In case you missed it, BET’s original scripted series, Being Mary Jane starring Gabrielle Union aired last night after much fanfare.
Many are wondering if the show is “life imitating art” as Union’s character is in love with and can’t let go of a married man. The show addresses infidelity, adultery and premarital sex as the norm for a successful black woman. This depiction is both disturbing and somewhat unrealistic.
Union’s character secretly yearns for a man and family of her own but sees this goal as unattainable due to the perplexed marriage to her career.
Last night’s show was the first of eight series, my question is…will you continue to watch?
I think the show was entertaining but can we please get a woman of color who has her life together and NOT fuckin with a married man?
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I think the show was entertaining but can we please get a woman of color who has her life together and NOT fuckin with a married man?
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I agree…why does a black woman’s “complexity” seem to come from drama with men they can’t have. I like the show but being in a long term relationship I think I’m losing my ability to relate to this type of messiness…
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Really great show!
And I do agree with Lexy that this show plays into the messiness that is life sometimes. Nothing far-fetched. One of the hottest topics of discussion is black women and men/marriage. There’s no denying it.
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I like the show but being in a long term relationship I think I’m losing my ability to relate to this type of messiness…
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AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!
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I like this show Tra. Just wondering if it is a little art imitating life?
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She was pist when old boy found him a back up chick after she canceled on him 😆
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She was pist when old boy found him a back up chick after she canceled on him
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What got me is that she was mad but they aren’t in a committed relationship! They were just…you know….anyway…she is a friends with benefit to so how can she be mad?
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She was pist when old boy found him a back up chick after she canceled on him
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Dude peeped game when ol married dude pulled up trying to type in the code. She should have just kept it real and told him the truth.
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so how can she be mad?
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Thats the..complexity. She cant be but she IS. Its irrational. :shrug: Just like being who she is..”on paper” and to her family and coworkers versus who she really is to herself!
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Dude peeped game when ol married dude pulled up trying to type in the code. She should have just kept it real and told him the truth.
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Yes but … She was peeping out the window.. 😆 Thats shows her..immaturity really. I knew she wasn’t gonna tell the truth when she lied upon realizing it was Omari. 😆
Did yall watch the intimate moments thing?
“Never Answer” explained that he loved MaryJane BUT not more than he loves himself so.. 😡
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so how can she be mad?
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Yeah how can she be mad when they both screwing other people?
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how many folks thought some of those scenes really happened between her and DWade when she found out about the baby
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Like someone tweeted on Twitter: #BeingMaryJane #Scandal #SingleLadies is just soft porn with a script and plots.
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For once can we get a show where the single women don’t take their advice from Steve Harvey and keep their legs closed until they are married?
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For once can we get a show where the single women don’t take their advice from Steve Harvey and keep their legs closed until they are married?
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CoSign!!!!!!
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Stop casting your pearls before swine Ladies….so you can stay out of the abortion clinics and protect yourself from being infected with HIV or some other venereal disease.
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I like the show
Good afternoon and Happy New Year Ervy1
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Hey Felicia 🙂 Happy New Year to you too!!
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Hey ladies
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Whatz up ladies
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Hello
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Hey y’all.
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Hello everyone and Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year Ceo’ers!!
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Hey everyone……I see I need to get out and stop reading these comments now cause I have yet to watch the show tonight.
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Fee, Daisy, Kala, Brown hey everybody :waves 🙂 Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year Fam
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Happy Hump day y’all
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Happy New Year Y’all
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Hey y’all
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Helleor!!!!!!!!
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Hey family
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Wassup peeps
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Afternoon folks happy hump day!
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Happy New Year !!
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Hey Fam…..Happy New Year!
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Hey Ladies and Gents
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Afternoon Family
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Happy New Year all
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Hello all.
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Whatz up Fam
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Happy New Year Ceo Ladies and Gents
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Hello Ceo’ers
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Hello my fellow Ceo’ers!
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Hey everyone
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Hey everybody Waves!!!!!! 😆
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Happy Hump Day Ceo’ers
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Hey everybody Happy New Year to ya!
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Hello all
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Hey y’all
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What Up Y’all!
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Happy New Year all
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Zup my Ceo Peeps
Happy New Year n shit!!!!!!!!!
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Wassup peoples
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Fam!!!!!!!!!
Happy New Year what it do y’all?
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Have not watched it but I need to check it out. Gabby only has one mode when it comes to acting which is why I stopped watching things with her in it.
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Missed it……I was to into The Haves and The Haves Not!
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Yeah that Tika Sumpter got it going on. 😆
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I was to into The Haves and The Haves Not!
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MJ came on after The Haves and The Haves Not! I watched BOTH!!!
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I was to into The Haves and The Haves Not!
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MJ came on after The Haves and The Haves Not! I watched BOTH!!!
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I was to into The Haves and The Haves Not!
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The Tuesday show line ups on BET and OWN are hot I tell ya.
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Gabby need to get her azz out that tub.
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I was entertained by the show. Didn’t like how she broke off the married dude at the end WITH his wedding ring on.
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I’m looking forward to the season…I didn’t like the shower scene at the end of the show though but I’m curious to see how the wife acts now…it is a tad bit scandalish BUT I think they have done enough to separate themselves from Scandal…
I enjoyed the show last night and the previews look great so far
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I had to take a nap to make it 😥 but I watched! 🙂 I love it. I love the complexities of the characters. Kudos Mara Brock Ackil.
