Actress, filmmaker and Twitter aficionado Reagan Gomez was obligated to set a Twitter user straight after he ignorantly criticized the theme of the upcoming season three of "Insecure."
Last week, Issa Rae announced that the third season of the HBO hit series will center around toxic black masculinity. However, the announcement did not go over well with some black men saying they believe the show will take an unnecessary swipe at black men.
"I don’t want to give anything away! But I love black masculinity as it relates to black women," Rae told The Hollywood Reporter. "I think that’s something interesting that we haven’t gotten a chance to explore yet — and specifically toxic male black masculinity as it relates to black women. I’m trying to find a way to explore that and get a rounded storyline that isn’t preachy."
One Twitter user by the name of @CurtisScoon captured the sentiment of critics in a tweet thread attacking Rae's expertise on the subject.
Issa Rae teases Season 3 "Insecure" will be about black masculinity. A topic I bet she thinks she's an expert on. My guess is she'll follow the trend of other prominent black women producers/directors/writers in filmmaking and promote some sort of fuckery about black men.
— Curtis Scoon (@CurtisScoon) June 7, 2018
Gomez could not stand idly by and let this go unchallenged. In her own thread responding to Scoon, she had to remind critics that "Insecure" has a writing room with a number of prominent black male voices including longtime writer and comedian Larry Wilmore.
Her show runner is a black man & the writing staff has black men writers. If ya’ll put HALF the effort into googling as you do into being loud & wrong the world would be a bettet place. https://t.co/Wveo3ZAAIN
— Reagan Gomez (@ReaganGomez) June 11, 2018
Then, she dug deep.
I thought ya’ll were team Lawrence? Loved that he had options. Ya’ll loved that season 1 finale but now that they might discuss toxic masculinity, ya’ll think it’s about the Black woman agenda?? Which is it?
— Reagan Gomez (@ReaganGomez) June 11, 2018
Nothing about the show suggests that the men are horrible. They really aren’t. From Lawrence to Daniel to the banger (always with his daughter, teaching her her ABB’s). Well, Lawrence’s lightskinned honie is kinda horrible but…they’re all tryna figure it out. So why…
— Reagan Gomez (@ReaganGomez) June 11, 2018
…fetishized, he felt like shit but had to lie to his homie (the light skinned one????) about how dope it was…while sitting outside of Issa’s house. We can see him fuckin & cussin Issa out but can’t go into toxic masculinity? Please.
— Reagan Gomez (@ReaganGomez) June 11, 2018
If there's any indication by the last two seasons, the third will give men and women equal time to shine. "Insecure" has done an effective job showing various perspectives on the dating lives of our protagonists and by the looks at the responses, toxic masculinity may need to be dissected.
"Insecure" is slated to return on August 12.
