In its first week, Mindy Kaling’s new streaming HBO Max comedy College Girls and their Sexual Lives Liberal name-dropping and woke virtue signaling went too far. Three more episodes were published on Thanksgiving Day. One episode focused exclusively on woke feminists, specifically defending pronouns.
This show is about four college freshman girls living in a dorm room at Essex College in New England. Leighton, formerly known as Melania and a closed-knit lesbian, is Renee Rap. In episode 3, “Le Tuteur,” she’s doing community service at the school’s Women’s Center because she was caught drinking and vandalizing school property.
As she introduces herself at the center, she stirs up trouble by not falling in line with the use of pronouns and a “safe space” bell. Their over-sensitivity comes off as ridiculous and comical to normal viewers, but Leighton’s put in her place by the leader, Alicia (Midori Francis), because it “really does help people” and disrespecting the sharing of pronouns “makes you suck” and “sound like a really dumb, cis bitch:”
Ginger: It’s wonderful that Susan B. Anthony has been honored by the Essex Portrait Gallery. Just to be clear, I think the artist increased the breast size of Susan B. Anthony..
Lindsay: Perhaps it is symbolic of her feminine power.
Tova: Maybe she had an enormous rack. We don’t know how to find out.?
Leighton: Hey. I’m Leighton. I was convicted of underage drinking. This is why I need to be here.
Ginger: I’m Ginger. They, him, theirs.
Lindsay: Lindsay. She, her, hers.
Alicia: Alicia. She, her, hers.
Tova: Tova. They are theirs, they are them.
Leighton: Hmm. Oh, right. Sure. Well, I’m she. It’s obvious..
Alicia: Cool. All the volunteers are under my supervision.
Leighton: Oh, great. Let’s talk about scheduling. It was my thought that mornings would be 9:30-10:15 ish. Then, to make it more time-efficient, add an hour to the total.
Alicia: That’s just not the way it works. You’ll know when I need your help and when that is, you will be there. Tomorrow, between 5:00 and 10:00, you will be supporting our feminist poetry group.
Leighton – As appealing as it may sound, Fridays can be very busy for me.
Alicia, Shit! I did not know that. Perhaps we could just close down all of it until you are free.
Leighton: I’m from New York so you can see that I have a sense of humor.
Ginger: It’s getting a little too tense. I will hit the Safe Space Bell.
Leighton: What?
GingerThe bell is a sound that we sound when we feel safe..
Leighton: Aren’t these already safe spaces? [ding] Okay. Just saying.— [ding]Oh my God!
Alicia says: Ginger! Regardless of whether you think it is stupid or not, what we do helps people. We don’t need your feedback right now, are you? Don’t use pronouns that are not obvious. You’re a complete wuss. It’s a stupid suggestion that your pronouns are not required when you speak to other people. [ding] I heard it, Ginger! Welcoming to Leighton’s Women’s Center. Poetry night is open to all.
There was also a bit of name-dropping in the new episodes as Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet) raves about Beto O’Rourke’s abs. And when Leighton tells the girls she’s had the “worst day of her life,” Whitney (Alyah Chanelle Scott) mocks her by asking, “Oh my God, did they cancel your reservation at Mar-a-Lago?”
In episode 5, “That Comment Tho,” Leighton tells her brother Nico (Gavin Leatherwood) she’s bringing some of the girls from the center to his frat party. He asks, “Doesn’t the Women’s Center hate frats and want to shut us down?” Leighton replies, “Yes, but everything they know about frats is from the Kavanaugh hearings” and wants to show them it’s “not as bad as they think.”
We’re only halfway through the season, so there’s still plenty of time for more woke virtue signaling, unfortunately.
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