" We laud these women for their strength, but never consider what it takes to embody such strength. We don’t consider the interior lives of these women. It’s acutely felt when discussing black women, because they have been the pillars of our communities, the only thing that has kept us going.
But they weren’t all Clair Huxtable. And they never needed to be. They were and are fully human, and everything that comes with that. So if slaying this pivotal pop culture figure can be a means of helping us explore the inner lives of black women, then slay we must."
http://feministing.com/2014/10/24/why-we-need-to-get-over-clair-huxtable/
(a) this is from a while ago, before Bill Cosby's sexual assaults became so massively discussed
and (b) It probably is healthier to love her without idolizing her. I realize that I might have bought a dress because, on some level, it reminds me of the dress she was wearing in that scene where she offers to get Elvin coffee while being mad feminist, and so it's going to be a process de-mythologizing her in my mind.
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