It’s a flawed formula that’s rooted in bias—and the history of pop culture has shown us who’s allowed to be perceived as difficult, unruly, or unlikeable and get away with it. With the sheer absence of unlikeable women of color until quite recently, being unlikeable is still mostly the territory of cis, skinny, conventionally attractive white women. The anger or wit of Black women has been routinely transformed into comic relief or used to feed the damaging stereotype of the Angry Black Woman.
