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** Blanche's SouthernBelle persona sometimes brushes up against some uncomfortable racism, such as when she casually mentions her family owned slaves and that she had a black nanny (whom she calls Mammy). Blanche is shown involved in Daughters of the Confederate South-type organizations, one of which rejects her upon learning that her great-grandmother was Jewish (and a Northerner). On another occasion, she tells a story about her high school sweetheart Benjamin and the controversy surrounding Benjamin taking her to a dance. The other girls assume Benjamin was black; the "punchline" is that Blanche, horrified, explains that he was a ''Yankee.'' (She also makes a few remarks confirming that BlackIsBiggerInBed, which at least proves that she doesn't seem prejudiced about ''dating'' black men, though it does perpetuate the stereotype -- especially since we never see her in an actual ''romance'' with a black man, just speaking of them as sexually superior). Probably most unsettling is her making several allusions to book burnings (in "Stand by Your Man") and lynchings (in "The Flu" and "The Actor"), which would be bad enough on their own, but which take on a harsher context given that Blanche came of age during a time period and place where recreational terrorism against black communities was deemed common and acceptable. This gets further explored in the spinoff Series/GoldenPalace when Roland confronts Blanche on her romanticizing of the Jim Crow South (in "Camp Town Races Aren't So Fun Anymore").
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** Blanche's SouthernBelle persona sometimes brushes up against some uncomfortable racism, such as when she casually mentions her family owned slaves and that she had a black nanny (whom she calls Mammy). Blanche is shown involved in Daughters of the Confederate South-type organizations, one of which rejects her upon learning that her great-grandmother was Jewish (and a Northerner). On another occasion, she tells a story about her high school sweetheart Benjamin and the controversy surrounding Benjamin taking her to a dance. The other girls assume Benjamin was black; the "punchline" is that Blanche, horrified, explains that he was a ''Yankee.'' (She also makes a few remarks confirming that BlackIsBiggerInBed, which at least proves that she doesn't seem prejudiced about ''dating'' black men, though it does perpetuate the stereotype -- especially since we never see her in an actual ''romance'' with a black man, just speaking of them as sexually superior). Probably most unsettling is her making several allusions to book burnings (in "Stand by Your Man") and lynchings (in "The Flu" and "The Actor"), which would be bad enough on their own, but which take on a harsher context given that Blanche came of age during a time period and place where recreational terrorism against black communities was deemed common and acceptable. This gets further explored in the spinoff Series/GoldenPalace when Roland confronts Blanche on her romanticizing of the Jim Crow South (in "Camp Town Races Aren't So Nearly As Fun Anymore").As They Used to Be").
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** Blanche's SouthernBelle persona sometimes brushes up against some uncomfortable racism, such as when she casually mentions her family owned slaves and that she had a black nanny (whom she calls Mammy). Blanche is shown involved in Daughters of the Confederate South-type organizations, one of which rejects her upon learning that her great-grandmother was Jewish (and a Northerner). On another occasion, she tells a story about her high school sweetheart Benjamin and the controversy surrounding Benjamin taking her to a dance. The other girls assume Benjamin was black; the "punchline" is that Blanche, horrified, explains that he was a ''Yankee.'' (She also makes a few remarks confirming that BlackIsBiggerInBed, which at least proves that she doesn't seem prejudiced about ''dating'' black men, though it does perpetuate the stereotype -- especially since we never see her in an actual ''romance'' with a black man, just speaking of them as sexually superior.)
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** Blanche's SouthernBelle persona sometimes brushes up against some uncomfortable racism, such as when she casually mentions her family owned slaves and that she had a black nanny (whom she calls Mammy). Blanche is shown involved in Daughters of the Confederate South-type organizations, one of which rejects her upon learning that her great-grandmother was Jewish (and a Northerner). On another occasion, she tells a story about her high school sweetheart Benjamin and the controversy surrounding Benjamin taking her to a dance. The other girls assume Benjamin was black; the "punchline" is that Blanche, horrified, explains that he was a ''Yankee.'' (She also makes a few remarks confirming that BlackIsBiggerInBed, which at least proves that she doesn't seem prejudiced about ''dating'' black men, though it does perpetuate the stereotype -- especially since we never see her in an actual ''romance'' with a black man, just speaking of them as sexually superior.) superior). Probably most unsettling is her making several allusions to book burnings (in "Stand by Your Man") and lynchings (in "The Flu" and "The Actor"), which would be bad enough on their own, but which take on a harsher context given that Blanche came of age during a time period and place where recreational terrorism against black communities was deemed common and acceptable. This gets further explored in the spinoff Series/GoldenPalace when Roland confronts Blanche on her romanticizing of the Jim Crow South (in "Camp Town Races Aren't So Fun Anymore").
