Tanisha Taitt - Thought #6 - "Exotic"? ​Please.

​This is​ Tanisha and Thought #6. Often, when a young attractive woman of colour becomes part of an ensemble that is otherwise Caucasian, at some point -- either during the process or in reviews -- she will be referred to as "exotic". And apparently she's supposed to jump up and say "Thank you" for this. A woman of colour who acts in a play or a film is an actor. Not a ferret, not an iguana, not a Bengal tiger. An actor. And if the people who love to throw the word "exotic" around like it's the best thing in the world to be actually believed that, then their casting wouldn't be so bloody tokenistic.