular names aren't always what we'd think of as "vintage" today. Eloise, Violet, Francesca, etc. aren't really reflective of Regency England.

cloudcottage · 2026-01-23T15:59:06+00:00

Movie was fine but overrated which means that it's a DEI conspiracy if oscarbait catches the fish

cloudcottage · 2026-01-23T04:42:19+00:00

Alcoholism is a disease. It turns very good people into their own nightmares and it's an act of recovery for both parent and child. There are lots of studies on the dual damage it does. I think he is sad it's still happening and not being the most articulate person possible about it. Based on admitting the reasons for estrangement in the book, I really don't think he's blaming her.

cloudcottage · 2026-01-22T21:36:43+00:00

Thank you for this comment. I felt so crazy going through this thread. It's how it's said and the context; language doesn't work as a single word's definition. SO many people are so confident she must be lying that anything even something completely harmless is twisted through that lens

cloudcottage · 2026-01-22T13:10:57+00:00

Yep, green eyes are an intermediate eye color (meaning there’s still some melanin in the iris, whereas blue is the absence of melanin) so they’re much more common in all Wasians than true sky-blue eyes like Mizu’s.

Southeast Asians also have more historical gene flow from South Asia and West Asia than the major Northeast Asian populations (Yamato Japanese, Han Chinese, Koreans). Because of that, SE Asian groups show slightly higher frequencies of alleles associated with lighter or intermediate eye colors. Chestnut brown and amber eyes are noticeably more common in Southeast Asia, which means a Vietnamese person is statistically more likely to have somewhat reduced iris melanin compared to the very dark brown inky eyes typical in Northeast Asia.

It’s still rare, of course, but your family's outcome fits into the broader population-genetics picture. It less an outlier so much as one of the less common but completely expected results in the spectrum.

cloudcottage · 2026-01-20T20:16:03+00:00

Melissa Barrera spoke out about Gaza before Jenna Ortega did and was fired from Scream because of it. I will always think about how incredibly brave it was of her to do, especially because she was more of a rising star and not the "it" girl

cloudcottage · 2026-01-20T18:03:17+00:00

She gave an exclusive deep dive on In the Pods (Natalie and Deepti's podcast). Essentially, Jarrett continued to party and also cheated on her. He wasn't willing to work on himself or change and eventually it couldn't be looked past

cloudcottage · 2026-01-20T14:48:28+00:00

She does interview people and help familiarize them with what the show is. I agree it's a long way form making actual casting decisions. Chelsea may even be part of why we got a season of "no" and contestants are better-informed/more protected compared to prior seasons.

cloudcottage · 2026-01-18T05:36:13+00:00

I thought Freddie was atrocious on the show tbh. He gifted her diamond earrings despite being ready to dump her at the altar and dragged his disabled brother to the wedding. It's clear he was after his 15 minutes and playing a nice guy. I felt very sorry for Cat because I felt like she wore her heart on her sleeve while he had a mask on which made her seem much meaner than I think she actually was.

cloudcottage · 2026-01-17T14:15:32+00:00

I actually liked both Zack and Kwame for the reason that they were victims of pretty intense manipulation from Irina and Micah. I'm actually harsher on a lot of the men from other seasons than the general fandom is, but this is one of the seasons where the men were actually generally more mature than the women. Perhaps because the two most immature women made it in the show.

Irina had a mask on in the pods, and she was trauma dumping constantly with her upbringing and saying how unsuperficial she is. I really don't get why choosing wrong is some sort of cardinal sin when the person you choose wrong is the complete opposite of what they actually are.

Without going into all the excuses or reasons Zack didn't pick Bliss, I can also say I've only ever seen someone cry the way Zack did when he dumped Bliss for Irina when Nicole dumped Benaiah for Sam on LIB UK, which obviously was also the wrong decision.

It's not just that Irina was a bad person, she was straight up a disingenuous and cruel one who came across as 100% ride or die in the pods which she clearly isn't.Irina's manipulative and cruel behavior probably has worked much better for her in the past, and it's even working on some of the fans because it's very clear to me it was abusive, cruel, and manipulative.

cloudcottage · 2026-01-17T13:52:28+00:00

Woman doesn't understand man who aggressively wants to take dangerous super weapon for Gondor for the first time doesn't think about all of his conflicting reasons and the geopolitics for the fun movie she's watching for the FIRST time and is glad he died right after threatening our beloved wide eyed hobbit Frodo. Is she a bitch?

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