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* InformedWrongness: In "Born Again," Rose's new roommates - Liz and Stephanie - are meant to contrast negatively with Dorothy and Blanche for their lack of interest in socializing with each other and for their general standoffishness (in Stephanie's case). However, in real life, Liz and Stephanie's dynamic - while certainly less fun - is a much more realistic depiction of how roommates generally coexist on a daily basis, and inversely, many would look at the dynamic of the Golden Girls' house - traveling/going on vacation together, playing sports together, playing host to each other's relatives - as rather uncommon or even unusual (including by roommates who get along and consider themselves friends).
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** In "Charlie's Buddy," a man claiming to have served in the war with Charlie sweeps Rose off her feet, but it turns out he's a con artist who was trying to steal her money. This episode has sadly become more relevant today, as romance scams have flourished in the online dating age.
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** There's a lot of jokes at the expense of Phil's crossdressing throughout the series, including him wearing a teddy at his funeral, which is attended by several other crossdressers. However, that episode treats him sympathetically and delivers the message that men who crossdress can still be kind, respectable men.
** "Strange Bedfellows" ends with Gil Kessler revealing he was once Anna Maria Bonaducci, which serves as a bit of shock value appropriate for a sitcom of its era. However, the other characters don't misgender Gil (with Sophia's insistence she could "tell" being a BaitAndSwitch that she knew he was Italian) and when Rose ponders how the surgery works, the joke is mostly on her.
** There's a lot of jokes at the expense of Phil's crossdressing throughout the series, including him wearing a teddy at his funeral, which is attended by several other crossdressers. However, that episode treats him sympathetically and delivers the message that men who crossdress can still be kind, respectable men.
** "Strange Bedfellows" ends with Gil Kessler revealing he was once Anna Maria Bonaducci, which serves as a bit of shock value appropriate for a sitcom of its era. However, the other characters don't misgender Gil (with Sophia's insistence she could "tell" being a BaitAndSwitch that she knew he was Italian) and when Rose ponders how the surgery works, the joke is mostly on her.
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* Greta's comment about Diana Ross marrying white men in "Mixed Blessing", considering Ross' marriages to Robert Ellis Silberstein and Arne Næss Jr. resulted in four children, two of them being Evan Ross and Creator/TraceeEllisRoss
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: While it still isn’t right or politically correct for Dorothy to have a problem with Michael and Lorraine’s union due to race (even if she states that that is ''her'' own problem and doesn’t object on those grounds), another reason she could think that way is [[FridgeBrilliance the stigma mixed-race couples and children still faced]] in the 1980s (similar to what ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'' touched on in the 1960s), as her later disliking the child being potentially named “Lamar Zbornak” hints at. The same thing could apply to Greta as well.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: “Mixed Blessing”: While it still isn’t right or politically correct for Dorothy to have a problem with Michael and Lorraine’s union due to race (even if she states that that is ''her'' own problem and doesn’t object on those grounds), another reason she could think that way is [[FridgeBrilliance the stigma mixed-race couples and children still faced]] in the 1980s (similar to what ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'' touched on in the 1960s), as her later disliking the child being potentially named “Lamar Zbornak” hints at. The same thing could apply to Greta as well.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: While it still isn’t right or politically correct for Dorothy to have a problem with Michael and Lorraine’s union due to race (even if she states that that is ''her'' own problem and doesn’t object on those grounds), another reason she could think that way is [[FridgeBrilliance the stigma mixed-race couples and children still faced]] in the 1980s (similar to what ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'' touched on in the 1960s), as her later disliking the child being potentially named “Lamar Zbornak” hints at. The same thing could apply to Greta as well.
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* Greta’s comment about Diana Ross marrying white men in “Mixed Blessing”, considering Ross’ marriages to Robert Ellis Silberstein and Arne Næss Jr. resulted in four children, two of them being Evan Ross and Creator/TraceeEllisRoss
