I just watched The Big Sick and I now understand why the film received backlash on its representation of South Asian women.

The week when this film was released, opinion articles and reviews began to pop up on my social media timelines.   I try not to read up on movies I plan to watch in the theatre so I can go in with as few murmurs and judgments as possible, but I recall headlines specifically criticizing the way South Asian women were portrayed in the rom-com.