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I have it on the Teevo I’ll watch it tonight
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The show gave me the feel of “the news room” show on HBO but with a black cast and shit…
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I enjoyed the show. I can separate real life for entertainment. Some things irked me but overall what else is really popping that is scripted right now?
I think Gabby has a clause that says must show my 😆 at least once a show. She looked good.
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I really enjoyed it. I already knew I would. Mara Brock Akil is a beast. I hate that the fine dude wants to be around and treat her all good, but doesn’t want to commit. If they aren’t in a relationship what in the hail was he doing in her house when she got home from saving her suicidal friend? I fear married dude is going to be around a while. Too bad for poor Mary Jane. I’m with Mary Jane’s dad. I agree that mama needs to just go ahead and die already.
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I’m with Mary Jane’s dad. I agree that mama needs to just go ahead and die already.
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The mother is a real nagging pain in the azz.
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That Omari Hardwick is FINE
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Omari Hardwick is FINE by the way
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He is fine 😆 I probably would have broke him off too 😆 He would have had to take that ring off tho.
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Omari Hardwick is FINE by the way
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Yes he is 😆
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Omari Hardwick is FINE by the way
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😆 he damn sure is!!!
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Omari Hardwick is FINE by the way
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I agree but a fine ass married man ain’t worth going to hell for 😆
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Omari Hardwick is FINE by the way
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Omari lost weight! He was much finer? in the movie! He still look good tho.
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All I wanna know is gabby can u fill that tub up that you are in halfway so u can surfboard me…..chileeeee ..
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I think the show is well written and I enjoy Gabs in it. I’ll be tuning in every week
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Mara Brock writes for The Game too,right? her name sounds familiar…
I like how Oraquick is making sure to get their coins in. Seems like every commercial break was their advertisement. 😆 b/c you know there were kids in high school up watching last night too
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The show addresses infidelity, adultery and premarital sex as the norm for a successful black woman. This depiction is both disturbing and somewhat unrealistic.
She has two fine mens to fuck whats a girl to do 🙂
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She has two fine mens to fuck whats a girl to do????
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Same thing the boys do..
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I havent watched this show
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Gabbys has no range with her acting so basically she is sleeping with a married man (life imitated art) and she is financially helps her family…same roles she just added some knock off scandal flare…not interested
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It was a good show. Gabby fits Mary Jane to the Tee. I don’t understand what she meant when she talked with Oprah about missing out on Olivia Pope. but Good show
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?#BeingMaryJane tweets:
#BeingMaryJane tweet. I am not going to encourage fornication, adultery or homosexuality. Period.?
#BeingMaryJane Where is all this “class” you preach, Miss @itsgabrielleu? Sex in a gym shower with a married man is not entertaining.
@itsgabrielleu A strong woman knows her worth & will not be a pawn in a married man’s sexual chess game or his wife’s pain. #BeingMaryJane
@itsgabrielleu Look what fornication got u & @DwyaneWade. A child born out of wedlock to a jumpoff. An 18-year headache. #BeingMaryJane
Amen!!!!!
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Mary Jane is only the sum of her partners. 😆
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Let’s focus on her sleeping with a married man and that is that :croses arms: 😆
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Let’s focus on her sleeping with a married man and that is that
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😆 So let’s forget that her produces aired these old folks dying on air like a bootleg Titanic, forget her mama being annoying but about to die, forget her friend trying to OD on Flinstones like Fantasia (SHOUT TO NASIR)… WE FOCUSING ON THIS 😆
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Let’s focus on her sleeping with a married man and that is that
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Hail ain’t that the highlight of the damn show?
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Mara Brock writes for The Game too,right? her name sounds familiar…
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Mara Brock writes for The Game too,right? her name sounds familiar…
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Yup. She also did Moesha. The girl got story telling skills.
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Good Afternoon yall. I don’t watch this show, but yall make it seem like I should give it a chance.
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Many are wondering if the show is “life imitating art” as Union’s character is in love with and can’t let go of a married man. The show addresses infidelity, adultery and premarital sex as the norm for a successful black woman.
Yeah Tra it’s real that folks have messy relationships regardless to how successful they are.
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The show is good but the reality is some sistahs living that “I’m satisfied with being a HO life”
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The show is good but the reality is some sistahs living that “I’m satisfied with being a HO life”
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The debil is a liar!
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The show is good but the reality is some sistahs living that “I’m satisfied with being a HO life”
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Hell yeah and I know alotta sistahs willing 😆
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I couldn’t take the conversation between her and the man’s wife in her office. If my husbands mistress would-a answered all them questions with a YES I would kill my husbands ass after 1st dragging Gabby’s ass all through her office. 😡
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Gabby’s role is LIFE IMITATING ART? WHY? Cause she started out fucking a married man and now she’s engaged to that same man who just had a baby with his side chick. and you know something is wrong cause she ok with it.
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Like the show but couldn’t relate to the last scene when she gave into the married man in the gym shower 😡 I thought “damn that bitch is weak”
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Gabby got folk thinking this show is real in comparison to her real life with D. Wade.
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