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5.26.2009

moving beyond mail-order brides

Czerina Salud has a piece in the Huffington Post responding to Alec Baldwin's "Filipino mail-order bride" joke on The Late Show a few weeks back, and his subsequent half-hearted apology, adding a much-needed (and absent thus far) Filipina voice to the dialogue about this incident, and addressing the tired issue of jokes about the sexual currency of Asian women. Check it: If Hello Kitty Had A Mouth She'd Be Screaming By Now.